Plans to plough more cash into a rundown Paisley cemetery could be given the green light despite more than £500,000 already being spent on repairs.
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Extra cash could be funnelled into dilapidated Hawkhead Cemetery which has been blighted with potholes and flooding for a number of years.
Councillors Eileen McCartin and Paul Mack have called for the funds to be allocated as the area is still in a “shocking state of disrepair”.
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The issue is set to be discussed at the full Renfrewshire Council meeting tomorrow.
A motion put forward by Councillors McCartin and Mack states that the repairs have only been carried out on one section of the cemetery and that “most of the area is still in a shocking state of disrepair.”
It reads: “Adequate funding will be included in next year’s administration budget to fully address the problems which have built up in Hawkhead cemetery over the previous decades.”
Works costing £522,000 to improve the cemetery were rubber-stamped in June this year.
The two phases of work on the area have already been completed to improve the drainage, resurface internal roads and repair the kerbing.
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However, councillors could be set to approve plans to fund even more work.
We previously told how grief-stricken families have been complaining about the state of the cemetery, which is littered with potholes, for more than two years.
Janice Murphy, whose mum was laid to rest in the cemetery, revealed she had no plans to return to the graveyard until work was under way.
She previously said: “It’s such a state that I’ve lost the heart to go up there. Where my mum’s grave is, it’s very bad. It’s an accident waiting to happen.”
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The current works were carried out as part of the council’s £1million plans to improve nine cemeteries in the area.
The first phase of the work began in September and the second phase was completed last week which saw the installation
of new drainage to combat flooding.
The works also included resurfacing of the internal roads and the repair of kerbing.
Works have also been completed at cemeteries in Bishopton, Abbey, Houston, Kilbarchan, Lochwinnoch and Broomward.
