Funeral firm plan at Staffordshire farm is thrown out
Plans to turn a farmhouse into a funeral directors next to a 32,000-plot cemetery have been thrown out by Government chiefs.
Developers had appealed to the Planning Inspectorate after councillors refused planning permission for the scheme in Staffordshire earlier this year.
But the appeal has been rejected amid concerns that the site in Walsall Road, Muckley Corner, near Brownhills is not suitable.
Inspectors say the funeral directors should be built in a town centre instead.
Springhill Cemetery sparked controversy when proposals were submitted, with opponents claiming it would cause traffic problems and flooding.
Lichfield District Council refused planning permission but approved a revised application last year.
The council then rejected the plans for the funeral directors in April, but the owner Aamer Waheed appealed the decision.
No one from the cemetery was available to comment.
