The Klip Road Cemetery will run out of burial space in a yea

• Published date: 01 May 2024
• Author: Lillian Amos lillian.amos@acm.co.za
• Publication title: Southern Mail

It emerged at a sub-council meeting last month that the City's community services and health directorate applied to use 5.25 hectares of the grounds for potential future cemetery use

The municipal property between Klip Road, Victoria Road and Prince George Drive has been leased to the scouting movement since the 1950s.

The municipal property between Klip Road, Victoria Road and Prince George Drive has been leased to the scouting movement since the 1950s. The lease with Western Cape Scouts expired in March last year, but the organisation has continued to lease the site on a month-to-month basis.

Mayoral committee member for community services and health Patricia van de Ross told the Southern Mail that the lease had not been renewed because the City was considering the best sustainable use of the land for the community, which might include expanding the cemetery.

Consultants had been appointed to do a feasibility study - due to be completed by June - on whether the land was suitable for a cemetery.

“The recreation and parks department is investigating the future use of the site and the expansion of the Klip Road Cemetery has been identified as an option, given the need for additional burial space,” she said.

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