A MEETING of anti-prison campaigners is taking place this weekend.

Members of campaign group SWAP – Stop Wethersfield Airfield Prisons – are meeting in Great Bardfield.

The group was formed in a bid to stop the Wethersfield mega prison plans.

The proposal would see two large prisons built on the Wethersfield Airfield site.

The group has already met at other villages in the area, such as Finchingfield.

Bev Ault will be attending the event with husband Mark.

She said: “Events like this are important at continuing to raise awareness of the prison and our group.

“A number of Great Bardfield residents expressed an interest in doing a gathering there, and we have since done a massive leaflet drop around the area and put up posters in the village.

“Areas like this would be overwhelmed with traffic if the proposals went ahead.”

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SWAP chariman Alan MacKenzie said: "We have estimated an extra 3,000 vehicle movements a day to the prisons, if not stopped - that’s after the construction phase when 80-100 HGVs a day would be trundling to the prisons, for years, whilst being built, through the small country roads.

"The MoJ has identified the main routes to the prisons as the B1053 - East to West - and the B1057 - North to South. The B1057 goes right through Great Bardfield village.

The meeting is on the School Green, near the Co-op at 11am on Sunday.