Cemetary clean-up call by widow
A Coventry widow who is fed up of dodging muddy puddles when she visits her husband?s grave is asking the city council to improve the condition of a potholed cemetery car park.
Coventry Live
Rita Butler, of Rushmoor Drive, Coventry, visits St Paul?s Cemetery in Holbrook Lane at least once a week to tend the grave of husband Robert, a former Coventry JP who died a year ago.
Mrs Butler, who also visits the graves of her parents there, said the parking area was on uneven ground and became flooded by heavy rain. It was full of potholes and vehicles had churned up the surface.
Mrs Butler suggests the area should be hard-surfaced and said pathways also needed sorting out. She said: ?I would just like to see it properly surfaced, just to make it a flat place where we can park our cars.?
Gary Marshall, the city council head of bereavement services, said there was no intention to hard-surface the area, although damage caused by heavy vehicles, particularly near a skip used to deposit rubbish, would be addressed.
He said the St Paul?s graveyard was expected to be full within next five years and the space now occupied by the car park was designated burial ground which was likely to be used.
Some work is planned in the next financial year, from April, when the area will be screened and fenced. Mr Marshall added: ?It is a temporary parking area which will be reviewed as the cemetery becomes more full and graves get closer to the area.?
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