City sprawl swallows up more farmland - this time a cemetery

Chris McLennan
July 20 2021 - 7:00am
CITY SPRAWL: This parcel of farming land on about an hour from Melbourne's CBD has been earmarked for a new cemetery. Picture: Greater Metropolitan Cemeteries Trust.
CITY SPRAWL: This parcel of farming land on about an hour from Melbourne's CBD has been earmarked for a new cemetery. Picture: Greater Metropolitan Cemeteries Trust.

It's not only the living looking to occupy farm land on the fringes of our cities, but the dead as well.

Chris McLennan

Chris McLennan

National Rural Property Writer

ACM national rural property writer based in Bacchus Marsh, Victoria. Career journalist. Multi award winner.