Northeye Cancelled/never opened
Large site · Bexhill-on-Sea, East SussexFormer prison site acquired by the Home Office and identified as a potential large asylum site, but never brought into use; later transferred to Homes England for housing redevelopment.
Nearby schools
Nearest school: Little Common School (Primary), 0.17 miles in a straight line. There are 2 open schools within one mile and 9 within two.
Straight-line distances to open schools in the DfE Get Information About Schools register, shown as objective context. In 2026 the government said asylum accommodation should not be sited close to schools and nurseries; that guidance names no official distance, so these figures are not a measure against any threshold.
Local asylum coverage
- Bexhill Northeye: Homes England 'cannot guarantee' recovery of £15m spent on former prison site
- Northeye: Planned migrant camp in Bexhill set for new homes
- Investigation into the acquisition of the Northeye site for asylum accommodation - NAO report
- Asylum accommodation: Dysfunctional culture at Home Office must be confronted
- Bexhill: Government scraps plans for Northeye asylum camp
- Home Office transfers disused prison site to Homes England
Recent local coverage of asylum accommodation, via Google News. Headlines and publishers shown verbatim.