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Green Way For Future Of Burials

Thursday, 11 December 2003

BY ALLAN TUDOR

09 December 2003

A "green" proposal to ease pressure on Torbay's burial capacity is being considered.

The Torbay Coast and Countryside Trust is in informal discussion with council officers about the possibility of a providing a green burial site somewhere in the resort. The idea is to have a wildflower meadow without plaques or head stones, so avoiding the difficulties of management, and comes as the council's executive is due to consider a 1,600 signature petition opposing grassing over of Torquay cemetery.
Trust director Dominic Acland said: "We are agreeable to it in principle, and there does seem to be a demand for it.

"It seems people are quite keen to return their bodies to nature.

"A number of other trusts have taken it up quite successfully and it is an appropriate thing to do.

"We envisage it would be a wildflower meadow, but there would be no plaques or head stones.

"After the burial the ground would go back to being a meadow.

"We would make it obvious that it is a place of remembrance or burial."

The trust would use about one or two acres of its 1,700 acre estate.

Mr Acland said it would not be close to houses, or in woodland, or on special nature sites like Berry Head or Cockington Country Park. "I am sure we can find somewhere reasonably remote."

It would need to be approved and regulated by the council and the Environment Agency.

The 1,633 signature petition has been organised by Trevor Parnell and Teresa Whitcher, who both have relatives buried at the cemetery.

It was presented to the council by former councillor Bruce Cowling, who says three members of his family are buried in the cemetery.

Mr Cowling said to councillors: "Really these people only wish to place flowers and look after the graves of their own."

Relatives of those buried in the cemetery were angered when cemetery officials insisted only a 12-inch square in front of the headstone could be used for plants and memorials.

Cemetery officials say it is a lawned cemetery, which has to be kept clear in front of headstones so the rows between them can be mown.

Environment councillor Colin Charlwood said: "This is very sensitive issue and we will try to find an answer that is reasonable, and that is probably all we can do."

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