Application of lawn cemetery regulations to the new extension at Shire Lodge Cemetery

August 27, 2024 Place and Environment Scrutiny Committee (Committee) Awaiting outcome View on council website

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Summary

...to recommend to the Executive that the new extension at Shire Lodge Cemetery be a lawn cemetery with single-depth graves, standardised opening hours, and approved lawn cemetery regulations, while also noting a future report on green burials.

Full council record
Content

 

Resolved that Place and Environment Scrutiny Committee
recommends that a report on the regulations for the new extension
to Shire Lodge Cemetery be submitted to the Executive and that the
committee:
 

(i)           
notes and welcomes the information that a report on the
provision of green burials will be presented to a future
EAP;

(ii)          
The extension area at Shire Lodge Cemetery be a Lawn
Cemetery;

(iii)         
that the digging of new graves will be to a single
depth;

(iv)        
that the opening hours be standardised to match cemeteries
across North Northamptonshire.

(v)         
that the proposed Lawn Cemetery Regulations relating to the
new Shire Lodge Extension be approved.
 
 

Supporting Documents

Appendix A - New Extension - Shire Lodge Cemetery Regulations 2024.pdf
Appendix B - NNC-CCIA-Tool Lawn Cemetery Regs.pdf
Place and Environment Scrutiny Committee Shire Lodge Extension Clean.pdf

Details

Decision date27 Aug 2024