TLK Apartments, St Mary Cray

The TLK Apartments & Hotel building, at 36-50 High Street in St Mary Cray (Orpington), Bromley, has long operated as a serviced apartment hotel under TLK Serviced Apartments Limited. Since 2023 the building has been used as a Central Government funded asylum hostel rather than as a publicly bookable hotel.

Bromley Council's August 2025 statement confirms the hostel has been in situ at the TLK building for two years and is currently occupied by children, women and families only in temporary accommodation, awaiting a decision from the Government concerning their future immigration status. The council also stated that there are no current police investigations under way concerning residents, contrary to other reports circulating online^[1]Council.

News Shopper / This Is Local London covered the council statement, framing it as a denial of false online rumours about the demographics of the hostel^[2]Press.

The Canary reported a counter mobilisation in Bromley against a Great British National Protest demonstration outside TLK Apartments in Orpington on 22 August 2025, framing the event within the wider summer 2025 wave of anti asylum hotel protests^[3]Press.

At the £170 per person per night Migration Observatory benchmark^[4], an estimated 150 residents implies headline taxpayer exposure of around £25,500 per night and roughly £9.3 million per year. That is above the May 2025 NAO contract review average of about £5.84 million per year per hotel, reflecting the larger TLK aparthotel footprint^[5]NAO.