Highcross House (Highcross Hotel), Leicester

Highcross House sits on Vaughan Way in central Leicester. The site was withdrawn from public booking and contracted to Clearsprings Ready Homes under the East Midlands AASC contract for Home Office asylum dispersal accommodation^[1]Press.

On Friday 25 July 2025 an anti-asylum protest was staged outside Highcross House. The demonstration was livestreamed on YouTube and drew an estimated audience of 57,000 viewers, before being clipped and mirrored across social media platforms in the days that followed^[1]Press.

Leicester Stand Up to Racism organised a major counter-protest outside the hotel in response, captured on video by Leicester Media Online. Leicestershire Police deployed a public order unit to keep the rival groups separated, with mounted units and command overhead^[2]Broadcast.

At the £170 per person per night Migration Observatory benchmark^[3], housing around 120 residents implies headline taxpayer exposure of about £20,400 per night and roughly £7.4 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^[4]NAO. Ancillary public costs of the 25 July 2025 protest policing are tracked separately on the map popup.