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Britain’s migrant madness is set to intensify with more than 20 communities already housing more than 1,000 asylum seekers.

Home Office records show five London boroughs are supporting more than 1,000 people.

And they reveal how towns and villages are already supporting more migrants than before – as Andy Burnham demanded a regional distribution of asylum seekers.

The local authorities supporting the most migrants within their communities – including in hotels – are Glasgow City Council, Liverpool (2,053), Coventry (1,712), Manchester (1,606), Belfast (1,607), Nottingham (1,538), Hillingdon (1,532) and Sandwell (1,500).

But analysis of Home Office records shows nearly every area in the UK has seen a sharp increase in asylum seekers.

The East of England has seen a five-fold increase, from 969 in the year to March 2020 to 5,661 in March this year.

The East of England has seen a five-fold increase, from 969 in the year to March 2020 to 5,661 in March this year.

And the South East of England has seen a sharp rise – from 834 in 2020 to 6,929.

In Windsor and Maidenhead, there were 3 asylum seekers six years ago. There are now 302. Meanwhile, in Milton Keynes numbers have rocketed from 10 to 450 over the same period.

Essex has also seen a huge increase. Braintree – home to the Weathersfield asylum camp – has gone from 0 in 2020 to 767 while Colchester, home to Britain’s renowned 16 Air Assault Brigade, has surged from 7 to 317.

Dacorum, in Hertfordshire, has soared to 365, compared to 2 six years ago.

But the Home Office figures lay bear how asylum accommodation providers have targeted areas with cheaper property prices.

The number of asylum seekers being supported in the North West of England has doubled from 10,508 in 2020 to 19,578 this year.

Number 10 has admitted moving asylum seekers into Middle class areas will cost taxpayers more.

A Downing Street source told The Telegraph: “Andy feels that the current system is unfair, and as a point of principle, he wants to see a redress of the distribution.

“We all want to see fewer people crossing to the UK and a decreased use of all asylum accommodation, but it needs to be fairer in the meantime.

“He acknowledges that it would cost more money to do it more fairly, but that is what we need to do.”

Around 90% of councils now have asylum seekers living in their areas.

Almost 70,000 migrants are living in so-called dispersal accommodation – houses, flats and bedsits.

This number is set to increase as the Home Office closes asylum hotels.

Almost 40,000 people will eventually be given taxpayer-funded homes in London, the East of England, South East England, and South West England, according to Home Office documents revealed by the Express.

Almost 70,000 have already been housed, with another 66,021 waiting for accommodation.

The North East of England and the North West have both surged past their targets but need to find additional homes for 2,000 people between them. Service User Demand Plans – which set out how many people can be accommodated in each region – allocated 114,791 spaces for asylum seekers across the country.

Plans to move more than 1,000 asylum seekers into an Oxfordshire village would threaten residents’ human rights, security and way of life, a local councillor has said.

Mike Nixon, the vice-chairman of Piddington Parish Council, said: “We’re still very frustrated. Andy Burnham did say that he’s willing to listen, but we’ve had no formal contact. No consultation, nothing from the Home Office.

“We felt that the only way of making our views felt was to say ‘well if we’re not going to be listened to, what’s the point of being a part of the country?’

“It’s a symbolic vote, and I suspect the village will overwhelmingly vote in favour, because we aren’t being listened to, despite what Andy Burnham said [on Tuesday].

“I think that will send another powerful message to the Government that they can’t just push people around. We have human rights, and our human rights to a family life are being affected by the proposal of this Government.”

Mr Nixon, 63, said the plans are flawed, posing risks to both residents and asylum seekers, and because they undermine Mr Burnham’s devolution plans.

The Government wants to use the Urgent Crown Development Process which allows Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood to bypass local planning authorities.

Mr Nixon said: “It bypasses all of the planning consultation, [which] goes completely against Andy’s devolution to the postcodes concept. It’s a diktat from Whitehall, a top-down imposed scheme, take it or leave it. I’d rather we’d leave it, thank-you.

“The village doesn’t have any infrastructure. We have a playing field for children and walking dogs that’s literally propped up to one of the fences of the proposed camp.

“There’s a huge amount of concern and worry. There’s 46 children out of a population of 370, the parents are extremely worried. Children can walk around, go to the local park, parents are now saying that’s going to completely change, as is their way of life.

“A lot of the elderly population in the village are equally worried about security and people are talking about either moving out, if they can, but that would be a problem, because, obviously, [the plans] would have an effect on the ability to sell properties.

“Or getting industrial level CCTV and surveillance to try and give some reassurance to the residents. I think it will have a dramatic effect on the whole village and the way we live our lives.”

Addressing his concern for the asylum seekers themselves, Mr Nixon said: “Having a mass camp of 1,250 male asylum seekers next to a village of 370 is just illogical, it makes no sense, from a security standpoint or a cost standpoint.

“There’s no benefit to the community here, and there’s no benefit to the asylum seekers, because they need a lot more support than they’re going to ever get at that particular site.

“They need services, facilities, lawyers, mental health services, which they’re clearly not going to get on a disused ex-military storage site.

“One of the things that concerns us is that the site’s right next to a MoD [Ministry of Defence] training facility where every weekend they simulate gunfire and explosions.

“If you’re a refugee coming from a war-torn area and you’re suffering from PTSD, do you think housing someone next to an Army training site is a sensible idea? We don’t.”