Sheffield City Council is pressing ahead with plans to build two new cemeteries on green belt land despite objections from residents.
The council’s Local Plan, which is a blueprint for how the city will develop, includes plans to build 3,500 new homes, cemeteries and secondary schools on 14 green belt sites.
Hundreds of residents in the S12 and S35 postcodes have objected as the majority of the development will be in those two areas.
Sheffield councillors have yet to formally approval the Local Plan but feasibility studies are being carried out for the cemeteries. Officers said they recognise any activity “may be sensitive” and they will communicate with residents.
The council said Sheffield will run out of new grave space within the next few years. It has identified two new burial sites at Common Lane in S11 and Jordanthorpe Parkway in S8, with potentially another site in the S5/S9 postcode.
One of the priorities is to do feasibility work at land off Beaver Hill Road in S13, which is a green belt site named in the Local Plan.
