Plans for a new cemetery for Torfaen
After listening to local residents' views, Torfaen Council is planning to move the access road into a proposed £1.7 million cemetery.
The local authority is now looking at building the road to the proposed cemetery at Hollybush Heights, Cwmbran, to the east of Hollybush View.
If approved, the road would be built across Council-owned land rather than the original proposal through a housing estate at Cefn Milwr.
Before the new access road can be formally adopted as the Council's preferred option, it must be approved by the Countryside Council for Wales and the Environment Agency.
A decision is expected over the coming weeks.
The Council says that the proposed change shows that it is willing to listen residents' views, and where possible, provide alternative plans.
In June, officers met with around 100 residents during a public exhibition of the plans.
This event, along with other correspondence and meetings, highlighted concerns about the original access road.
Councillor John Cunningham, Executive Member for Operational Services, said: "From the outset we were willing to listen to local residents' and ward members' views so that we could form a better understanding of local issues.
"Now by working together, we have made changes to the plans which, when more detailed versions are released, local people will again have a chance to view and make comments on."
Earlier this year, the Council's Cabinet chose Hollybush Heights as its preferred site.
But no final decision on whether the site will be developed will be made until the local authority's planning committee scrutinises the plans early next year.
The plan has been drawn up because there is only three years capacity left in the Council's current cemetery, Panteg in New Inn.
If the proposal, which would have 50 years burial capacity, is approved, it could be open in 2010.
Green burials and more conventional ceremonies would be offered at the Council-owned site.
The cemetery would also include woodland and meadow areas which can be used for leisure activities by the local community.
A plan of the proposal|, facts and figures| and photographs| are available here.
If you have any comments about the proposal email christina.harrhy@torfaen.gov.uk|