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Item CH 18/26 referred from Communities and Housing Advisory Board minutes of 12 November 2018

A supplementary report is also attached for Members’ consideration.

(Item CH 18/26 referred from Communities and Housing Advisory Board minutes of 12 November 2018)

Consideration of recommendations to the Cabinet from the Communities and Housing Advisory Board of 12 November 2018.

A supplementary report was circulated regarding the Council’s approach to cemetery charges for children’s burials in the light of pending Government legislation.

The Cabinet resolved that:

The recommendations of the Communities and Housing Advisory Board be approved as amended as follows:

(1)             the existing charges for child burials at Tonbridge Cemetery be amended, with future burials for all under 18 year olds being free of charge with immediate effect; and

(2)             subject to (1) above, the proposed charges for Tonbridge Cemetery, as detailed at Annex 2 to the report to the Communities and Housing Advisory Board, be approved and implemented with effect from 1 April 2019.

Decision Notice D190006CAB

The report outlines charging proposals for 2019/20 regarding Tonbridge Cemetery.

The joint report of the Director of Street Scene, Leisure and Technical Services and the Director of Finance and Transformation outlined the proposed charges for 2019/20 with regard to Tonbridge Cemetery. 

RECOMMENDED:  That the proposed charges for Tonbridge Cemetery, as detailed at Annex 2 to the report, be agreed and implemented with effect from 1 April 2019.

*Referred to Cabinet