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| The grass field earmarked for a new cemetery |
A NEW 450-plot cemetery could be created on a grass field near Toll Bar Academy if North East Lincolnshire planners give the go-ahead.
Waltham Parish Council has submitted an application for the development on a field adjacent to allotments off Station Road.
As well as creating burial plots, the project also includes:
* Widening of the existing access
* Introduction of a zebra crossing on Station Road, plus a pedestrian access path,
* Creation of a car park with 22 standard parking spaces and two disabled parking spaces
* Vehicular gates and pedestrian gates for visitors
* Formation of an access road, turning circle and turning head for a hearse
* Installation of external benches and memorial areas
* Hedge and tree planting (denoted on the landscaping plan)
In advance of submitting its planning application, the parish council commissioned a geophysical survey to establish if the field might be of archaeological interest.
The report states: "A number of potentially significant heritage assets are listed within 1km of the site.
"These include:
* A complex of cropmark enclosures and trackways, the northern and western components of which lie within approximately 500m to the south-east of the site. These conceivably signify occupation from at least the late prehistoric/Romano-British Periods and/or potentially from the Early Neolithic era.
• A further cropmark array of potential enclosures and trackways on land to the north of Station Road, the southern edge within 300m to the north, similarly believed to date from at least the Roman period.
However, it concludes that excavations would be unlikely to find much, if anything, of historical interest.
The application is expected to be determined early in the New Year.
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| The proposed lay out of the cemetery - the blue circles indicate where trees would be planted |
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| An example of the sort of bench that is being considered |
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| A children's memorial is also proposed |
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