Committee 1 - BURIAL

MELBOURNE PARISH COUNCIL

COMMITTEE 1 - BURIAL

Members of Committee 1 -
Burial:

Councillor Freeman - Chairman
Councillor Hicklin - Vice Chairman
Councillor Carpenter
Councillor Carroll
Councillor Collyer
Councillor Crawford
Councillor Dunnicliff
Councillor Earp
Councillor Howard
Councillor Jackson
Councillor Minifie
Councillor Parker
Councillor Sharp
Councillor Smith
Councillor Willmore

2012 Committee meeting dates:

Monday, 09 January
Monday, 13 February
Monday, 12 March
Tuesday, 10 April
Tuesday, 08 May
Monday, 11 June
Monday, 09 July
Monday, 10 September
Monday, 08 October
Monday, 12 November
Monday, 10 December

Venue and times below.

Melbourne Cemetery,
Packhorse Road.

Please note the following venues and times of Burial Committee meetings:

October to March	Normally, 7.30pm in the Council Room of the Bill Shone Leisure Centre, High Street, Melbourne.
April to September	Normally, 7.15pm in the Cemetery Chapel, Packhorse Road, Melbourne.

The Packhorse Road Cemetery is owned and maintained by the Melbourne Parish Council, whose mission is to provide a respectful and dignified environment for the interment and remembrance of the people who lived in the Parish of Melbourne. Visitors to the Cemetery are welcomed and asked to respect and share the pride taken in its appearance and maintenance.

In 2002, Melbourne came second in the Best Cemetery Competition in the whole of the UK and Ireland. Melbourne Parish Council is responsible for maintenance of the grounds and Garden of Remembrance, burials, interments, and the erection of memorials. A Safety Check has recently been undertaken on headstones and memorials as part of an ongoing Health and Safety procedure.

Pictured left is the Village Sexton, Robert Holman, to whom any enquiries or comments should be addressed. Telephone 07966 461416.

Fees applicable from 01 April 2011 are given below.

MELBOURNE BURIAL GROUND FEES

The fees, payments and sums set out below apply where the person to be interred, or in respect of whom the right is granted is, or immediately before death was, a parishioner of the Parish of Melbourne or, in the case of a still-born child, where the parents, or one of them, are, or at the time of interment were, parishioners.

In all other cases, the fees relating to headstones and inscriptions shall be double; all other charges will be triple those shown, except that:

Where a person who, whilst a parishioner, has acquired the exclusive right of burial in a grave or vault then, whether or not that person remains a parishioner, the following fees for his or her interment, or for the interment of a spouse, parent, sibling or child of such person shall not be subject to triple fees.
Where any person dies within a period of three years after he or she has ceased to reside in the Parish and without having purchased an exclusive right of burial, the fees for interment shall not be subject to triple fees.

PART ONE - Interments

The fees indicated:

Include the digging or opening of the grave
Apply only where the interment is made between the hours of 9.00 and 16.00 on a weekday, or between the hours of 10.00 and 11.00 on a Saturday, or on the certificate of a Coroner or a registered Medical Practitioner that an immediate interment is necessary.
Apply to graves in respect of which an exclusive right of burial has been purchased only when interment is at a depth not exceeding 5 feet 6 inches (165 cm).

For the interment in any grave:

	Standard Price	Triple Price
(1) of the body of a still-born child or of a child whose age did not exceed one month (burial to take place in a grave selected by the council). If otherwise, the charges to be the same as those of a child under the age of 17 years	No Charge	No Charge
(2) of the body of a person whose age at the time of death did not exceed 17 years	No Charge	No Charge
(3) of the body of a person whose age at time of death exceeded 17 years	Ł330	Ł990
For interment (other than cremated remains in a vault)	Ł366	Ł1098
For the interment of cremated remains in a grave or vault	Ł48	Ł144
For the right to scatter cremated remains in the Garden of Remembrance	Ł48	Ł144
For the right to bury cremated remains in a half plot	Ł48	Ł144

PART TWO - Purchase of exclusive rights of burial in earthen graves

	Standard Price	Triple Price
For the exclusive right of burial for 100 years, in earthen grave 6 feet by 3 feet (210 x 90 cm)	Ł357	Ł1071
For the exclusive right of burial for 100 years of cremated remains in an earthen grave 3' 6" by 3 feet (105 x 90 cms)	Ł260	Ł780
For the exclusive right of burial for 100 years of cremated remains in the half plot area of the burial ground	Ł176	Ł528

PART THREE - Walled Graves and Vaults

	Standard Price	Triple Price
For the right to construct, and for the exclusive right of burial for 100 years in a walled grave or vault 7 feet by 3 feet (240 x 90 cms)	Ł543	Ł1629
The fees indicated for the various heads of Parts Two and Three include the Deed of Grant and all expenses thereof.

PART FOUR - Monuments, Gravestones, Tablets & Monumental Inscriptions

For the right to erect or place on a grave or vault:

	Standard Price	Double Price
A headstone, tablet or other monument not exceeding 3' 6" in height, 3' 0" in width, and 1' 6" in depth. (105 x 90 x 45 cms)	Ł113	Ł226
A vase (where there is no other memorial) There shall be no charge for a vase which is deemed part of a memorial	Ł113	Ł226
For the right to affix an approved plaque to the wall surrounding the garden of remembrance	Ł134	Ł268
The fees in this Part Four include the first inscription. For each inscription after the first, the fees are as follows:
Where there has been an interment	Ł113	Ł226
Where there has not been an interment	Ł134	Ł268
PLEASE NOTE: The design of memorials and inscriptions is subject to the approval of the council, and may be provided only in respect of graves where the exclusive right of burial has been purchased.