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Search for a burials site is ‘a priority’ A CEMETERY between Oxford and the village of Horspath is still ‘a possibility’, according to a senior city councillor leading the search for a new site. Oxford City Council has been looking for a suitable location since 2009 after it was found that the city’s cemeteries have only enough space left until 2019.
By Loughlan Campbell Two of the city’s four councilowned cemeteries in Dunstan Road, Old Headington, and in Church Cowley Road are already full, and the remaining two in Banbury Road and North Hinksey Lane, Botley, are set to be full within three years.
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Councillor Mark Lygo, the city council’s executive board member for events, told the Guardian: “There has been an active search for sites across Oxford’s boundaries but we’re yet to fi nd the right site.” He confi rmed that green space at Five Mile Drive recreation ground, off Banbury Road, and Hill View Farm in Old Marston, which had been looked at as possibilities, had now been ruled out. However, when questioned about three sites off Oxford Road between Oxford and Horspath, Cllr Lygo said: “It still remains a possibility. “We are not quite at panic stations just yet but the search for a new site is very much a council priority and we’re exploring the option of Horspath as we are most likely to be fi lled up for
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sites by 2019.” A site previously earmarked near Horspath was for a 20-acre cemetery between Horspath Athletic Ground and Shotover Hill. Martin Harris, a parish councillor for Horspath, said that three sites between the village and Oxford on the Oxford Road had been looked at previously by the city council last year and in 2014. He said: “From our understanding, it was thought that those sites were unsuitable for a cemetery. We haven’t heard anything about it since. “I understand that the city council needs to provide burial ground and if we get a concrete planning application about it, we’ll see if we will be on board with it.”
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