Decision details

The busiest of the City’s burial sites will be full within the next 3 years. The report looks to seek Cabinet approval to utilise an area of existing Council owned land North of the M4 on the A469 for new cemetery space subject to planning approvals being granted.

To give delegated authority to officers to take forward a planning application for the site and deal with the termination or adjustment of an existing agricultural lease attached to the land.

RESOLVED: that

1.            the submission of a planning application be supported to seek the necessary consent for development of the site situated on the A469 north of the M4 and identified on the attached map as Appendix 1 as a municipal cemetery.

2.            officers seek to negotiate a surrender of the current tenancy agreement by the leaseholder in order to take back the required land at an earlier date and subsequently serve the necessary termination notice in respect of the tenancy.