THE High Court has granted permission for a challenge to the use of RAF Wethersfield as asylum accommodation to proceed to trial.

Four asylum-seekers issued claims for judicial review against the Home Office after being accommodated at the controversial military site in Essex.

They claim that the Home Office has failed to provide a dignified standard of living and that the conditions and regime at Wethersfield is discriminatory and creates a real risk of a breach of the European Convention on Human Rights.

They also argue that the Home Office has failed to protect asylum-seekers from racial violence and harassment.

The claimants are represented by Deighton Pierce Glynn, Gold Jennings and Duncan Lewis.

The trial is to take place between July 23 and 26.

Emily Soothill, of Deighton Pierce Glynn, said: “Our clients were subjected to demeaning conditions at Wethersfield, in some cases for over seven months.”

RAF Wethersfield began housing migrants last July.