Deputy prime minister Angela Rayner overruled a previous refusal by the planning inspectorate, which now paves the way for the construction of a new 1,700 spaces unit close to the existing prisons..

One of the planned prisons is on green belt land north of the current HMP Wymott and HMP Garth sites in Chorley, Lancashire, where residents say drones and fireworks already blight daily life.

In 2020, the MoJ - which is funded by the taxpayer- forked out £20,451 settling prisoner injury claims from inmates at HMP Wymott followed by £43,805 the year after and £35,734.59 in 2022.

A fourth self-inflicted death was recorded on 29 October at HMP Wymott, in Lancashire. In 2023 inspectors warned that accommodation there was cramped and “beyond repair”.

He met prison guard Stephanie Heaps, from Runcorn, while at HMP Wymott, with the pair beginning a relationship, and eventually marrying.

According to the Prisons and Probation Ombudsman, Trow died at HMP Wymott in Leyland on January 8 this year, nearly nine years into his 19-year sentence.

The huge structure will be built near Chorley in Lancashire despite the local council objecting to the plans in 2021 for a site in Ulnes Walton, which is close to prisons HMP Garth and HMP Wymott.

With Category B, 845-capacity HMP Garth and 1,192-capacity HMP Wymott and the new prison, this will mean more than 3,700 inmates across the mega-site compared to a village population of just 2,600.

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