Staffordshire cemetery experiment creates extra burial plots

Fresh space has been created in a Staffordshire cemetery by using a new system which allows burials in plots separated by plastic walls.

The remaining land at Eccleshall Road Cemetery in Stafford is too sandy to allow conventional burials, Stafford Borough Council said.
Instead 12 plots have been created using plastic partitions sunk into the ground.
The method makes the graves safer and uses less space, a spokesman said.
The council said the burial system is believed to be the first of its kind used in this country.READ MORE