PLANS for a new prison in Essex are to be put on show in South Woodham Ferrers.

The Ministry of Justice wants to build a 1,500 people training prison on the site of the former Runwell Hospital in Runwell Chase.

The site falls within Chelmsford Council’s planning area.

The council will now check the application to make sure it has all the relevant information which will take about a week.

It will then be registered and published on the council’s website and copies available to view at the council offices in Chelmsford and the South Woodham Ferrers Community Information Centre.

The council will be arranging a public meeting at a later stage.