Prince of Wales Hotel, Stinchcombe

From the end of 2022 the Home Office used the then-closed Prince of Wales Hotel to house single adult male asylum seekers under its South West accommodation contractor, Clearsprings Ready Homes; residents were supported by the charity GARAS and a large local volunteer network^[1]. The hotel sits in Stinchcombe parish, and the arrangement drew political opposition from Conservative district councillors and the local MP, while the ward's Liberal Democrat and Green councillors were supportive. No specific resident headcount for this hotel has been published; Gloucestershire County Council recorded 440 asylum seekers across five contingency hotels county-wide in November 2023^[2]. The Home Office wound the site down about a year after it opened, dispersing the men nationally; the building was later refurbished and reopened as an ordinary commercial hotel in 2025^[3].

No per-hotel Home Office contract figure or resident headcount has been published for the Prince of Wales, so a site-specific cost cannot be stated. As an illustrative benchmark only, at the £170 per person per night figure reported by the Migration Observatory^[4], a roughly 39-room hotel at single occupancy would imply order-of-magnitude exposure of about £6,600 per night, or around £2.4 million a year, while it was in use. The only hard cost figure available is the ~£1 million commercial refurbishment in 2025, which is unrelated to the asylum period.