UPDATE - in November 2023 I was told in the council meeting that the rules & regulations would be reviewed & hopefully make a change. January 2024 there was another meeting on the changes of the rules & regulations where the council believes they have been looked at carefully. There is nothing on that list that has been changed. They have reworded certain words to benefit them & to make it sound better.

they have put a hold on to any items being removed until the final meeting � - hopefully we can have another debate at the council meeting with bring forward ���� we will have our say and stand for what is right. We're half ownership of those graves why can we not do what our loved ones loved! After all it's their forever garden a nice quiet space to remember them with the things they loved or loved to do.

I believe they should allow at least 12/24 months to allow you to decorate your loved ones resting place how you like as long as noone is effective by it - it takes awhile for it to sink in thinking about buying a headstone, there forever stone, the last thing I can ever buy my baby & I want it to be perfect ❤️

 

There is a survey for the public to have their say, bare in mind these questions are irrelevant and absolutely bullshit. But please if you could take part and get this petition shared far & wide before the next meeting in march - ����

 

https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/PXFRM6K?fbclid=IwAR2trjBaVsSBHAs68blDL-UHfBL1hvxPCStZRu-gT74wt0syoKvNsKS_xOU

 

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12-02-2022 was when my worst nightmare happened - my 7 year old son suffered a severe asthma attack and sadly passed away.

With my son passing it has effected us as a family massively with him leaving a big massive hole not just in my heart but his little sisters too along with his family and close friends. Harry-lees sister was 6 years old at the time of my son's death with them being 14 months apart,  she has struggled so much to come to terms with his death, learning how to live without her bestfriend, he was her shadow, her voice, he did everything for her, she has struggled going up his grave, coming to terms with it all, it has been sooo hard, some days she comes up and just sits in the car, other days she may push her self but within 5 minutes she's back in the car and some days she refuse full blank that she's not going and that's ok.

The more things we do to his garden making it personal to us, more comfortable she is starting to feel going up there, the last year hasn't been easy, some days I have struggled myself with facing it, reality hits you. I couldn't just imagine how it is for her, with her only being a lil girl and having one of your best friends snatched away overnight.

Around the 14 October 2023 I received a letter from my local cemetery asking me to remove my son's border that myself and daughter placed around his garden and painted multi coloured back in june, this has devastated myself and my daughter, this has also caused so much upset within our family, everything that's done on my son's grave has been done to remember the funny, cheerfull, brightest boy that he is, it's not just so personal to us other family members also find comfort from this and it gives us some peace when visiting.

I'm shocked that the gloucester council has taken over 4 months to contact me saying it's only just came to their attention, never mind the past borders I've done previously, you would of thought they would have bigger things to make their staff be doing then sending out letters to venerable grieving people threatening to remove items of their loved ones graves.

It's disgusting.

Why are we allowed a wooden bench but not a wooden border?

Most benches are suppose to have a base. Majority of them are slapped down with no base.

We have a council meeting on the 16th November 2023 where my local councillor Alastair and Brendon will be getting this questioned and will try to get the council to agree at getting the rules and regulations reviewed at the cemetery, we will be asking questions as to why and what reasons, it's not fair that they think it's ok to pick on grieving parents/families 

If you agree and would like to help myself and Alastair chambers get the rules and regulations reviewed then please please sign and get yourself involved... 

This is also on behalf of other families who has received letters to remove certain items from their loved ones resting place.

I really do appreciate the support 

We've got this together