Arrigadeen Nursing Home, Clevedon

Arrigadeen Nursing Home Limited operated a CQC regulated nursing home at 20 Cambridge Road, Clevedon (BS21 7HX) for older residents. Following closure of the care business, the property changed hands and previous planning permissions to convert the site into a series of houses and flats lapsed^[3]GOV.UK.

In early 2022 the property was acquired by Lindley Investments, a housing firm specialising in dispersal accommodation under contract to the Home Office. Lindley submitted a fresh planning application to North Somerset Council to convert the building into a 21 room house in multiple occupation rather than the lapsed mixed houses and flats scheme^[2]Press.

ITV News West Country reported in March 2022 that the property would be used to house up to 21 asylum seekers described as young single females and small families with young children seeking refuge. Lindley Investments told ITV the residents would be provided with safe and high quality accommodation in a quiet area where they can seek jobs and apply for visas, framing the site as the kind of HMO conversion that the Home Office and its prime contractors increasingly rely on as an alternative to hotels^[1]Press.

The Home Office Asylum Accommodation and Support Services contracts in the South West are held by Clearsprings Ready Homes, with subcontractors such as Lindley Investments acting at site level. The same model has been used to convert other closed care homes (for example The Limes in Dartford) and former office blocks (such as King William Court in Chelmsford) into bulk dispersal capacity.

At a typical HMO dispersal benchmark of about £20 per person per day, a 21 person Lindley HMO implies roughly £420 per day or about £153,000 per year, an order of magnitude cheaper than running the same head count through hotels at the £170 Migration Observatory rate^[4]. The May 2025 NAO contract review identifies care-home and office-block conversions as one of the main routes by which the Home Office is trying to drive its £15.3 billion ten-year accommodation budget down^[5]NAO.