One week left to add your voice to stop the expansion of Campsfield. The Coalition to Close Campsfield and Right to Remain are working together to make a submission to the ongoing consultation process. Join us! Here are 5 things you can do.

Campsfield immigration detention centre, just north of Oxford, reopened last year with 160 beds, despite the opposition of the parish, district and county councils. Now the Home Office has applied for permission to more than double its size with new buildings and 240 more beds. They want to do this via a ‘Crown Development Order’, expressly designed to override the wishes of local people and the local planning authority.

The Planning Inspectorate is inviting representations on the proposal until 11.59pm on Friday 24 July 2026.

Here are five things you can do:

1) ’Have your say’ at the government’s Planning Inspectorate website.

2) Or submit by email to crownapplications@planninginspectorate.gov.uk, quoting the CROWN/2026/0000004 reference.

3) Send a hard copy submission by letter to:

Crown Development Case Team, Planning Inspectorate, c/o QUADIENT, 69 Buckingham Avenue, Slough, SL1 4PN

4) Prepare your own submission using Right to Remain’s resources. Please get in touch with Right to Remain Public Legal Education Officer ally[AT]righttoremain.org.uk if you have any questions about making a submission. 

5) If you are short of time, you can submit the short draft developed by the Coalition to Close Campsfield and Right to Remain using the web tool here.

You have until July 24th – just one week to go – to make your views heard. Add your voice!