The Stay Club Colindale

The Stay Club Colindale is a purpose built block on Charcot Road, near Colindale Underground station and Wembley Stadium. It contains 527 self contained studio flats and 48 study rooms, originally targeted at the London student market. Barnet Council briefings note that the site was brought into Home Office contingency use alongside other hotels in the borough, with the council commissioning two local voluntary and community sector organisations to provide outreach support across all five Barnet sites^[2]GOV.UK.

On 12 December 2022 the then Conservative MP for Hendon, Matthew Offord, tabled written parliamentary question 108169 asking the Secretary of State for the Home Department whether her department had designated The Stay Club at 16-18 Charcot Road, Colindale, NW9 5WU as an officially sanctioned asylum hotel^[1]GOV.UK.

The Home Office minister's reply followed the standard line used across all asylum accommodation questions of the period: the department does not publicly comment on individual hotels which may or may not be utilised, citing safeguarding. The question itself, however, is a primary public record naming the site by exact address and tying it to the asylum accommodation programme.

At the £170 per person per night Migration Observatory benchmark^[3], even partial use of the 527 studio block by the Home Office implies headline taxpayer exposure well into the tens of thousands per night. A conservative occupation of 200 units at that rate would imply about £34,000 per night and roughly £12.4 million per year, before contractor margin. The May 2025 NAO contract review put the average UK asylum hotel run rate at about £5.84 million per year, putting Colindale well above the national average on capacity alone^[4]NAO.