Cremation is of course widely used and ashes will often be interred within the cemetery. You may wish to offer smaller grave spaces for the interment of remains and/or allow burial of ashes into existing graves, provided the grave permissions and capacities allow. It is also common for a garden of remembrance to be set up so that cremated remains can be buried there, or simply to display memorial plaques after ashes have been scattered elsewhere. Best practice is for an area to be set aside for the burial of cremated remains, and for the cemetery policy to take all the options into account.

Procedurally, you may find that burial of cremated remains follows the usual burial formality with a minister of religion, but that will not necessarily be the case and may involve only the funeral director or even just family members.

If ashes are buried within a memorial area, you must make sure that both a new burial and a new memorial are registered.

If a memorial is not on the place of the burial, you can cross reference to the deceased but use the ‘grave number’ to denote the position of the memorial within the memorial area.

You will need to add new burial types within set up to allow for the burial of ashes along with new memorial types and fees so that these can be selected when adding a new application.