THE deadline to submit views on a plan to transform a disused and overgrown crematorium in Whalley has now passed.

The Ribble Valley Remembrance Park in Mitton Road was the final resting place of 995 patients of Calderstones Hospital from 1915 to 1993.

At the end of the plot is a dedicated area for men from the area who died during the First and Second World Wars which is maintained separately.

A series of planning applications for the site have been approved since 2008 but have not been acted on. Now applicant The Shrine Lancashire said that it has the resources to carry out the plans if they are signed off.

Under the latest proposal a new crematorium and funeral chapel will be erected alongside a 39-space car park.

The woodland near the entrance to the site is expected to be used for people to scatter ashes and space within the original cemetery given over to new burial plots.