Campaigners have been busily investigating details behind plansfor an eco-cemetery.
They say a green burial site in Sundridge is unfeasible, giventhe soil quality.
Michael Stokes, who lives in Church Road, Sundridge, said: "Ithink a few minutes' internet research and thought indicates thatthe scheme is nothing like a green or natural burial site.
"This is a cover for an industrial-scale burial operation. A fewdigitally re-imaged pretty pictures do not disguise the reality thatthis is inappropriate and enormously damaging for the green belt.
"Apart from a lack of traditional headstones and the scatteringof wildflower seeds, the application is no different to aconventional cemetery.
"Gault clay - which forms the subsoil of much of this part of theDarenth Valley and has, in the Combe Bank case, been added to byadditional depths of clay from the M25 - means construction isunsuitable and expensive for burials."
Partner at planning consultants Barton Willmore Huw Edwards said:"Our landscape development, maintenance and management plan for thesite has given due regard to the nature of the soil and has selectedappropriate species of plants.
"Recently we received support for our proposals from the KentWildlife Trust, which recognised our conservation plans wouldenhance the area's ecology."
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