Planned asylum seeker site near Hampshire village 'like open prison'
by Jamie Grierson Home affairs correspondent from on (#5BDT9)
Anger over government proposal to house up to 500 people in cabins on MoD land beside Barton Stacey
The government has been severely criticised for a proposal to house up to 500 asylum seekers in temporary buildings akin to an open prison" next to a small Hampshire village.
The plans to construct cabin-style accommodation on former Ministry of Defence land near Barton Stacey, close to the A303 trunk road, follow a series of damning reports on conditions at two former army barracks sites in Kent and Pembrokeshire being used to hold up to 600 asylum-seeking men.
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