Richmond Apart-Hotel, Liverpool

The Richmond Apart-Hotel sits at 24 Hatton Garden in Liverpool's Pride Quarter (L3 2AA), a few minutes walk from Liverpool Lime Street station. The Grade II listed building is configured to operate either as a 152 bedroom aparthotel or as 52 individual apartments. SERCO holds the Home Office contract for asylum-seeker accommodation in the North West and the Richmond is one of several Liverpool sites known to be used under that contract.

BBC News reported hundreds of protesters gathered near the Richmond Apart-Hotel during the summer 2025 wave of anti-asylum hotel demonstrations, with Merseyside Police deployed to keep the groups apart^[1]Press. PBS NewsHour reported the wider summer 2025 protests, including attempts by anti-asylum groups to storm asylum hotels, naming the Richmond Apart-Hotel in Liverpool among the focal sites^[2]Press.

Serviced Apartment News reported that the Richmond Apart-Hotel faced a licence review in 2024 over a serious crime link, after Merseyside Police raided the premises during pandemic restrictions and found over two hundred people present at a single gathering^[3]Press. The licence review concerned the operator's general management of the building rather than the asylum use specifically.

At the £170 per person per night Migration Observatory benchmark^[4], a 152 room asylum site implies headline taxpayer exposure of around £25,840 per night and roughly £9.4 million per year. That is well above the May 2025 NAO contract review average of about £5.84 million per year per hotel, reflecting the Richmond's large 52 apartment footprint^[5]NAO.