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Burial site will offer cheap plots

March 26, 2015 13:21

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Simon Rocker,

Simon Rocker

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An independent burial service which will be cheaper to join than most synagogue schemes is set to go ahead after plans for a new cemetery were approved this week.

Hertsmere Council had originally rejected the proposal to open it on the site of the A1 Shooting Ground, on the outskirts of north-west London, which lies in green-belt land.

But the Planning Inspectorate has overturned the decision and now given a green light to developers, the Country Group, who have bought the site.

The new burial service intends to offer subscriptions for as little as £240 a year - less than half the cost of some existing synagogue-based burial schemes.