Services

Local authorities may provide financial support to community operated burial grounds for maintenance and upkeep.

Local authorities maintain a public register of all burials in local authority burial grounds.

You must apply to the local authority for an exhumation licence to exhume the remains of a deceased person.

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 lease properties in good condition from property owners for long term social housing.

Local authorities may buy new houses from property developers for social and affordable housing under Part V of the planning laws.

Local authorities may maintain a register of approved gravediggers.