Glen Parva extension plans
Glen Parva Young Offenders Institute in Leicestershire is inviting residents to come and find out more about plans to extend the prison.
Glen Parva currently houses about 800 young offenders, up to the age of 18.
Leaflets have been delivered to nearby residents, outlining plans to extend the site to accommodate a further 360 young offenders.
Public exhibitions are being held this week at the Memorial Hall on Dorothy Avenue in Glen Parva for residents.
Capacity Building
The Capacity Expansion programme is one of the biggest building programmes being undertaken by government. In fact, it’s one of the biggest building programmes in Europe, probably beaten only by the Crossrail and Olympic developments in Britain. And by the time the Olympics kick off in 2012, the Prison Service will have more than ten thousand extra places – 10,226 to be precise – against the total at the start of 2008.
A total of 3,012 new places have been delivered to date (as of 10 June 2008), and an extra 1,206 are on target to open before the end of 2008 – but these impressive figures are just the beginning.
The places delivered so far have been sourced by a combination of methods including: the first new public sector prison for some years at HMP Kennet; new-build house blocks; pre-fabricated rapid-build units; refurbishments and cell reclaims. But with 65 individual projects in the programme, the bulk of the new places are yet to come.