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| The grass field earmarked for a new cemetery |
A NEW 450-plot cemetery is in prospect for a grass field near Toll Bar Academy,
North East Lincolnshire Council has this week given the thumbs-up 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
* 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.
However, this concluded that excavations would be unlikely to find much, if anything, of historical interest.
The application did not go before NELC's planning committee but was determined under delegated powers by senior case officer Bethany Loring.
Her report states: "There will be increased activity at the site and the level of noise to neighbours could potentially increase during this stage.
"However, works would be relatively minor and subject to a working hours condition and this should not be adverse.
"When the use has been implemented it would not produce significant disturbance due to its sensitivity.
"The immediate residential neighbours are positioned at a significant distance away from the area of development."
It continues: "The site benefits from an existing access point, which will serve the site as well as the existing allotments to the west.
"This would be retained but would be widened to 5.5 metres.
A total of 24 parking spaces, two for disabled, will be provided to the front. This will be bound by footpaths for pedestrian access to include gates.
"Within the site, there will be internal roads and turning heads, specifically for manoeuvring of hearses.
"In order to soften the impact, existing hedging will be retained to the boundaries with new hedging and trees also proposed which would ensure better assimilation with the open area.
"This will also be akin to the existing allotments positioned to the west."
At one point, there was a suggestion that, for the benefit of pedestrians, a zebra crossing or something similar would be provided, but highways officers have deemed this inappropriate.
It is not yet known when work will start on the project.
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| The proposed lay out of the cemetery - the blue circles indicate where trees will 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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