A camp for 600 asylum seekers is to ‘stay open until 2030’ despite assurances it would operate for no longer than 12 months.
Council chiefs claim they have uncovered documents that reveal a secret deal between two government departments to keep housing migrants at the former Army training camp in Crowborough, East Sussex.
It is understood the departments are the Ministry of Defence and the Home Office.
The first of up to 600 asylum seekers – all single male migrants – arrived at the camp in January, and residents have since taken to the streets in weekly protests.
Councillors said they had repeatedly sought
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