A second village is to hold a vote on whether to have a referendum to leave the UK in protest over plans to create a camp to house 1,250 asylum seekers in a former RAF base nearby. The Telegraph has more.

Barnham parish council in Suffolk is to invite villagers to decide on Saturday October 24th whether they should follow the lead of Piddington in Oxfordshire and stage a referendum on seceding from the UK.

Residents in the Domesday village of Barnham are up in arms over plans to convert its former RAF base into a camp to house 1,250 asylum seekers.

It follows Piddington residents' vote last month by 285 to 26 to "secede from the UK and pursue self-determination" over the plans to house up to 1,256 asylum seekers in the former Ministry of Defence garrison no more than half a mile from the village.

John Bauer, Chairman of Barnham Parish Council, admitted that although the referendum idea would be put to a vote of the village, there had been a "lack of enthusiasm" from some councillors at a meeting on Monday night to discuss the proposal.

He said some councillors were concerned that staging a referendum could "dilute" their campaign message against the asylum camp based on the potential damage to wildlife in the area.

The proposed site for the camp in Barnham lies within the Breckland Special Protection Area, an internationally designated wildlife zone.

It hosts more than 200 breeding pairs of stone-curlews, which are so endangered that habitat regulations dictate no development should take place within 0.9 miles of their nesting sites.

The West Suffolk District Council, which is opposing the plan, claims that it would be "unlawful" and "unsuitable" to construct an asylum camp on the site on ecological grounds.

Bauer maintained that a referendum would not undermine the village's campaigning against the damage it could cause to local wildlife including the stone-curlews.

"It's a powerful opportunity to show the strength of sentiment within the village and get it out there. It is something that the Government, who will make the decision, would find it difficult to ignore," he said.

"It could be fairly toxic for them politically particularly if there are more villages that join other than Piddington. I don't mind what methods we use to stop the plan but I don't think we should put all our eggs in the stone-curlew basket. It is a very powerful argument but we should not rely solely on that."

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