Cheshunt Delta Marriott Hotel

The Cheshunt Delta Marriott is a large modern hotel and conference venue at Halfhide Lane in Turnford, Cheshunt, in the Borough of Broxbourne. The site sits inside the M25 ring just off the A10 Great Cambridge Road and was, before the Home Office contract, a significant Hertfordshire conferencing and wedding venue.

The Delta Marriott was taken into Home Office asylum accommodation use in December 2022. Broxbourne Borough Council has consistently described the placement as imposed without meaningful local consultation, and has framed it as the loss of a much-valued community asset and an additional strain on already stretched public services^[2]Council.

Broxbourne Borough Council served Planning Contravention Notices on the hotel owners, requiring information on the change of use, in advance of planned formal enforcement proceedings against the unauthorised conversion from a hotel to multi-occupancy asylum accommodation^[3]Press.

In August 2025, in the wake of the Bell Hotel Epping injunction won by Epping Forest District Council, NationalWorld reported that Broxbourne Council had formally resolved to pursue similar legal action against the Home Office and the Delta Marriott Cheshunt operator^[4]Press.

In early 2026 Broxbourne Borough Council announced that the Home Office had agreed to end the use of the Delta Marriott Hotel in Cheshunt for asylum seeker accommodation from mid-June 2026^[1]Council. Broxbourne MP Lewis Cocking welcomed the decision in a statement on his website, framing it as a vindication of the council and constituent campaign^[5]GOV.UK.

At the £170 per person per night Migration Observatory benchmark^[6], an approximately 220 room Marriott at full asylum occupancy implies headline taxpayer exposure of about £37,400 per night and roughly £13.6 million per year. The May 2025 NAO contract review put the average per hotel run rate across the wider portfolio at about £5.84 million per year^[7]NAO, so a large branded Marriott on the M25 corridor sits well above the national average.