MK Hotel, Deanshanger

The MK Hotel sits on the A422 Buckingham Road just inside Deanshanger, a large village on the West Northamptonshire side of the Buckinghamshire boundary. The site is around five miles from central Milton Keynes and is used by the Home Office as initial contingency asylum accommodation, distinct from the dispersed accommodation network managed elsewhere in the county under the Clearsprings or Serco regional contracts.

The Milton Keynes Citizen reported in 2024 that Deanshanger residents had complained the MK Hotel had been “secretly filled with asylum seekers” without prior consultation, with concerns raised about the lack of disclosure to the village, the impact on local services and uncertainty about numbers staying at the property^[1]Press.

MKFM reported in 2025 that the Great British National Protest group had organised a demonstration outside the MK Hotel on Buckingham Road, with attendees raising concerns about the Home Office contingency contract and reports from local parents about men from the hotel walking towards Deanshanger Primary School at drop off and pick up. Thames Valley Police Sergeant Lorna Clarke confirmed that officers had spoken to local residents and attended at the hotel but had not identified any criminal offences or risks to children at the time of the protest^[2]Press.

GOV.UK's residential property tribunal decisions register records a First-tier Tribunal Property Chamber case for the MK Hotel at Buckingham Road, Deanshanger, MK19 6JU, under the Housing Act 2004 and Housing and Planning Act 2016 in the context of houses in multiple occupation licensing. The tribunal decision sits with the wider question of whether long term contingency contracted hotels of this kind should be regulated as HMOs rather than as conventional hotels^[3]GOV.UK.

At the £170 per person per night Migration Observatory benchmark^[4], an approximately 50 room hotel run at full asylum occupancy implies headline taxpayer exposure of about £8,500 per night and roughly £3.1 million per year. That is below the May 2025 National Audit Office contract review average of around £5.84 million per year per hotel^[5]NAO, reflecting the smaller room count of the Buckingham Road property.