WATCH: Crowborough resident tells GB News he can no longer sell his home due to migrant housing

Thousands of small boat migrants will be moved out of hotels and into old army barracks

Yes, that one again. Now, the plans this time will see the use of two barracks, one in Scotland and one in East Sussex

that will temporarily house 900 men from next month. Well, let's now speak with TV News reporter Jack Carlson, who is in Crowborough in East Sussex

which is destined to be one of the sites of one of those barracks. And Jack Carlson, I believe you have a guest who lives very, very close to the proposed site

over to you. Well, the beautiful field and the countryside that you can see behind us backs onto that training camp here

in Crowborough where, of course, up to 600 men. They say single men aged 18 to 65 could be housed here

from the end of next month. Plans to bring up to 90 a day here

keeping them here for 70 to 80 days before then more are brought in

Home Office say this is a temporary measure for the next 12 months

But let's speak to a Krober resident whose beautiful house he's left us into today

Thank you so much, Simon Brown. Just kind of, I guess, give us your immediate reaction to the plans

I think the phrase is very worried, to be honest. We were given assurances that the previous government had looked at Krober training camp as a possible option for illegal immigrants But after looking at it they said that it wasn fit for purpose The camp has been here a long long time They haven really invested a lot of money in it

It's not secure. So, yeah, the first reaction when I saw it on the news this morning

was, yes, really, really worried. And I guess that is a reaction, because has there been any consultation

There's local residents here from local councils or even government itself. Has there been any consultation on using this camp for this purpose

No, none whatsoever. Certainly not with us, certainly not with any of the neighbours that we socialise with. We've got a local WhatsApp group and there's been nothing on there at all

And I think that's where the very worried comes from, because they clearly haven't done the due diligence in terms of speaking to residents or looking at the camp

As I said, it's not a secure environment. It's not a military base in the sense of a lot of places around the UK where there are security, there is fencing, etc

It's quite an open area. It's used by cadets, it's used by school children during the summer months

and as far as I'm aware, it's not a secure site. So what are some of the worries

You mentioned the security of the site there What are other worries that you might have around I guess the number of men being brought here And as you were saying because it not secure Yes it the number 600 I think is what they were quoting in the press this morning

And the fact that they are all going to be young, probably younger rather than older

I know you've said up to 60s, but let's be honest. We've all seen the pictures and the videos of immigrants coming in on the beaches

they're going to be younger males. And we've all read the stories and seen the stories on television

about crimes that have been committed around the country. And that's really what I'm worried about

I've got family here, I've got friends and family in the local area

and we just don't know what these people are going to be like and how they're going to secure them

I think that's the main issue. If we know that they're going to be in there for a limited period of time

that they're going to be secure, that they can't wander off into the local town

then I'd feel a lot happier. But we've had no reassurance that that's going to be the case

Now, the Prime Minister says he's frustrated at the use of the asylum hotels

that he's determined to close all of them. He says, and the Home Office obviously are looking at military camps

as a way to move asylum seekers out of hotels. They would say that's the right course of action

Why is this area not the right course of action Because it doesn have the infrastructure that I think some of the other military locations might have As I said to you earlier it not and never has been a military base We been

here, we've been living here for 22 years. It's called Krober Training Camp and it's used for

cadet forces, as I said mainly, to come and spend two or three days at a time. It's not a secure

army military base. And that is the problem. And they clearly haven't done their due diligence

It smacks to me, and I said this to my wife this morning, it smacks to me as a

PR stunt. To make that camp secure they're going to have to spend

an awful lot of money. And just finally you were looking at

selling your house. How worried are you now about the ability to do that

We can't. We can't even consider it. I mean, we had a WhatsApp group going this morning

and that was the first thing I said to the neighbours, because we were looking at downsizing. We're both in our early 60s

and that's clearly not something that we can do. Nobody is going to buy this house

while there are going to be illegal immigrants housed literally 500 yards behind our house

Simon, thank you so much for joining us this afternoon and giving us his view as a Kroba resident

As you heard there from him, a lot of concerns, particularly Martin, around the idea that many of the residents here just haven't been consulted on this