A massive expansion of Knowsley Cemetery could see part of Whiston Woods converted into thousands of new burial plots.
Plans for the £2.6m project are set to be discussed at a meeting of Knowsley Council ’s Cabinet tomorrow, July 13. The expansion would see Knowsley Council spend £600k buying up 20 hectares of Whiston Woods from the Forestry Commission.
Just over a fifth of that land would then be set aside to create an extra 10,000 burial plots for the borough, as well as new infrastructure to allow access to the site, which sits next to the existing Knowsley Cemetery at Fox’s Bank Lane in Whiston. The total cost of creating the cemetery extension, including purchase of the land, would come in at £2.6m according the report.
