Missed opportunity of crematorium works

Sir, – My wife and I recently set out to attend a funeral at Perth Crematorium.

Aware that there would be a large attendance, we left home early and actually arrived at the rear of the crematorium building 35 minutes before the service was due to commence.

There we ground to a halt as it appeared that the car park was full. A sign indicated that there was overflow parking in the area near the garden of remembrance but for some reason the barrier was closed.

Instead we were instructed to proceed through the car park to the road out where we could park, but not on the yellow lines which were on our left hand side.

As cars were still coming in it was difficult to cross over and the narrowness of the road did not help.

We are both elderly and not as mobile as we once were. Faced with a long walk back, plus the possibility of having to stand throughout the service, we had no option but to return home.

Bearing in mind the length of time the crematorium was closed for refurbishment perhaps the opportunity should have been taken to improve and possibly extend the car parking facilities and widen the access road in order to cope with funerals which are obviously going to attract a large attendance.

RG Macdonald. Craiglinn, Abernethy

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