My little boy passed away on the 14th June 2019. He was 7 weeks and 6 days old. After some time we chose to bury him at Weston Road Cemetery. We have now been informed (on what should have been my son's 2nd birthday) that we are not allowed to have anything on the lawn where our babies are, such as fencing etc.

I, along with many other angel parents are not pleased with this and were not aware of this either. Many of us have fencing, ornaments and flowers on our babies graves and the reason we have been told this isn’t allowed is due to the council cutting grass and accidentally damaging ornaments etc. We have paid a lot of money to put our babies here, and all we are allowed to use is a small bit of concrete. We should be allowed to place whatever we wish where our babies are, and many of us do it for occasions. 

To any parents out there, do you buy your children gifts? For birthdays? For Christmas? If this is such a big concern for the council, then give us paperwork to sign that says we are placing things at our own risk. Or better yet, allow us to put a kerb memorial in place so that it’s lifted and you cannot damage anything accidentally or not. We have paid for rights to the graves. I believe this is our right being taken away!

Let’s get justice for our babies and allow them to rest in peace!