RAF Scampton residents raise safety concerns over Government’s migrants plan

The Lincolnshire airbase has previously been the home of the Red Arrows and the 617 Dambuster Squadron.

Residents in homes bordering RAF Scampton have reacted to plans to house hundreds of migrants on the base (Callum Parke/PA)

Residents neighbouring an RAF base which is expected to be used to house migrants have said they “don’t feel secure” and feel they are “nothing” to the Government.

Homeowners next to RAF Scampton in Lincolnshire, who live in former military housing, say they have received “absolutely jack-shit” by way of communication from the Government about its plans to house migrants on the site.

The plans are expected to be announced by immigration minister Robert Jenrick, on Wednesday afternoon, as the Government tries to curb the £6.8 million a day it spends on housing asylum seekers in hotels by housing them at both Scampton and RAF Wethersfield, in Essex.