Paris residents have reacted with fury to the building of new camps in the city that are set to be full of thousands of UK-bound migrants by next month.

It came as a £4m one designed primarily for vulnerable women and children reached completion in one of the city’s most upmarket districts.

Two wooden buildings out of five containing 24 housing units each have already gone up next to the Bois du Boulogne, the historic wood in the 16th arrondissement.

They are situated next to palatial apartments worth up to £3 million each – prompting intense anger from neighbours who say they will turn into a ‘new Sangatte’.

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Wooden buildings (pictured) containing 24 housing units each have already gone up next to the Bois de Boulogne, in the 16th arrondissement

Neighbours in the upmarket apartments say the wooden homes will turn into a ‘new Sangatte’ - a reference to the former Red Cross refugee centre near Calais

The new wooden homes and their proximity to the apartments in an artistic impression. A local businessman said: ‘These units have been forced on us with no respect for democracy'

The wooden buildings have been built opposite apartments worth up to £3million each – prompting intense anger from neighbours

The 16th arrondissement of Paris is one of the most desirable – and wealthiest – in the French capital.

It is the third richest district in the whole of France for average household income, and includes embassies, prestige museums and art galleries.

Multi-millionaires who live there include heiress Carla Bruni, who is also a supermodel, pop singer, and the third wife of former French president Nicolas Sarkozy.

Russian oligarchs, Arab oil tycoons and dotcom billionaires regularly purchase property there, as well as more traditional French families who are attracted by the parks and leafy avenues.

Some of the richest sports clubs in the world are situated in the 16th, including Paris St Germain football club and Roland Garros, were the French tennis open is playing every year.

The enormous Bois du Boulogne includes the world famous Longchamps racecourse, while the whole district is just a short commute to central Paris, and the Defense business district of the capital.

The mayors of municipalities bordering the Bois de Boulogne demanded the abandonment of the project on in March this year

The wooden housing project under construction in July this year next to Bois de Boulogne

Even during the construction phase, pictured, debated raged over the location of the homes

The buildings, pictured during construction earlier this year, will each house will contain 24 housing units

People walking through the parklands stare at the wooden buildings during construction

Two new camps are being set up in Paris, one in the heart of the upmarket 16th arrondissement area and the second in northern Paris

This is a reference to the former Red Cross refugee centre near Calais which become a magnet to thousands of migrants from around the world before it was shut down. A petition entitled ‘No to a Sangatte in the Bois du Boulogne’ has already been signed by 50,000 local people.

Claude Goasguen, a 16th arrondissement councillor, blamed the main Socialist city council for imposing the camp as part of its irresponsibly left-wing agenda.

Calling the settlement ‘unacceptable’ and a ‘huge mistake’, Mr Goasguen attacked city Mayor Anne Hidalgo, saying: ‘For political reasons, Madam Hidalgo wants to turn the Bois de Boulogne into a new Sangatte.’

A local businessman who asked to be identified solely as Etienne said: ‘These units have been forced on us with no respect for democracy, and will soon be filled with people who have no connection to the area at all.

‘There will be hundreds of them, and many more are likely to want to set up camp in the Bois du Boulogne. That’s how these situations develop – as we saw in Calais.

‘The prices of our homes are going to crash in value, and all kinds of undesirables are going to turn up. It is a disgrace.’ On Wednesday, Mrs Hidalgo said there would also be a camp mainly for men close to the Gare du Nord Eurostar terminal, from where high speed trains travel direct to London.

‘There will be two migrant camps, one for men only, and one for women and children,’ said Ms Hidalgo, a Socialist who is a close ally of President Francois Hollande.

Migrants have contentiously set up their own camps (pictured) in Paris near the Gare du Nord station. Now they will be given two official migrant camps

Ms Hidalgo said that up to 100 new migrants a day were currently arriving in Paris, and that the vast majority wanted to get to Calais, and then on to the UK.

Ninety per cent of the £4m Bois du Boulogne camp will be funded by central government, and the rest by the city council. Similar funding arrangements are being used for the other camp.

It comes as the right-wing council in Calais, 185 miles away, lobbies to destroy its own ‘Jungle’ refugee camp.

The main Paris camp is expected to go up in the Gare Dubois (Dubois Garage) site – a disused bus complex in northern Paris – and is set to create similar anger.

On Wednesday, Paris mayor Anne Hidalgo said there would also be a camp mainly for men close to the Gare du Nord (pictured)

Simone Durand, who owns a two-bedroomed apartment in the area, said: ‘It’s not just the effect on house prices we’re worrying about, it’s the crime and squalor.

‘As we’ve seen all over Paris, refugees have nothing, and the young men in particular can get up to all kinds of bad behavior.’ Serge Federbusch, a right-wing polemicist and fierce critic of the left-wing government running France, described the building of the camps as ‘cosmetic and derisory’.

He said that what was needed was secure borders, and an end to allowing asylum seekers to travel anywhere they wanted in Europe.

There are currently some 10,000 migrants sleeping rough in Calais, but leaders of the conservative Republic Party want their camp razed, or moved across the Channel to Dover.

This means that those opening in Paris will become immensely popular, and are likely to become a magnet for thousands more asylum seekers from all over the world.

The right-wing council in Calais, 185 miles away, is lobbying to destroy its own 'Jungle' refugee camp (pictured)

The French capital is already inundated with migrants who sleep rough in city parks, or under flyovers or railway bridges.

Riot police regularly destroy their illegal settlements, but it is impossible to move them on because even if they are dispersed in coaches, they almost always come back again.

Home Secretary Amber Rudd was in Paris on Tuesday, when she and her French counterpart, Bernard Cazeneuve, pledged ‘close co-operation’ in dealing with the growing migrant crisis. But there are fears that the French are becoming increasingly frustrated with having to deal with thousands of migrants who simply want to go to Britain.