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A cemetery is locked in a dispute with a local council and “NIMBYs” over plans for a new road. Bluebell Cemetery in Badgers Mount insists it needs the new road on-site to avoid “building site-style deliveries” while mourners are coming in and out. But planning bosses say the proposal is inappropriate in the green belt. At the beginning of this year, the cemetery near Sevenoaks and Orpington applied for permission to build a new haul road to transport construction materials. Originally meant to help with ongoing development work at the rural graveyard, the owners planned to convert it into an e…

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