The Defence Secretary, Ben Wallace, has withdrawn the offer to the Home Office for the former RAF site at Linton on Ouse to be used for more than 1500 male asylum seekers.
The Defence Secretary, Ben Wallace, has withdrawn the offer to the Home Office for the former RAF site at Linton on Ouse to be used for more than 1500 male asylum seekers.
An action group was set up to overturn the plan citing many reasons why the site should not be used to house asylum seekers. Hambleton Council was also fighting the Home Office decision.
Ben Wallace has said that he has “obligations to do something else with the site."
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