Catherine Withers says a cemetery expansion plan could force Bristol's last working farm to shut.
By Alex Seabrook, Chloe Harcombe and Richard GreenawayThe last working farm in a city could be forced to close if plans for a cemetery expansion go ahead.Bristol City Council says it is running out of burial spaces in the city and is applying for planning permission to expand the South Bristol Cemetery on to council-owned lane used by the farm.
"I totally understand that we need more burial spaces, but [bodies are] being buried in MDF coffins with solvents and embalming fluids," she said. "In May 2021, council officers met with the farm, providing a generous temporary grazing agreement on the land beyond the scope of the initial expansion set to take place over 10 years, in the knowledge that some of that land would be claimed back for the necessary burial expansion," he wrote.
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