Dubrovnik Hotel, Bradford
The Dubrovnik Hotel is a small hotel on Oak Avenue in Manningham, Bradford. On 12 August 2026 the Home Office named it as one of thirteen asylum hotels “exited and returned to local communities”[1]. That announcement is the only primary-source record this profile rests on: no published source establishes when asylum use at the building began, how many people were accommodated, or which accommodation contractor operated it.
Background
The closure was announced as part of the Home Office’s programme to reduce its use of hotels for asylum accommodation, alongside twelve other sites across England[1]. Naz Shah, the Labour MP for Bradford West, welcomed the building’s return, saying it could “once again be enjoyed by the local community and visitors alike”.
What is not established. This page deliberately stops there. Searches of national and local reporting return no account of when the hotel began housing asylum seekers, no occupancy figure, and no named contractor. Commercial booking sites list the hotel as having 31 en-suite rooms, but a commercial room count is not a documented asylum capacity and is not used here as one. Where a figure has not been published, this register records it as unknown rather than inferring it.
Timeline
Timeline
Not established
Asylum use begins
No published source records when the hotel began being used as asylum accommodation. Recorded as unknown rather than estimated.
12 Aug 2026
Exited and returned to the community
Home Office names the Dubrovnik Hotel among thirteen asylum hotels exited and returned to local communities. Naz Shah MP welcomes its return to community and visitor use.
Cost analysis
No per-hotel Home Office contract figure has been published for the Dubrovnik, and its asylum capacity was never made public, so no per-site cost can be given. As a general benchmark, the Migration Observatory reported an average of around £170 per person per night for hotel asylum accommodation[2] — but with no occupancy figure for this building, that benchmark cannot responsibly be multiplied out into a total.
Sources
- Thirteen asylum hotels exited and returned to local communities · Home Office / GOV.UK, 12 August 2026
Names 13 asylum hotels exited and returned to local communities, including the Dubrovnik Hotel, Bradford.
- Asylum accommodation in the UK · Migration Observatory, University of Oxford, Aug 2025
£170 per person per day in hotels (2024/25 average); used for per-hotel estimates and food/utilities breakdowns.