Issa brothers' plans to build Britain's biggest Muslim cemetery slammed by locals

A proposed 45-acre Muslim cemetery in Lancashire, planned to be the largest in Britain, has sparked strong opposition from local residents.

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00:00We're here at West End, Blackburn Road. This is the land, which is all the land for the

00:17cemetery, so this side and this side. Blackburn Road runs across the bottom and over that

00:24hill, Stannow Road. Twelve and a half thousand burial spaces, mainly for the Muslim community.

00:32The community in Aldertwistle are fully against this and won't stop the cemetery. The reasons

00:38being mainly, obviously, this beautiful greenbelt should be protected, flooding issues at the

00:45bottom and obviously the traffic along Blackburn Road. So our objections are going in from

00:49the general public. We've got a GoFundMe page, which is raising funds to get a legal

00:55objection and we've also issued leaflets out to every resident within Aldertwistle to make

01:01them aware of the application. The main objection is obviously protecting our greenbelt, but

01:06also this land floods a lot, so I don't think it's the right type of land for a cemetery.

01:12Stannow to the cemetery, we have a small committee that meets regularly every week to discuss

01:18that week's work and then we have regular residence meetings, which we can have up to

01:24two to three hundred people attend to inform the residents of everything, what we've been

01:28doing. We think we've got a really good case.