Three councils in the areas where accommodation centres for asylum seekers are to be sited have raised concerns about their suitability.
Home office minister Lord Rooker announced last week the government was to apply for planning permission to build centres at three sites: the Defence Storage and Distribution Centre in Bicester, Oxfordshire; RAF Newton, Nottinghamshire, and Throckmorton Airfield in Worcestershire.
But Throckmorton local councillor and resident Liz Tucker said the move would be "ghettoising people into the middle of nowhere".
It is envisaged there will be around 750 people housed in the centre but Tucker warned that Throckmorton only had a population of 170, of whom 30 were in a residential home for older people.
The facilities in the village amounted to a post box, telephone box and parish shed, and the nearest village shops were two miles away, she said. "We are simply saying Throckmorton is not a suitable place."
Meanwhile, Nottinghamshire council leader, Mick Warner said he also had doubts about RAF Newton's suitability.
"It is remote and although the government has said that facilities will be provided on-site it seems inevitable that there will be implications for our services such as education, social services and transportation, as well as for health services, and so on," he said.
He urged the Home Office to talk with the council and other service providers to explain their plans, but also to hear their views.
Oxfordshire Council leader Keith Mitchell raised similar concerns, saying a large number of asylum seekers would be placed in an "isolated rural location without access to good transport or community facilities".
It was also unclear whether children's education would be provided in schools or on-site, according to deputy leader of the council Margaret Godden.
"Clearly there are benefits for asylum seekers' children integrating into a community school and having the opportunity to learn English but there will have to be resources made available if this is the government's plan," Godden said.
Other organisations have also voiced concerns. Chief executive of the Refugee Council Nick Hardwick said: "The experience of similar centres on the continent, which are away from urban centres and where everything is provided on-site, is that asylum seekers become very isolated and institutionalised and those who are allowed to stay have huge problems integrating."
The Home Office is continuing to evaluate sites in Glamorgan, Edinburgh and Lincolnshire, as they are looking for a fourth centre. A Home Office spokesperson said the trial would work alongside the existing dispersal system. But, if the centres proved successful, the idea could be rolled out to around 15 centres.
