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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.