 Only approved headstones are now allowed for graves |
An action group battling against controversial plans to clean up gravestones at a Guernsey cemetery wants the proposals postponed. Relatives are unhappy with the Board of Administration's push to modify many burial sites at the Foulon Cemetery.
The Board has set an end-of-year deadline for the work to be completed.
Trevor Kirk, of the Foulon Friends, said the group intended putting pressure on Board of Administration members in the hope they would change their minds.
"I have hand-delivered a letter to the Board asking them to postpone the threat of taking away memorials at the end of the year that have not already been moved.
Unapproved ornaments
"I spoke to a civil servant at the Board, and I was led to believe that the Board has already made moves towards accepting that."
The row developed after the Board said relatives of people buried there could not leave unapproved ornaments, flowers and memorials.
The Board told mourners to remove all loose memorials from the cemetery because the objects prevented graveyard workers from keeping the site clean and tidy.
Approved headstones and vases sitting on them are now the only memorials allowed.
Relatives have been told offending items will be removed after 31 December.
Campaigners against the new directive want locals to be able to remember their relatives with fitting memorials.
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