A Home Office ‘blunder’ involving crested newts could halt plans for a proposed asylum camp near an Oxfordshire village that has voted to leave the UK.
Records uncovered by campaigners opposed to housing over one thousand male asylum seekers at a former military site near Piddington have revealed numerous protected wildlife species are located on and next to the base.
This stands in contrast to an ecological assessment of the area undertaken by the Home Office – submitted as part of its planning application – in which it was alleged there was no evidence of protected newts, bats or reptiles on the site stopping
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