The university has applied for permission to remove part of a listed wall which separates the car park from the grounds of a former school.

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The generators are protected with a flood wall and a sump pump to remove any water that seeps in.

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However, the commission said its preferred option was to "remove the screen wall and erect a new screen wall at a more suitable location down in the service plot area" of the cemetery.

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