JemmaPage published 'Much-needed' multi-faith burial ground could be built in...

A multi-faith cemetery could be built in Southwell in a bid to create 'much-needed' burial space in the Nottinghamshire town. A planning application to build a non-denominational graveyard on a disused field off Bishop's Drive has been submitted to Newark and Sherwood District Council. If the scheme is successful, 1,752 burial spaces and a further 185 cremated plots would be built on the 1.1 hectares site, known as Badgers Field. Southwell Town Council analysed 14 potential new cemetery...