Crowne Plaza Basingstoke (Black Dam)

The Crowne Plaza Basingstoke is a large IHG-branded hotel at Black Dam, Grove Road. It has been used for Home Office asylum dispersal accommodation and appears in 2025 protest coverage among the Hampshire asylum-hotel sites^[1]Press.

This profile is published with medium confidence on a limited source base. We do not currently have a source naming the accommodation provider, so — unlike some neighbouring sites — we do not attribute it to a specific contractor. We will expand the profile as further local press, council statements or Hampshire Police updates are confirmed.

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.

No site-specific cost figure has been published, so the following is an illustrative benchmark only. At the £170 per person per night Migration Observatory figure^[2], an approximately 200-room hotel at full asylum occupancy would imply order-of-magnitude exposure of about £34,000 per night. The May 2025 NAO contract review put the average per-hotel run rate across the portfolio at about £5.84 million per year^[3]NAO.