St Giles Hotel, Feltham

The St Giles Hotel sits on Hounslow Road, a few minutes walk from Feltham Station and the Heathrow tribunal centre. The site is part of the Hounslow contingency asylum hotel cluster set out in the council's 2024 lived experiences report, which catalogued cramped rooms, food complaints and limited outdoor space across the borough's designated sites^[1]Council.

Hounslow has been one of the most heavily used London boroughs for Home Office contingency hotels, second only to neighbouring Hillingdon. The St Giles fits within that wider Heathrow corridor cluster and the council's 2024 report names the site alongside the other designated hotels. Corporate Watch reported in 2023 that refugees were being housed in poor conditions at sites including the St Giles, naming the property as part of the Home Office contingency estate operated under privatised AASC contracts since 2012^[3]Press.

The Hounslow Herald reported that Hounslow Council issued a statement clearing up rumours about the St Giles Hotel after social media claims circulated that the site was about to switch from families and single women to all male asylum accommodation. The council statement said: This hotel will remain being for families and single women^[2]Press.

At the £170 per person per night Migration Observatory benchmark^[4], an estimated 300 residents at the St Giles implies headline taxpayer exposure of around £51,000 per night and roughly £18.6 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 Heathrow corridor scale of the property^[5]NAO.