Andrew Burns

Council continues the abuse of City’s dead

By The Basa ⋅ May 3, 2005 ⋅  Email this post ⋅  Print this post ⋅ Post a comment

After pulling down gravestones throughout the city, the Council now tell us that the city is running out of space to bury the dead of the city.

The current administration who have been in power for over a decade have not decided to earmark some of the property they have been selling off to developers for a cemetery for the city’s dead.

Closing schools and hospitals and selling off the land to private enterprises is the legacy of this Council but providing a space for the dead seems to have been last on their list.

More than 120 new graves are used at Mortonhall each year, out of an average of 300 burials there. In 1983, the cemetery was divided into two sections following a request from the Roman Catholic community.

The city council agreed to allocate 1000 new spaces at Mortonhall. To date, 960 of these allocated spaces have been used, and the remaining 40 plots are expected to be filled by the end of this year.

With the space for Catholics expected to run out before the end of the year, leaving catholics with nowhere to bury their dead, it is understandable that the catholic community are beginning to look on this as sectarianism on behalf of the mostly protestant council.

More Info: Fears over burial as cemeteries run out of space

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