Crowne Plaza Basingstoke (Black Dam)

The Crowne Plaza Basingstoke is a large IHG branded hotel at Black Dam, Grove Road. The site was contracted to Clearsprings Ready Homes under the South East AASC contract for Home Office asylum dispersal accommodation^[2]Press.

This profile is published with medium confidence on the basis of one mainstream source. We will expand it as further local press, council statements, or Hampshire Police updates become available.

Wikipedia's overview of the 2025 anti-immigration protests in the United Kingdom lists the Crowne Plaza Basingstoke alongside other Hampshire asylum hotel sites targeted by demonstrations during the summer 2025 protest wave that followed the Epping Forest court ruling^[1]Press.

At the £170 per person per night Migration Observatory benchmark^[3], a 200 room hotel run at full asylum occupancy implies headline taxpayer exposure of about £34,000 per night and roughly £12.4 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^[4]NAO.