Labour’s plan to move strange migrant men into bungalow on our quiet cul-de-sac will leave us too scared to let children out to play, say neighbours

Neighbors of the bungalow, which will host immigrants as part of the government’s ‘dispersal’ plan, fear that the street will be unsafe for their grandchildren.

The Daily Mail revealed on Saturday that Labour’s pledge to close all 200 migrant hotels by 2029 would actually mean asylum seekers being moved to residential streets across the country.

A leak from Whitehall has revealed that two homes in the village of Walderslade, a suburb of Chatham in Kent, are among around 37 homes in the leafy Tonbridge and Malling council area that are likely to be needed to house refugees in the coming months.

Further investigation showed that two North London businessmen separately purchased houses in Walderslade late last year; They were previously believed to have rented these homes on a long-term basis to Home Office contractor Clearsprings.

At the same time, an Afghan refugee living in the village of Laleham in Surrey was arrested while wandering outside a primary school. It emerged that he was housed in a similar ‘Multi-Professional House’, which was also purchased from a London businessman last year.

Residents in Walderslade, who had previously expressed concern about two households of six migrants arriving on their doorstep, have now spoken of their growing concern.

In the longer of two cul-de-sacs, in this case a bungalow, where Home Office migrant housing contractor Clearsprings has a long lease, lives 74-year-old disabled widow Jan Howard.

The grandmother and retired accountant, a minute’s walk away, said: ‘I have two young grandchildren who come here and visit me on my own at various times of the day and evening and I know what some people do.

A leak from Whitehall has revealed that two homes in Walderslade village are among around 37 homes in Tonbridge and Malling borough council that could be needed to house asylum seekers.

I won’t feel safe about them coming here anymore.

‘This road is a community. Everyone helps everyone else and sometimes I accidentally leave my keys at the door but someone always knocks on the door and brings them to me.

‘Immigrants shouldn’t come here’ While processing we were told there would be six in the house, then another batch would come. So we’ll never recognize the people who walked in.

‘And we’re all worried about Ernie, the old man who lives right next door to the house in question. He’s lost his wife recently, he’s vulnerable and he can do without all this.’

Carer Sara Ryder, 59, who has three grandchildren and lives seconds away from the converted bungalow, said: ‘We are so upset because we have grandchildren and we don’t know who is coming.

‘The grandchildren played on the street, but that won’t happen anymore.

‘We estimate that when the immigrants arrive they will be released at midnight.’

Her friend Sue Birch, another carer who has lived in the cul-de-sac for 22 years and has five grandchildren, said: ‘Usually it’s just the property owners here, we’ve never had anything like this before.

‘There are places that are more suitable, for example in the center of Chatham, where thousands of flats have been built and there are facilities for such people.

‘What will they do here? They are boys and I worry they will wander around checking us out and harassing us.

‘Do those who established this order want to live next to them?

‘I don’t know who to vote for, I don’t know who we can trust. There is no basis for anything anymore; It’s completely out of our hands.’

Glynis Coughlan, 68, married to retired driving examiner Peter, lives a few doors down from the migrant bungalow on her street and works as a full-time carer for her disabled son Benjamin Fuller, 36.

Glynis Coughlan said she was ‘concerned about the arrival of immigrants because we don’t know what kind of people they are and how they will react to us’.

Almost all of Clearsprings’ huge profits go to former teenage disco and caravan park king Graham King

Ms Coughlan said: ‘When we moved here it was specifically because we felt the whole neighborhood was a safe environment.

‘Nobody comes here unless it’s necessary, and we wander around here a lot; We take our son Benjamin, who has cerebral palsy, out on his sit-on scooter.

‘We are worried about the arrival of immigrants because we do not know what kind of people they are and how they will react to us.

‘And we feel really uncomfortable because we expected them all to be men.

‘There are better places for immigrants; for example, the closed Pontins holiday camp at Camber Sands on the coast, an hour’s drive away.

‘They could have had this accommodation, they would have had their own rooms in the chalets… I voted for Reform at the last election. Now I’ll definitely do it again.’

His son Benjamin Fuller, who was riding his mobility scooter, added: ‘It’s terrible. I feel defenseless. I get upset quite easily, I am depressed and anxious.

‘And this was done in a very insidious way, without consulting the people it would affect.’

Almost all of the huge profits made by Clearsprings, which holds the Home Office contract to host migrants in southern England and Wales, go to former youth disco and caravan park king Graham King.

The money he earns from asylum seekers reaches a staggering figure of almost £100 million a year and it is predicted that King will become the immigration industry’s first billionaire.

Clearsprings did not respond to requests for comment.

The Home Office maintains that its policy of closing migrant hotels after numerous protests from neighbors was correct, aiming to house those dispersed in facilities such as former barracks.

But a Home Office spokesman refused to say how many of the former hotel residents should be moved to homes across the country, similar to the template proposed in Tonbridge and Malling.