Services

Local authorities may provide grave opening and closing services in local authority owned burial grounds.

You can buy a grave space in a local authority burial ground.

You can apply to a local authority to get a licence to erect a headstone.

Local authorities may arrange to seize stray horses on public land and take them to an animal pound to be reclaimed or rehomed.

Local authorities may maintain a register of approved gravediggers.

Local authorities may test and monitor zoonoses such as bacteria, parasites and viruses which can transfer infectious diseases from animals to humans.