Best Western Nottingham Derby, Sandiacre

The Best Western Nottingham Derby is a three-star hotel on Bostocks Lane in Sandiacre, Erewash, in Derbyshire. It has been in use as Home Office contracted asylum accommodation for more than three years, despite a 2022 commitment by then immigration minister Robert Jenrick that the contract would soon end. By early 2025 the property listed itself commercially as currently closed^[2]Press.

The neighbouring Novotel Long Eaton on the same M1 spur was taken into asylum use by the Home Office at the same time as the Best Western, but ceased asylum use in June 2024 and returned to public booking. The Best Western remained in asylum use, with Labour Erewash MP Adam Thompson saying he had repeatedly raised the case with ministers^[3]Press.

In January 2025 Erewash Borough Council voted to reject a motion to lobby the Government over the use of the Best Western Hotel as asylum accommodation, despite the continuing Reform UK led campaign at county level^[2]Press.

On 11 February 2025 the Reform UK led Derbyshire County Council voted by majority to write to local MPs demanding the Home Office set out a clear and public timeline for closing all asylum hotels in the county. The Home Office told Derbyshire Times in response that it remained committed to closing every asylum seeker hotel before the end of the parliament^[1]Press.

At the £170 per-person per-night Migration Observatory and NAO benchmark^[4][5]NAO, the Best Western Nottingham Derby running at 161 asylum seekers implies headline taxpayer exposure of about £27,370 per night and roughly £9.99 million per year of live use.