The 200-acre plot will be turned into Facebook's own company town, complete with supermarkets, hotels and homes for 10,000 of its employees and their families.

The extravagant plans will see the conurbation - dubbed 'Zee-town' after its owner - have its own roads, as well as accommodation ranging from luxurious villas for high-paid executives to dormitories for trainees.

Facebook recently spent $400million (£260million) on a 55-acre industrial park next to their main offices at 1 Hacker Way near San Francisco's Menlo Park, the final plot needed for construction to begin, the Sunday Times reported.

Mr Zuckerberg has hired architect Frank Gehry, 85, who designed the visually-striking Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao, Spain, for the job.

The social media website's director of property John Tenanes said the town will have 'real streets' and public spaces for outsiders to visit, adding that 'random things can happen like in any other city'.

Mr Gehry was asked to tone down some of the plans for the $200billion (£130billion) company's town, with the architect told to make the buildings blend into nature.

Most of the offices will have oak trees planted on 40ft high roofs with Facebook hoping the site will look like a grassy hill from the outside.

Critics of 'Zee-town' say that workers will be dependent on cars to get to the settlement, going against Facebook's eco-friendly ethos.

Business writer Sarah Goodyear said it 'epitomises the planning failures of the past three generations in California and avoids connecting with a real messy place like San Francisco'.

Mr Zuckerberg already has a $10million (£6.5million), five-bedroom 'starter home' 20 minutes away from the site, so he is unlikely to be moving in once the town is complete.

The tycoon also owns four houses on the same street and allegedly hires students and interns to sit in cars outside his homes to reserve parking spaces.

Mr Zuckerberg, the 15th wealthiest person in the world according to Forbes, is not the first boss to try to build a town for their company.

The Cadbury family built Bournville - and named their plain chocolate bar after it - in the 19th century after the confectionery makers needed to move the factory to a new site in Birmingham.

Jeff Bezos, founder of Amazon, also plans to move his company to its own independent settlement, using the unconventional method of building rockets in an attempt to colonise space.

(dailymail.co.uk)