This is the site earmarked for Britain's biggest ever Muslim cemetery and which has sparked huge opposition from local residents.
The aerial images show the huge scale of the proposed 45-acre Memorial Garden site which would contain 12,250 burial plots, funeral parlour and prayer halls.
The cemetery plan has been submitted by the billionaire Issa brothers on land near Oswaldtwistle, west of Blackburn, Lancashire, which has a population of just 10,815.
The aerial images show the huge scale of the proposed 45-acre Memorial Garden site which would contain 12,250 burial plots, funeral parlour and prayer halls.
The cemetery plan has been submitted by the billionaire Issa brothers on land near Oswaldtwistle, west of Blackburn, Lancashire, which has a population of just 10,815.
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00:00We're here at West End, Blackburn Road. This is the land, which is all the land for the
00:17cemetery, so this side and this side. Blackburn Road runs across the bottom and over that
00:24hill, Stannow Road. Twelve and a half thousand burial spaces, mainly for the Muslim community.
00:32The community in Aldertwistle are fully against this and won't stop the cemetery. The reasons
00:38being mainly, obviously, this beautiful greenbelt should be protected, flooding issues at the
00:45bottom and obviously the traffic along Blackburn Road. So our objections are going in from
00:49the general public. We've got a GoFundMe page, which is raising funds to get a legal
00:55objection and we've also issued leaflets out to every resident within Aldertwistle to make
01:01them aware of the application. The main objection is obviously protecting our greenbelt, but
01:06also this land floods a lot, so I don't think it's the right type of land for a cemetery.
01:12Stannow to the cemetery, we have a small committee that meets regularly every week to discuss
01:18that week's work and then we have regular residence meetings, which we can have up to
01:24two to three hundred people attend to inform the residents of everything, what we've been
01:28doing. We think we've got a really good case.