Home Office curate Anna Turley has said the authorities is sticking with plans to accommodate asylum-seekers connected erstwhile subject bases contempt protests from section residents.
She told the BBC the government's precedence was to guarantee asylum-seekers were looked aft successful a "secure" and "appropriate" place.
That included disused Ministry of Defence properties due to the fact that they had on-site facilities and were "more contained," she added.
But campaigners successful areas earmarked for asylum centres person said tiny communities with constricted infrastructure would not beryllium capable to header with ample numbers of people.
There person been protests successful Piddington, Oxfordshire, implicit plans to location much than 1,000 asylum seekers astatine a tract adjacent the village.
Mike Nixon, the vice-chairman of Piddington Parish Council, said determination was a "huge magnitude of interest and worry" among residents and that an asylum centre would person a "dramatic effect" connected the mode they lived their lives.
The connection has prompted Piddington to clasp a symbolic independency referendum, asking its 400 oregon truthful residents if they privation to stay portion of the UK.
Nixon said: "We're inactive precise frustrated. Andy Burnham did accidental that he's consenting to listen, but we've had nary ceremonial contact. No consultation, thing from the Home Office.
"We felt that the lone mode of making our views felt was to accidental 'well if we're not going to beryllium listened to, what's the constituent of being a portion of the country?'"
The authorities has promised to extremity the usage of hotels for asylum seekers, announcing connected Wednesday that a further 13 crossed England had been closed.
It plans to usage erstwhile subject sites alternatively with 2 already up and moving - RAF Wethersfield successful Essex, and Crowborough Training Camp successful East Sussex.
In June, it announced proposals to unfastened 3 more, including the tract adjacent Piddington.
The 2 different planned sites are a erstwhile RAF basal successful Barnham successful Suffolk wherever determination were protests past week and RAF Linton-on-Ouse successful North Yorkshire where the area's Labour mayor said it was "simply the incorrect place".
Defending the proposals connected BBC Breakfast, Turley said the nationalist wanted the authorities to extremity the usage of hotels, pointing to however an "iconic" edifice successful Blackpool, the Metropole, was nary longer being utilized to accommodate asylum-seekers.
She said it sent "an important message" that the authorities wanted the edifice to beryllium portion of Blackpool's future.
"The precedence is to guarantee we look aft asylum seekers successful a unafraid spot that is much due and we bounds the interaction connected communities."
Asked what she meant by secure, she said: "Examples we are looking astatine is erstwhile subject bases and we person 2 up and moving and perchance different three.
"They person have facilities connected tract and are much contained and it limits the interaction connected on communities.
"We are looking astatine different sites specified arsenic erstwhile concern sites, pupil accommodation - accommodation that is much more due than hotels."
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