Barracks plan has locals 'deeply worried'

RESIDENTS in Inverness will protest against plans to house hundreds of asylum seekers in the city, with the community “deeply worried” about the plan.

- By Douglas Dickie

It was confirmed last month more than 300 single men will be placed in the Cameron Barracks, less than two miles from the city centre.

The plan has sparked outrage, with many locals questioning the wisdom of placing hundreds of men in is largely a residential area. A gathering will take place on November 15 in the city centre to protest the plans.

Organiser Innes Grant said he wants the event to be “peaceful” and “non-racist” but added that many locals “feel deeply worried about the prospect of 300-plus undocumented males being housed in Cameron Barracks and free to roam our streets unchecked”.

A Police Scotland spokesman said officers were “aware of a potential protest” and a “proportionate policing plan” will be in place.

Mr Grant told the Scottish Express he was involved with the SNP and the Yes campaign in the lead-up to the 2014 independence referendum.

But he left from the nationalist movement after being “made to feel very unwelcome” for raising concerns about mass migration.

He says has been moved to act after seeing the “crazy developments and horrendous outcomes of uncontrolled mass migration, illegal migration into, not just the United Kingdom, but the whole of Europe”.