IMPORTANT UPDATE:
Thanks to your support, the Home Office has confirmed to me that they WILL NOT be using the property in Waterlooville for asylum seekers or illegal migrants.
Thank you to the 10,000+ local people who signed my petition to stop these plans. We succeeded in getting this stopped. Together we campaigned and forced this U-turn. This victory was not possible without you. It is yours. The Labour Government is planning on housing illegal migrants in Waterlooville Town Centre.
July 2025:
I, alongside Conservative councillors on Havant Borough Council (HBC) have written to the Home Secretary and the Labour leader of HBC asking them to stop these plans for accommodation in London Road.
Shamefully, we have been informed that HBC did not respond to the consultation from Clearsprings, the housing provider, and HBC did not object to the proposals.
This is not good enough.
Housing illegal migrants and 'asylum seekers' in Waterlooville Town Centre is totally wrong. Our local services are already under strain. This plan will dump further pressure on policing, healthcare, and public infrastructure, all while ignoring the legitimate concerns of residents who have been left voiceless. Waterlooville families deserve better than to have their town centre used as overflow accommodation because Labour has lost control of our borders after scrapping the Rwanda plan.
Our town has undergone an amazing transformation and become a welcoming place to work, invest, shop, dine and play; decisions such as this will once again make our town centres no go zones for the patriotic, common-sense majority.
This site, in the centre of our town, is utterly inappropriate for migrant accommodation. It must be stopped.
If you agreed, demand an immediate halt to this plan. Please sign our petition to tell the Home Office and Havant Borough Council what you think.
Suella Braverman - Member of Parliament for Fareham & Waterlooville
- Councillor Gwen Robinson – Leader of the Conservative Party
- Councillor Andrew Briggs – Deputy Leader of the Conservative Party
- Councillor James Blades - Hart Plain
- Councillor Neil Bowdell - Cowplain
- Councillor Ryan Brent - Waterloo
- Councillor Ann Briggs - Hart Plain
- Councillor Caren Diamond – Purbrook, Chairman of Overview and Scrutiny Committee
- Councillor Liz Fairhurst – Bedhampton, Armed Forces Champion
- Councillor David Keast – Cowplain, Vice Chairman of Planning Committee
- Councillor Sarah Milne - Stakes
- Councillor Elaine Shimbart - Hart Plain
- Councillor Peter Wade - Waterloo
We will be submitting our petition to the Home Office and HBC and will hold onto the data you have shared for as long as this issue is relevant.
