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The property was converted from a four-bedroom family home to a six-bedroom HMO through permitted development laws

It’s a quiet cul-de-sac in a leafy Nottinghamshire suburb – a picture of middle England. There’s a large green at the end, where dogs and children play around trees and plastic goalposts.

But in the midst of this tiny, unassuming close in Rushcliffe , among the family homes and pensioners’ bungalows, is a house in multiple occupation, or HMO, housing asylum seekers.

Such is the tense atmosphere hanging over the country that the street’s other residents would rather no one else know the HMO is there.

They fear a backlash from angry anti-migrant protestors and would rather keep the peace, which is why we’re not revealing the street’s name or naming the people livin

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