Infrastructure Delivery Plan (Feb 2013) - Runnymede Borough Council

provision will occur over the plan period. Services are currently not at capacity
and as such, a need to adapt and revise existing provision is the most likely
outcome over the plan period to ensure that an attractive service is offered to
young people.
Places of worship
61 Surrey Faith Links estimated in 2010 there were in the region of 45 faith
organisations and places of worship across the Borough. Whilst the majority
of these are Christian places of worship, the Surrey Muslim Centre is located
in Albert Road in Addlestone (previously St Augustine Church of England
church) and there is also a Society of Friends (Quakers) meeting house in
Egham. There are no synagogues within the Borough. The predomination of
Christian places of worship reflects the results of the 2001 census which
found that seventy five percent of Surrey’s population said they were
Christian.
62 As communities becomes more diverse, there is a need for sufficient buildings
to allow for people of various faiths and ethnic backgrounds to worship locally.
A number of extensions to places of worship in the Borough have been
granted permission in recent years. These approved schemes may well come
forward over the plan period. The costs of the works proposed are unknown
but would be funded privately.
Cemeteries and crematoriums
63 There is increasing concern about the availability of burial sites across the
country and this is an emerging issue in Runnymede. There in no
crematorium in the Borough although there is generally a good distribution of
cemeteries and churchyards, but there is a shortage of grave space in some.
In particular, all of the available space at Addlestone cemetery will be used by
early 2013 and the cemetery at Thorpe is nearing capacity. As such, options
for extending both these cemeteries are being explored by the Council at the
current time.
64 Whilst the Council’s capital spending programme 2011/12 to 2015/16
budgeted £199,000 to extend Addlestone Cemetery in 2013/14 (this money
was for the laying out of a new cemetery on Council owned land), at the
current time all capital spending has been frozen. It is therefore unclear
whether this proposal will be realised during the plan period. There is also an
aspiration to extend Thorpe Cemetery or provide a new cemetery in Thorpe if
additional land and funding becomes available (the cost would be in the
region of £50,000 although there are no funds available for the works at this
time). Both projects would be delivered by RBC.
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