The location for a new £250m super prison in North Wales has been announced. The jail, housing 2,000 inmates, will be built at the former Firestone factory site on Wrexham Industrial Estate. The UK Government says it will create up to 1,000 jobs.
The Ministry of Justice says work to build the new super prison on the Wrexham Industrial Estate will begin next summer, pending approval.
A £250m investment has been secured, and the target is for the prison to be fully operational by late 2017.
In June, the UK Government announced that the £100m prison would be built in North Wales. London and the north west of England had previously been in the running for a new jail to house 2,000 inmates.
Wrexham Council put forward two sites, both on Wrexham Industrial Estate.
Privately-owned Kingmoor Park declared itself out of the running recently, leaving the Firestone site.
The Welsh Government owns the 108-acre site of the former Firestone factory. It was bought by the Welsh Development Agency in 1994.
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