Long awaited proposals to increase Pinchbeck Cemetery and renovate the village’s war memorial are now progressing thanks to the parish council.
With just three to five years left at the current Cherryholt Lane Cemetery, preparatory work on a new seven acre site at Blue Gowt Lane is now due to start later this year.
Final plans for the site will come before the parish council in 2022 with the idea that five acres – amounting to 420 burial plots – will provide space up to around 2070, with the rest of the land until then to be a green space.
Meanwhile the 1920 erected war memorial is getting a £9,000 restoration.
Coun Terry Moore said: “We originally planned to have this project completed to coincide with the monument being 100 years old, and VE Day in 2018.
“Sadly, with the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic this project had to be postponed.”
James Avery, chair of the parish council, said: “I came on to the parish council 15 years ago, and at my first meeting it was discussed that we were running out of space in the current cemetery.
“Now 15 years later and we are rapidly approaching the point where we clearly now need a long term solution for burials and ashes interment”.
“The war memorial now also looks every one of its 100 plus years old and requires some sympathetic and skilled attention to ensure we can continue to pay our respects during remembrance for the next 100 years and beyond.
“We owe it to the memory of those brave men and women that lost their lives during the two world wars, and to their descendants, to reinstate the memorial to a position that reflects the respect we have for those that died for their country.”
