Help! Want to challenge plans to build new cemetery on my doorstep....?

Question

and wondered if anyone out there has gotten together with their local community and done the same thing?

I live in a town in South Wales and we have been recently told that a large cemetery development is planned for the beautiful green landscape behind our homes. The access road would go right through our housing estate ( taking away our childrens play area) and the natural environment in the meadows behind our houses would be ruined. We plan on fighting- but I would like to hear from anyone who has experienced the same, specifically in relation to cemetery developments.

Answer 1

These things have to go somewhere, its better than a housing estate / industrial estate....

If you feel its in a bad place. Search for a more suitable place and lobby local councillors / newspapers etc

If it looks like it is going next door then maybe lobby the local council / planning office for a compromise.

Could they reroute the access road, save some of the land as a children's play area etc.

Have an area that separates the current housing from the cemetery where no burials will take place, suitable tree planting etc.  Suggest you get together with the neighbours and plan how you would want it if you're forced to have it.

Answer 2

Wow...neighbors that would be "dead" quiet, and would never litter, or have their teenagers band playing in their garage?  Neighbors that wouldn't have their pet dogs and cats coming and pooping in your flower beds?

Neighbors who once "installed" would never drive a car through your neighborhood again?

Neighbors who would never build a home, or install really tacky yard "art?"

I would welcome a cemetery with open arms, if one desired to move next to any property we owned.  Instead we have a neighbor with a vicious pit bull, or the other neighbors who purchased a baby donkey, and now hit it, every time it brays.  

To me, cemeterys are perfect neighbors.

~Garnet

Permaculture homesteading/farming over 20 years

Answer 3

While quiet neighbors are nice and cemetaries are very popular (I hear that people are dying to get in), open fields are nicer. Are there any threatened or endangered species found in your area? Perhaps you could get the developers to pay for at least a baseline survey of the area to be converted. That might raise the cost of development to a prohibitive level. Don't set your hopes too high but imperilled species can stop a project. Start by querying the arm of the government responsible for the natural environment. Somebody may have done a survey nearby.

Answer 4

Good luck with that. I would say start a petition. I don't know about laws in South Wales so I can't say for sure. But good luck.

Answer 5

I think you should start your procedures with local community for fighting and i am sure you will get your rights back.