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    The DDC Planning Committee will tomorrow,Thursday 25th February at 5.30 p.m.,decide upon an application to demolish the old Whitfield Chapel (on Chapel Road) which dates from 1867,and replace it with three houses.The fate of the burial ground and interior memorial to First World War heroes is thus at stake.Original proposals were amended in the light of objections.However they do not go far enough.There is still opposition from many local residents,as well as the Whitfield Parish Council and the Dover Society.The planning report recommends approval subject to a number of conditions.Among these is the fate of the burial ground and the interior memorial tablet.The report suggests that maintenance and upkeep of the burial ground will be in the hands of the dwelling occupiers bearing in mind that the last grave,in a site which is well over 200 years old ,dates from 1977.Will the occupiers be so keen to regularly hack down the vegetation?How will this be enforceable? Who would want to live in a house with an overgrown graveyard at the bottom of its garden?This will be a very interesting debate,viewable online.

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