ONE OF the proposed crematoriums on Catfoot Lane, Lambley, has been recommended for planning approval by Gedling Borough Council’s planning officer Nick Morley.
The application by Westerleigh, for a crematorium and cemetery on ‘land north of the Lighthouse, Catfoot Lane’, now goes forward for a formal decision by the planning committee. That meeting will be held at Gedling Borough Council at 6pm on Wednesday 8 May 2013.
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A second application from funeral director AW Lymn, for a crematorium alone, has been recommended for refusal by the same planning process. This will also be decided by the planning committee on Wednesday.
Much of the reasoning for the recommendation seems based on the perceived need for a new crematorium in the area. The Catfoot Crematorium-Cemetery Opposition Group says that despite the “overwhelming evidence” it supplied that there is plenty of capacity at existing crematoriums within a short distance, the planning officer has seen fit to agree with the developer’s view.
The group is asking members of the public to attend the planning meeting en masse to demonstrate their objection to the applications. Although the officer has recommended one approval and one refusal, it remains for the committee to make the final decision on the night.
The greenbelt should be sacrosanct and not subjected to inappropriate building. It is in opposition to the Local Plan and Government guidelines concerning them. The view of the historic Lambley Dumbles from Mapperley Plains is amazing and should be preserved. If this carbuncle is built, then further encroachment will inevitably occur, due to urban expansion and the Dumbles heritage will be lost forever.