Families at Sutton New Hall Cemetery are being forced to remove all grave boarder, and items that Birmingham City Council perceive as a Health and Safety trip hazard. We the families have never been informed of this until recently with no date set for forced removal of items leading to damaging the graves, if we haven't removed before. Understandably not all families attend daily and less then a months notice is unfair by any standards. Surely Birmingham City Council understand a cemetery will have things that are a trip hazard but restrictions shouldn't be so strict as to stop families honouring there loved ones. We understand cemetery employes and memorial stone masons can find it hard transporting heavy marble to graves, but yet again shouldn't it be an understandable hazard that unfortunately is part of there jobs. That being no different to driving a car or flying in a plane. We strongly do agree that there has to be restrictions to stop people imposing onto other graves or the walkways, in-between graves and also for the safety of the workers. But the new imposed restrictions are ridiculous and very upsetting to the families. Please help us and help change for the better our wishes to merely border of our graves for easy maintenance and overall care.  At some point the wishes of the families and the deceased should be respected and only those imposing on others and walkways should be dealt with.

 I've spoken to the office and all were being told is it's Birmingham City Council and the safety of our workers that's important. Any views other then that is taken negatively, like we don't care about there safety. They lack any passion or understanding of our needs.

Never the less please help in signing this petition, whether you have loved ones here or not, for just the reasons that you agree with the families here. 

Thank you for your support.