Cladhan Hotel, Falkirk

The Cladhan sits on Kemper Avenue close to Falkirk town centre and has been used as Home Office contingency asylum accommodation under the Mears Scotland regional contract since 2022. The site is one of the larger central Scotland asylum hotels and continues to take new arrivals despite the wider government move to wind down hotel use.

From August 2025 the Cladhan became the focus of twice weekly anti asylum protests, with Police Scotland deploying public order officers to successive demonstrations^[1]Broadcast. By December 2025 STV News reported that Police Scotland had confirmed, in response to freedom of information request 25-3152, that 13 people had been arrested and 37 alleged crimes had been recorded in connection with demonstrations at the site^[2]Broadcast^[3]GOV.UK.

At the £170 per person per night Migration Observatory benchmark^[4], an active 110 room asylum hotel implies headline taxpayer exposure of about £18,700 per night and roughly £6.8 million per year. That sits broadly in line with the May 2025 NAO average of about £5.84 million per hotel^[5]NAO. The Police Scotland FOI confirms significant ancillary public order spend on top of the accommodation cost^[3]GOV.UK.