Oxfordshire villagers to launch legal fight against asylum centre plan
by Rajeev Syal Home affairs correspondent from World news | The Guardian on (#79QQ6)
Parish council of Piddington, which symbolically voted to leave UK over plan, says it will absolutely' take legal action
Ministers will face a legal challenge over plans to convert a Ministry of Defence site near the Oxfordshire village of Piddington into accommodation for more than 1,200 detained asylum seekers.
It emerged on Thursday that Angela Rayner, the housing and communities secretary, had approved full planning permission, a decision welcomed by the Home Office, who want to end the use of asylum hotels.
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