Allerton Court Hotel, Northallerton

The Allerton Court Hotel is a country house style hotel in Northallerton, the county town of North Yorkshire. The site had been used by the Home Office as contingency asylum accommodation, housing family groups (rather than single adult men) under the Yorkshire and Humber regional contract held by Mears Group. The Yorkshire Post and Gazette and Herald both report that the contract had run for several years before the Home Office termination notice^[1][3]Press.

In 2024 it emerged that Home Office officials had drawn up plans to replace the asylum families at Allerton Court with single adult male asylum seekers, sparking strong objections from Richmond and Northallerton MP Rishi Sunak and from North Yorkshire Council. The council wrote to the Home Office and to the hotel owner warning that any change of use could breach planning rules and trigger legal action^[2]Press.

The Home Office subsequently confirmed it would not be pursuing the single-male plan. Sunak said he was encouraged by the decision, the Harrogate Advertiser reported, with council leaders welcoming the climb-down as a victory for local representations^[2]Press.

In early 2026 the Home Office wrote to North Yorkshire Council again, this time to advise that it was terminating the asylum accommodation contract entirely. The Allerton Court Hotel will cease to be used as Home Office accommodation from the beginning of June 2026, with the families currently resident moved on under the wider 2029 hotel exit plan^[1][3]Press.

Using the Migration Observatory and NAO benchmark of £170 per person per night across the asylum hotel estate^[4][5]NAO, a 60-person family hotel run at full asylum occupancy implies headline taxpayer exposure of about £10,200 per night and roughly £3.7 million per year of live use.