Shabana Mahmood bans asylum seekers from being housed near schools and nurseries

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Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood has introduced new rules banning asylum seekers from being housed in new-build homes or near schools and nurseries.The measures were brought in following a backlash over plans to house more than 80 asylum seekers in £250,000 new-build properties on a housing estate in Stoke Heath, Shropshire.However, the Stoke Heath scheme had already been approved before the new guidance came into force, allowing the plans to proceed.Twenty-one homes on the new-build estate in the rural Shropshire village have been earmarked for asylum-seeking families.

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TRENDING Stories Videos Your Say Conservative MP Mark Pritchard has condemned the development as "completely inappropriate"."Stoke Heath is an isolated rural location with very few public services," he said."This is the wrong location and at the wrong scale.

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I will fight these ill-conceived plans all the way."Shropshire Council has also written to the Home Secretary to formally object to the plans.A council spokesman...

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