YOUR reports and subsequent correspondence concerning Powick Parish Council's withdrawal of funding for Powick Churchyard maintenance have exposed an unacceptable situation.
Many of your readers benefit from cemeteries and churchyards provided, or subsidised, by council tax. The Local Government Act, 1972, empowers parish councils to contribute towards any expenses incurred, by any other person, in maintaining a cemetery in which inhabitants of the authority's area may be buried. All parishioners have a right of burial in the churchyard.
The suggestion that workers on Community Punishment Orders could be the answer, may have merit, but conceals inadequate funding. For as long as Powick parish councillors decline to exercise the power granted them by Parliament, they are failing the electorate and neglecting the generations of parishioners interred in the churchyard.
A D GWILLIAM,
Powick, Worcester.
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