Britain’s biggest prison could be built near Jamie Oliver’s £6 million Essex mansion.
The celebrity chef lives in a picturesque village but the Ministry of Justice (MoJ) is proposing to build two ‘mega jails’ that can hold up to 3,430 male inmates on the site of a former RAF airbase nearby.
The 800-acre site is set to be “bigger than Lakeside” shopping centre, but locals say the narrow roads surrounding the village make it the “worst place you could find a prison”.