Labour plans to build more prisons by designating them as sites of national importance and bypassing local council planning.

Labour plans to build more prisons by allowing ministers to bypass the traditional planning process, aiming to tackle prison overcrowding in the UK. The party intends to designate prisons as sites of national importance, placing the power to approve planning decisions in ministers' hands rather than local councils. Labour claims this will help it create 14,000 new prison places by 2030.