Days Of Action Against Detention Profiteer
anon | 08.03.2009 11:33 | Migration
This is an invitation to take part in a phone blockade TOMORROW against detention profiteer, CgMs Consulting.
CgMs, a planning consultancy firm, have been selected by the Home Office to try and ensure that the proposed immigration detention centre near Bicester, Oxfordshire, acquires planning approval.
The next hearing is on the 12th March. Although they will already have drafted the plans,applying pressure before this crucial hearing (at which they will be making a presentation) will disrupt the process. If permission is denied or the decision postponed, CgMs will remain a vital player in the realisation of the project.
THE BICESTER DETENTION CENTRE
The Home Office's currently proposes to construct a 800-bed all male detention centre on ex-MOD land in Piddington, near Bicester. If built, it is reported that it would be the largest detention centre in Europe. This is the second time the govt. has sought to build one near Bicester, the first proposal being abandoned in 2005 - apparently due NIMBYs in uproar. The Home Office is trying to appease them this time by claiming that the centre will be the equivalent of a category c prison.
WHY CgMs?
CgMs have a history of exploiting the asylum process. They advised the government on the construction of Yarl's Wood and the conversion of Dungavel from a prison into a detention centre for migrants. They have in the past been contracted to advise on the development of numerous other UK detention centres.
THE PHONE BLOCKADE
Feel free to contact CgMs on the following numbers at anytime between the hours of 9-5pm tomorrow. They are listed in suggested order of priority:
1) Deb Stephens, Director, Planning
(In charge of the Bicester detention project)
Tel: 020 7832 1472
Mobile: 07912579223
2) Kirsty McCusker, Deb's secretary
Tel: 020 7832 0273
3) Kevin Goodwin, Company Secretary, Planning
Tel: 020 7832 1466
Mobile: 0776 7264 155
4) Erica Mortimer, Managing Director, Planning
Tel: 020 7832 1465
Mobile: 0776 7262 015
5) John Stockdale, Finance Director, Planning
Tel: 020 7832 1461
Mobile: 0778 5275 086
See
http://www.cgms.co.uk/people.php
for much more!
EMAIL ACTION, TUESDAY 10th MARCH: A full list of emails for convenient copy and pasting will go out here and on lists tomorrow.
The next hearing is on the 12th March. Although they will already have drafted the plans,applying pressure before this crucial hearing (at which they will be making a presentation) will disrupt the process. If permission is denied or the decision postponed, CgMs will remain a vital player in the realisation of the project.
THE BICESTER DETENTION CENTRE
The Home Office's currently proposes to construct a 800-bed all male detention centre on ex-MOD land in Piddington, near Bicester. If built, it is reported that it would be the largest detention centre in Europe. This is the second time the govt. has sought to build one near Bicester, the first proposal being abandoned in 2005 - apparently due NIMBYs in uproar. The Home Office is trying to appease them this time by claiming that the centre will be the equivalent of a category c prison.
WHY CgMs?
CgMs have a history of exploiting the asylum process. They advised the government on the construction of Yarl's Wood and the conversion of Dungavel from a prison into a detention centre for migrants. They have in the past been contracted to advise on the development of numerous other UK detention centres.
THE PHONE BLOCKADE
Feel free to contact CgMs on the following numbers at anytime between the hours of 9-5pm tomorrow. They are listed in suggested order of priority:
1) Deb Stephens, Director, Planning
(In charge of the Bicester detention project)
Tel: 020 7832 1472
Mobile: 07912579223
2) Kirsty McCusker, Deb's secretary
Tel: 020 7832 0273
3) Kevin Goodwin, Company Secretary, Planning
Tel: 020 7832 1466
Mobile: 0776 7264 155
4) Erica Mortimer, Managing Director, Planning
Tel: 020 7832 1465
Mobile: 0776 7262 015
5) John Stockdale, Finance Director, Planning
Tel: 020 7832 1461
Mobile: 0778 5275 086
See
http://www.cgms.co.uk/people.php for much more!
EMAIL ACTION, TUESDAY 10th MARCH: A full list of emails for convenient copy and pasting will go out here and on lists tomorrow.
anon