A COMMUNITY cemetery has expressed its frustration at red tape blocking its ability to help ease the pressure on burials at the district’s other cemeteries.
The work to create Keighley Community Cemetery is not fully completed but it has offered to begin burials at the site, as Covid-19 has increased the number of deaths in the district had put added pressure on burial grounds, it claims.
However, following the contentious approval of the plans in 2015, a number of conditions were put in place for the site and the developers have had to jump through a number of hoops.
It’s owners Michael Ainsworth Design Partnership have said that conditions around planting of trees and other foliage on the site, required in the conditions, have not yet been completed which legally mean it cannot open, but has asked for Bradford Council to show some leniency to allow burials to take place.