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Shabana Mahmood has ordered migrant home providers to stop taking over entire estates following widespread outrage. Locals in Stoke Heath, Shropshire, blasted plans to move 83 asylum seekers into a single estate of 21 newbuilds worth £250,000.

Neighbours said they were told the new development would be affordable housing for people on the housing register. But the Home Office’s asylum accommodation providers, Serco, Clearspring Ready Homes and Mears are taking over estates, flat blocks and housing estates.

The Daily Express also understands there is a similar, though smaller, development in Suffolk.

Four brand-new £300,000 townhouses were given to asylum-seeking families. Entire flat blocks have also been taken over in Huddersfield, Chelmsford and Bournemouth, it is understood.

And asylum chiefs faced fresh fury after twenty-one smart newbuild houses in Stoke Heath were earmarked for asylum seekers.

One migrant family is understood to have already moved into one of the properties, with more expected to arrive in the coming weeks.

Reform’s home affairs spokesman Zia Yusuf said: “The news from Stoke Heath that you can simply break into Britain and get to live in a brand new £250,000 house for free is simply the latest betrayal from the Labour-Conservative establishment.

“They have failed our nation and opened the door to hundreds of thousands of unvetted illegal migrants who live a life of luxury at the cost of the British taxpayer.

“Unbelievably, Conservative councillors even voted to recognise Shropshire as a council of sanctuary.

“Only Reform will end this insanity by replacing asylum housing with detention centres, securing our borders, and deporting all illegal migrants”.

Shadow Home Secretary Chris Philp said: “Entire brand-new housing estates are being given to illegal immigrants as British families face high housing costs and social housing waiting lists.

“This disgraceful decision is a slap in the face to local youngsters who can’t afford these homes. This plan should be urgently cancelled.

“Keir Starmer has presided over record small boat crossings and an asylum accommodation bill that keeps climbing. Labour do not have the backbone to tackle this issue.

“The Conservative Party will deport all illegal immigrants and speed up removals so we wouldn’t need to house them in this way. Sadly, Labour refuse to take the action needed to end this farce.”

A family living in the street said they “hate” it and want to leave.

Muhammad Nadeem, his wife Shamaila, and their four children fled their native Pakistan two years ago and settled in the UK.

They rented a house in Stockport, in Greater Manchester, where Muhammad qualified for a work visa and got a job as an Uber driver.

When the visa ran out, they applied for asylum but were forced from their home and into a hotel while their application was processed.

Mr Nadeem said his family have been threatened by yobs.

“I am diabetic, I don’t have a GP here, and the shops are miles away.

“If my bread goes out of date, what do I do? It’s a £10 taxi ride to Asda and £10 back. If I need only bread, it will cost me more than £20.

“What do I do? The Home Office gives us £295 a week for six members. Most of our money goes on taxis.

“This is no good for us this place. It’s too rural. I have diabetes and back pain.

“We now have security guards outside, but we don’t feel safe. We don’t want to be here.

“It is not suitable for us, it is too far for jobs, shops and schools.

“We’ve been here 15 days and we stay inside most of the time.

“We left Pakistan because of threats to our family and now we have it here.

“We can’t go to the park, we’re scared. The mobile signal is no good so the police gave me an alarm.

“We pull the strap if there are any problems, and the police or security come. They gave my daughter a small one.”

Serco, the outsourcing company responsible for housing asylum seekers and migrants in the West Midlands, said: “We work under the direction of the Home Office, who decide where ­people are placed, based on overall national demand.

“The Home Office determines how many people are to be accommodated in each local authority area and instruct us accordingly.”

The Home Office said: “This Government is restoring order to the system by making record levels of asylum decisions, cutting claims by 12 per cent and increasing removals of illegal migrants by 41 per cent.

“We are working closely with local authorities to ramp up the closure of asylum hotels across the UK.

“Hotel numbers have more than halved since their peak and instead we are scaling up the use of large, basic accommodation for illegal migrants to reduce community impact.”