Ramada Birmingham Solihull (The Square)

The Ramada Birmingham Solihull is a 145 bedroom hotel arranged on three sides of an historic bowling green, with fifteen meeting and conference rooms. The Caterer reported in 2012 that the hotel was acquired by SGS Hotels (UK), a subsidiary of the Indian Subhash Gulati Group, for £7.5 million^[2]Press. The Solihull Ramada at The Square is a separate site from the Ramada Sutton Coldfield (Penns Hall) at Walmley, which is also tracked on this site as an active asylum hotel.

Parliamentary Question records confirm the Home Office holds a commercial agreement with the Subhash Gulati Group for asylum-seeker use of the Ramada Hotel at The Square, B91 3RF, under the Serco regional asylum accommodation contract. The same record notes that hotels are used as a contingency measure to meet the statutory obligation to house asylum seekers while their claim for international protection is considered, with the Home Office citing higher than anticipated intake as the reason for hotel use^[1]Hansard.

Birmingham World grouped the Solihull Ramada with the Ramada Sutton Coldfield (Penns Hall) and the wider West Midlands hotel cluster used by the Home Office for asylum accommodation, citing the Crossroads television soap connection as a recurring theme in coverage of the area^[3]Press. The cluster has been the subject of repeated parliamentary attention, including from Sir Andrew Mitchell MP for Sutton Coldfield, although his closure campaign focused specifically on Penns Hall rather than the Solihull town centre Ramada.

At the £170 per person per night Migration Observatory benchmark^[4], the 145 bedroom Solihull Ramada at the asylum-typical double-occupancy of about 290 residents implies headline taxpayer exposure of around £49,300 per night and roughly £18 million per year. That is more than three times the May 2025 NAO contract review average of about £5.84 million per year per hotel, reflecting the Solihull site's large footprint^[5]NAO.