The BBC also reported that Wealden District Council leader James Partridge said housing asylum seekers at the Crowborough site was the wrong decision, adding the authority was considering a legal challenge. 

Speaking to the BBC, he also added: “Whilst we know a lot of people will be angry, frightened and worried about this, we’re going to have to try and find a way to make the best of it and certainly not make matters worse.

“I hope everyone will come together in the way we did when the Afghan families and Ukrainian refugees arrived.”