Plans to extend Gelligaer Cemetery and increase the number of burial spaces at the site have been submitted to the council’s planning department.
The proposals to extend the site comes after a Caerphilly County Borough Council report which found there were only 50 new graves available within the existing cemetery boundary – enough to last 16 months.
The scheme to extend the cemetery, which has been in operation since 1935, will be carried out in two phases to provide an extra 770 graves.
Cllr David Poole, Caerphilly County Borough Council’s Cabinet Member for Community and Leisure Services, said: “Gelligaer Cemetery has served the local community in a municipal capacity for the last 78 years. However there is now a critical need to extend the site to accommodate future burials and alleviate the increased pressure neighbouring municipal cemeteries would face if space at Gelligaer Cemetery was not increased.”