A Farnborough local has said she is "shocked" over plans to place hundreds of migrants in luxury flats and has expressed concern over what it might mean for her community.
Home Office proposals to repurpose more than 100 new apartments into an asylum seeker centre for up to 300 migrants have been paused with immediate effect.
Gemma Lyons local Farnborough resident and mother said: "There are a lot of concerns and worries about this.
"I think that any group of group of 350 people from a war-torn country where all that they have experienced is violence is going to be a worry.
"We don't know who these people are, we don't know what trauma they have, we don't know if they are here to embrace our culture.
The brand new apartment complex in Farnborough was going to be used to house up to 300 asylum seekers
GB News"From what I have seen living in temporary accommodation myself it really shocks me how many of these people are middle-aged men.
"Four of five of them in individual single rooms. So I struggle to believe the stories that are just about women and children.
She added: "I attended Farnborough tech college which is directly opposite the block of flats, last year my course was in the evening and as a woman walking past a group of men that we know respect and value women the way that we do was already intimidating.
"I don't think that I would feel safe."
Gemma Lyons said that she thinks it is "unfair"
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"It's a difficult one because obviously these people do need somewhere to go but there has been no strategies have been put in place.
"I think it is a case of we've got to be seen to be doing something lets just plonk them there and forget about it."
MP for Aldershot, Leo Docherty announced this afternoon that the plans have been halted.
Writing on social media, he said: "Following my meeting with the Home Secretary last night, I have just received an update from him confirming a pause in the plans to place asylum seekers in Pinehurst Hill Side, Farnborough.
She said they have been "plonked" there
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"I am very grateful indeed to the Home Secretary for listening to my concerns, as well as those of Rushmoor Borough Council and local residents."
Gemma said: "It was quite shocking that the council made such a rash decision without informing or consulting anyone in the community.
"There has to be a strategy there has to be a plan. Are we going to have some sort of plan to integrate them into the community? To teach them the English way?
"Or are we going to have to conform to their ways?"
