Unauthorised memorials
An unauthorised memorial is any memorial bought into the cemetery without our approval or without signed authorisation of the registered owner.
There are a variety of other unauthorised memorials. The list below gives a brief indication of the types of unauthorised memorials.
These are unauthorised items as they are not grave furniture, can impede health and safety and grounds maintenance, can make the cemetery look untidy or become a nuisance if they become loose during the bad weather and blow around the cemetery and can cause distress if found on someone else’s grave plot:
An unauthorised memorial is any memorial bought into the cemetery without our approval or without signed authorisation of the registered owner.
There are a variety of other unauthorised memorials. The list below gives a brief indication of the types of unauthorised memorials.
These are unauthorised items as they are not grave furniture, can impede health and safety and grounds maintenance, can make the cemetery look untidy or become a nuisance if they become loose during the bad weather and blow around the cemetery and can cause distress if found on someone else’s grave plot:
- trinkets/ornaments
- bottles
- loose/glass vases
- windmills
- garden/flat stones/plaques
- boarder stones
- plastic fences
- grave mounds
- planting of flowers, shrubs or trees on the grave surface
- loose plastic/ceramic flower pots/trough
We are currently reviewing and drafting a policy with regards to unauthorised memorials and how we will deal with the issue.
