Proposals for a Muslim cemetery near Peterborough have been recommended for refusal by city council planners.

The proposed cemetery would include 8,488 burial plots, a ceremony building, maintenance building, and a 64-space car park.

The plans would have located it on agricultural land south of Old Peterborough Road in Sutton.

Applicant Sageer Mohammed of the Green Meadows group submitted plans for the site to Peterborough City Council in November 2024.

They will go before the authority's planning committee on Tuesday, October 21, where members will be recommended to turn them down.

Castor, Ailsworth, and Sutton parish councils were among the interested parties that objected to the plans, as well as city councillor Gavin Elsey, the Peterborough Civic Society, and 192 local residents

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