DERELICT cemetery buildings that attract vandals look likely to be demolished.
Middlesbrough Borough Council is this week expected to approve the demolition of the toilet block at Acklam cemetery and the North Ormesby Lodge building.
The toilet block at Acklam was closed two years ago, due to complaints about its smell, lack of hand washing facilities and the fact that it was vandalised. It is hoped that in the future, it can be replaced by a modern prefabricated unit costing £16,000.
The North Ormesby lodge has been boarded up for ten years, and due to vandalism, has become structurally unsafe. Residents complain that it attracts anti-social behaviour.
While the council has made attempts to restore the building, gaining a quote of £30,000 in 1998, it is now considered beyond repair.
If councillors agree, it would be replaced by extra graves or a car park on the overcrowded site. Local people's views would be sought before the buildings were demolished, at a cost of £15,000.
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