Advice please! Cemetery expanding on land virtually next to house

spacey2012

The points missed are grave diggers start work at 4.30 and use a JCB or other mechanical digger , who has ever seen a JCB in a grave yard ? no you will not they are over and done by 7.30.
waking up to stone been ground out of the ground at 4.30am is not peaceful.

I think you may well find they already know and decided to sell up quick.

A search should show up all outline planning permissions within a set radius.
As I said, someone is asleep at the wheel.

paddy's_mum

You only have to read the engravings on the headstones, or watch family members coming to a graveside with a few flowers or a pot plant to realise that most cemeteries are places of love.

Yes, there is loss. Yes, there is grief ..but how many folk come to a cemetery with hate in their hearts?

SG27

spacey2012 wrote: »

The points missed are grave diggers start work at 4.30 and use a JCB or other mechanical digger , who has ever seen a JCB in a grave yard ? no you will not they are over and done by 7.30.
waking up to stone been ground out of the ground at 4.30am is not peaceful.

I think you may well find they already know and decided to sell up quick.

A search should show up all outline planning permissions within a set radius.
As I said, someone is asleep at the wheel.

No Jcb in ours, two blokes with shovels!

System

I would think that even in a graveyard the Control of Pollution Act 1974 would still apply for the times that they are allowed to use plant such as JCBs

Soleil_lune

Ftb_54 wrote: »

We are in need of some advice, we are set to exchange contracts on our first property shortly, but we have just read in the paper the cemetery nearby are set to expand on the land next to our estate which will mean to the left of our property there will be thousands of burial plots sectioned off by a fence! We are unsure how this will effect the price and resale of our property.

I'm confused. The cemetery is expanding, but I gather you were prepared to live next to a cemetery in the first place. The house must have been quite close, or the extension wouldn't be close IYSWIM.

That said, no it wouldn't bother me at all. I would wonder about the noise of the gravedigging though. DO they used JCBs though? And surely they wouldn't start at 4.30am.. I can't believe that.

Mojisola

https://nationalcareersservice.direct.gov.uk/advice/planning/jobprofiles/Pages/cemeteryworker.aspx
Hours
You will usually work 9am to 5pm, Monday to Friday. You may also need to work at weekends and will be outdoors in all kinds of weather.

EdwardS033

Is your vendor the chap off Permission Impossible on BBC Iplayer?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b03xlclt/Permission_Impossible_Britains_Planners_Episode_5/

toejumper

i live over the road from a small chapel with graves and gravestone and it has never decreased any of the houses in value many houses have sold numerous of time with no problems, as you can imagine its dead quiet living here.

Horace

An extension to the cemetery may not automatically mean more grave stones - it could even be a green cemetery full of trees. There will be a specified distance that the graves can be from the hedgerow so you won't have them right up against it.

Personally, I can't see what there is to object about because we are all likely to end up in the grave yard unless we have our ashes scattered elsewhere. I would much rather live next to a cemetery than next to a 5 lane motorway or high speed railway.

SG27

!!!!!! wrote: »

I would think that even in a graveyard the Control of Pollution Act 1974 would still apply for the times that they are allowed to use plant such as JCBs

I expect tour rugby for large graveyards. But they wouldn't get a Jcb through the small churchyard gate even if they wanted too! Plus driving a jcb around would ruin all the nice grass.