People in Maitland are outraged after they claim the council failed to protect a historic cemetery from a surrounding development.
The cemetery is one of the oldest in the Hunter Valley, with nearly 200-year-old graves acting as the final resting place for Maitland settlers.Driver, passenger seen leaving wreckage of crash after boys killed"I don't know how they approved it... it should never have been approved," Joshua Bower said.
But local historian Peter Fox said Maitland Council should have adopted a buffer zone around the cemetery given its historical significance.
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