Wallacia locals fight against plans for two cemeteries as Sydney runs out of burial space

There’s a blueprint to combat Sydney’s future shortage of graves, but many residents around two proposed cemeteries aren’t keen on sharing their suburb with more than 800,000 spirits.

Wallacia, a semi-rural suburb about 70 kilometres west of the CBD, is the subject of two separate cemetery plans — one by the Catholic Metropolitan Cemeteries Trust (CMCT) and another by an undisclosed applicant.

Combined, they could become the final resting place of 802,000 people and offer a much-needed solution to…