Holiday Inn Express Bridgwater (M5 J24)

The Holiday Inn Express Bridgwater M5, Jct. 24 is a modern budget hotel of roughly 138 rooms at Market Way, North Petherton, immediately south of Bridgwater. Home Office asylum accommodation across the South West is contracted to Clearsprings Ready Homes; the local council does not hold or publish hotel-level occupancy data^[2]GOV.UK.

The hotel was taken into Home Office contingency asylum use as part of the wider use of Somerset hotels for asylum accommodation. The precise start date and the number of residents housed at the site have not been published; the county-level reporting does not break figures down by individual hotel^[2]GOV.UK.

On 20 April 2026, Bridgwater MP Ashley Fox welcomed Home Office confirmation that the North Petherton Holiday Inn Express would cease to be used for asylum accommodation by the end of July 2026, with residents moved elsewhere as part of the national wind-down of asylum hotels^[1]GOV.UK.

No site-specific cost figure for this hotel has been published, so the following is an illustrative benchmark only. At the £170 per person per night Migration Observatory figure^[3], a roughly 138-room hotel run at full asylum occupancy would imply order-of-magnitude exposure of about £23,000 per night and roughly £8.6 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.