County Hotel, Skegness

The County Hotel sits on North Parade overlooking Skegness seafront. The building was withdrawn from public booking and contracted to Serco under the East Midlands Asylum Accommodation and Support Services (AASC) contract, with ITV News Calendar putting the asylum headcount at around 64 men^[1]Broadcast.

In summer 2025 the Patriotic Alternative organised a protest outside the County Hotel. Lincolnshire Police made four arrests at the demonstration, including the arrest of a 12-year-old child, and processed the cases through custody and youth justice^[2]Press.

The leader of Lincolnshire County Council subsequently joined calls for a national ban on asylum hotels in the wake of the August 2025 Epping Forest court ruling, citing the County Hotel as a flashpoint^[1]Broadcast.

BBC Newsnight broadcast a feature on the County Hotel, including footage from the Patriotic Alternative protest and interviews with residents and councillors. The piece framed Skegness as a flashpoint for asylum hotel protest activity in eastern England^[3]Broadcast.

At the £170 per person per night Migration Observatory benchmark^[4], housing around 64 residents implies headline taxpayer exposure of about £10,880 per night and roughly £4.0 million per year at full occupancy. The May 2025 NAO contract review put the average per hotel run rate across the wider portfolio at about £5.84 million per year^[5]NAO. Ancillary public costs of the 2025 protest policing and arrests are tracked separately on the map popup.