[attach id=444804 size="medium"]An architect’s proposed plans for the pet cemetery.[/attach]

 

The planning authority today approved an application for a pet cemetery with a small incinerator, submitted by the animal rights parliamentary secretariat in February.

The cemetery, in Ta’ Qali, will cover an area of about 1,900 square metres where people will be able to put an urn with their pets’ ashes in free-standing walls.

An incinerator and a burial preparation room will be built in the centre of the cemetery, surrounded by rows of burial walls having 11,000 compartments of about 30cm by 30cm. Otherwise, people can choose to cremate their pet at the cemetery and take the remains home.

The application was approved with one vote against. Board member Alex Vella questioned how appropriate it was to build a cemetery at a recreational area.

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