OYO The Rock Hotel, Holywell Green

The Rock Hotel is set in the village of Holywell Green just off the M62 in Calderdale, West Yorkshire. The 27 bedroom property operates under the OYO budget brand, with a bar, restaurant and complimentary cooked breakfast aimed at travellers using the Halifax and Huddersfield corridor. The hotel was used by the Home Office for asylum-seeker accommodation until the April 2026 closure batch returned it to commercial booking.

The Halifax Courier reported that the Home Office confirmed The Wool Merchant Hotel in Halifax and The Rock Hotel in Holywell Green would no longer be used to house people who had fled their homes, with residents relocated as part of the April 2026 hotel-exit programme^[2]Press.

Yorkshire Live (Examiner Live) confirmed both Calderdale sites were among the eleven hotels named in the GOV.UK April 2026 announcement, with the closures projected to save nearly £65 million per year across the wider asylum estate^[3]Press.

Calderdale hosted multiple Home Office contingency hotels during the 2022 to 2026 expansion period, including the Wool Merchant Hotel in central Halifax. The Rock Hotel was the rural component of that cluster, with both sites named together by national and local press as twinned closures in the April 2026 batch^[1][2]Press.

At the £170 per person per night Migration Observatory benchmark^[4], a 27 room hotel run at full asylum occupancy implies headline taxpayer exposure of about £4,590 per night and roughly £1.68 million per year. That sits below the May 2025 NAO contract review average of about £5.84 million per year per hotel because the site is small by national standards^[5]NAO.