Many residents oppose the plans

A proposed accommodation centre for hundreds of asylum seekers would put too great a burden on the local community, an independent report has found.

The report comments on plans to house about 750 asylum seekers at the former RAF Newton base, near Bingham, Nottinghamshire.

A number of agencies, including refugee organisations and the police, contributed to the document, which has been handed to the county council's cabinet.

It says the number of people who would be brought to the base would be too high.

It also says the proposals are unsuitable, unattainable and too heavy a burden on the local community.

Government trials

The community would suffer if key staff are taken away from the area to work at the centre, it says.

The study was considered by the council's cabinet at a meeting on Wednesday.

Council representatives will also address a public inquiry on the proposal, due to begin in Nottingham on 8 April.

Similar public inquiries will also be held into plans to build centres at the other two sites, on disused military land, in Bicester, Oxfordshire and at Throckmorton Airfield, near Pershore, Worcestershire.

The Home Office said last year that if trials in the three areas are successful, further centres could be built across the country.