A proposed 45-acre Muslim cemetery in Lancashire, planned to be the largest in Britain, has sparked strong opposition from local residents.
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00:00We're here at West End, Blackburn Road. This is the land, which is all the land for the
00:17cemetery, so this side and this side. Blackburn Road runs across the bottom and over that
00:24hill, Stannow Road. Twelve and a half thousand burial spaces, mainly for the Muslim community.
00:32The community in Aldertwistle are fully against this and won't stop the cemetery. The reasons
00:38being mainly, obviously, this beautiful greenbelt should be protected, flooding issues at the
00:45bottom and obviously the traffic along Blackburn Road. So our objections are going in from
00:49the general public. We've got a GoFundMe page, which is raising funds to get a legal
00:55objection and we've also issued leaflets out to every resident within Aldertwistle to make
01:01them aware of the application. The main objection is obviously protecting our greenbelt, but
01:06also this land floods a lot, so I don't think it's the right type of land for a cemetery.
01:12Stannow to the cemetery, we have a small committee that meets regularly every week to discuss
01:18that week's work and then we have regular residence meetings, which we can have up to
01:24two to three hundred people attend to inform the residents of everything, what we've been
01:28doing. We think we've got a really good case.