The Roundhouse Hotel, Bournemouth

The Roundhouse sits at the eastern edge of Bournemouth town centre near the Lansdowne, a short walk from the seafront and from Bournemouth University. The 102 room property is part of the Britannia chain owned by Alex Langsam, the same group whose hotels at the Chine and the neighbouring Britannia on Meyrick Road make up the rest of the Bournemouth asylum cluster^[3]Press.

GB News reported in August 2025 that 304 rooms across the trio of hotels were in Home Office use, with all three properties closed to the paying public. The Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole council area sits within the Clearsprings Ready Homes South regional contract for contingency asylum accommodation^[1]Press.

From July 2025 the Roundhouse became the principal venue for the weekly demonstrations organised by the Bournemouth Patriots. Bournemouth University Buzz reported in November 2025 that the protests had reached the four month mark, having begun in mid July and continuing every Friday outside the front of the hotel^[2]Press.

Adjacent reporting in Dorset View on the 22 August 2025 protests at the Britannia Hotel on Meyrick Road documented rival pro and counter rallies in the same Bournemouth seafront cluster, of which the Roundhouse forms the easternmost point^[4]Press.

At the £170 per person per night Migration Observatory benchmark^[5], a 102 room hotel implies headline taxpayer exposure of about £17,340 per night and roughly £6.3 million per year. The May 2025 NAO contract review put the average per hotel run rate across the wider portfolio at about £5.84 million per year^[6]NAO.