The English Defence League is planning a demonstration in Solihull to protest against proposals for a Muslim cemetery in a nearby village.
Members will gather in the town centre on Saturday, April 18 in connection with plans for burial plots at Catherine-de-Barnes.
Proposals for the scheme were submitted to Solihull Council for a third time last month.
The plans for the burial ground were turned down twice last year after planners said the development would blight Green Belt land.
But Cemetery Development Services Ltd, the agent working on behalf of the applicant, has continued to insist there was a need for a dedicated Muslim cemetery to resolve a shortage of plots for followers of Islam.
The first application for planning permission for the cemetery was for 7,000 plots.
That was reduced to 4,000 in the next application.
The current proposal asks for permission to build a 3,333-plot cemetery with storage, toilet facilities and a garden.
The EDL announced the demonstration on Facebook.
It said: “The Solihull Division alongside the United Midlands will be holding a local demonstration in Solihull town centre on Saturday the 18th April 2015.
“The reason for this local demonstration is because of the third proposed Muslim burial plot in Catherine-de-Barnes.
“We have chosen to do the demonstration in Solihull town centre as Catherine-de-Barnes comes under the Solihull borough and we feel we will have more of an impact in the town centre than turning up in a small area a few miles down the road.”
Thirty arrests were made as the EDL staged a rally in Dudley in February against plans for a new mosque in the town.
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