Stanwell Hotel (Mercure-branded), Stanwell, Surrey

The Stanwell Hotel sits on Town Lane in the village of Stanwell, on the south west edge of Heathrow Airport. The site is operated by Splendid Hospitality and trades under the Mercure brand, but has been block booked by the Home Office under the Clearsprings Ready Homes asylum accommodation contract for the South East of England.

ITV News Tonight broadcast a Paul Brand documentary on UK asylum hotels in September 2025 which included filmed access to the Stanwell Hotel. The programme detailed the site's ownership by Splendid Hospitality, its Mercure branding and its Clearsprings contract, and showed conditions inside the building with more than 100 single adult male residents^[1]Broadcast.

Get Surrey reported that firelighters were thrown at Surrey Police officers at a 2025 protest outside the hotel, with the force deploying public order units in response^[2]Press. Separately, Get Surrey reported that seven men resident at the site had been charged with burglary offences following a Surrey Police investigation, with cases listed at Crown Court^[3]Press.

At the £170 per person per night Migration Observatory benchmark^[4], a 110 room hotel implies headline taxpayer exposure of about £18,700 per night and roughly £6.8 million per year. That sits broadly in line with the May 2025 NAO contract review average of about £5.84 million per hotel^[5]NAO. Crown Court trials for the seven residents charged with burglary add ancillary public spend on top of the accommodation contract.