Council issues annual request to grave plot owners and visitors to allow spring maintenance and grass cutting
With spring approaching and maintenance and grass cutting about to start at the cemeteries and crematorium grounds it manages, the Council is reminding residents of its annual request to grave plot owners and visitors to take away any remaining Christmas and other festive season tributes and wreaths by the end of Sunday, 16 February.
Anyone who wishes to dispose of or retain their festive season tributes is requested to take them from the cemetery grounds and burial plots. Cemetery staff will then begin to remove any remaining festive season tributes from Monday, 17 February, allowing grass cutting to take place from early March.
The Council’s Cabinet Member for Homes, Planning and Safer Communities, Councillor Christine Warner said:
We understand that our request for the removal of festive season tributes is always a sensitive matter. The Council is mindful of this and so is issuing a gentle reminder to please collect any remaining tributes by the end of Sunday, 16 February. We are committed to the best upkeep of our cemeteries and crematoria, and keen to ensure that we maintain them to a high standard as we move into spring when the main grass-cutting season starts. We are grateful for your help in this.
Grave plot owners and visitors are asked to note that to allow essential maintenance of the grounds, wreaths and tributes will be taken away from the grounds of:
- Blacon Cemetery / Chester crematorium
- Overleigh Cemetery, Chester
- Overpool Cemetery, Ellesmere Port
- Neston Cemetery
- Wharton Cemetery, Winsford
At Chester Crematorium, festive season tributes and any other memorial items not issued by the Council which have been placed in the Garden of Remembrance areas and adjacent to the Book of Remembrance Room, will start to be taken away by cemeteries staff from Monday, 17 February. This is to ensure that these areas can be enjoyed as peaceful areas of contemplation by everyone.
The Council does not remove wreaths from private churchyards.