Holiday Inn Flore, Northampton

The Holiday Inn at Flore is the Holiday Inn Northampton West M1 Junction 16, on the High Street in the village of Flore, just west of Northampton. Local press confirm that the hotel was previously used to house asylum seekers and Afghan and Ukraine evacuees between 2022 and 2023 before reverting to commercial operation, then returning to Home Office use again from November 2024^[2]Press.

Daventry MP Stuart Andrew published a letter to Home Secretary Yvette Cooper in November 2024 stating that he had been notified that the Holiday Inn Northampton West in Flore had begun accommodating asylum seekers only on the day of the change. He called the absence of any prior communication or consultation entirely unacceptable and asked that the Home Secretary provide regular updates to keep his constituents informed^[1]GOV.UK.

In September 2025 West Northamptonshire Council served Planning Contravention Notices on the owners of three Northamptonshire hotels used by the Home Office for asylum accommodation: the Ibis at Crick, the MK Hotel at Deanshanger, and the Holiday Inn at Flore. The notices gave the operators 21 days to respond, with failure to comply an offence under the Town and Country Planning Act 1990^[3]Press.

At the £170 per person per night Migration Observatory benchmark^[4], an approximately 150 room hotel run at full asylum occupancy implies headline taxpayer exposure of about £25,500 per night and roughly £9.3 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^[5]NAO.