Service Charter for Cemeteries
Bereavement Services will:
- Open our cemeteries for 365 days per year.
- Display our opening times at the entrance to each cemetery.
- Give you information on facilities for burial, baby graves and woodland burial
- Carry out a burial at 3 working days notice.
- Ensure that the grave is dug to specified dimensions in preparation for the burial and ensure that on the day of the funeral that the grave presentation is to a high standard.
- Ensure a high standard of horticultural maintenance in Cemeteries. The grass will be cut on a cycle of 3 weeks during the growing season April to September.
- Process applications for the erection of memorials within 7 working days.
- Inspect 2000 memorials each year to ensure that they are safe.