Fees for cremations, burials and memorials

Cemetery fees for residents and non-residents of Brighton & Hove

Fees apply to all purchases of grave rights, interment and ashes interment.

Where a non-resident is to be buried a non-resident fee will apply regardless of the status of the grave owner.

Grants of exclusive right of burial

All graves are subject to availability.

The Purchase of the Grant of Exclusive Right of Burial is for a period of 50 years.

All Rights of Ownership can be purchased in advance if required.

Should a coffin be larger than the grave space requested, then an adjoining grave space may need to be purchased in order to accommodate the burial, and appropriate additional charges made.

The Exclusive Right of Burial can be extended for a further 25 years after the initial grant has expired. The fee for this service will be half of the purchase fee at the time of renewal.

Interment

This can only be arranged where the exclusive right of burial has been purchased

Interment fees include:

• excavating the grave
• supplying timbers
• supplying lowering webbing and grass matting
• filling and mounding the grave and leaving the grave tidy, with any floral tributes placed on the grave
• topping up the grave during the first year
• levelling and grass seeding after a year

Cemetery chapel fees

The term Cemetery Chapel refers to the Hove and Extra-Mural Chapels and they are only available on weekdays.

For use of Woodvale chapels see fees for cremations at Woodvale crematorium.

Ashes

All are subject to staff availability.

* except Christmas Day, Boxing Day and New Year’s Day.

Where 2 persons are interred in a single grave space at the same time, including cremated remains, the second interment fee will be reduced by 50%.

Bio-degradable ashes containers

Suitable for burial at all cemeteries

Cemetery fees for non-residents

The cemetery fees for residents of Brighton & Hove apply when the person:

• to be interred was a resident at the time of death
• acquiring the Grant of Exclusive Right of Burial is a resident

When neither of these applies, non-residents’ fees will apply.

Residential status 

A resident is defined as:

• any person who has, or at the time of death had, a permanent address within the boundary of Brighton & Hove City Council, or who had lived permanently within the city in the preceding 5 years
• any person who at the time of death had a permanent address in the Parish of Peacehaven (subject to review)
• in the case of a child, a parent who meets the above criteria
• any person in the care of Brighton & Hove City Council, Adult Social Care

To qualify for resident status:

• when purchasing grave rights, the purchaser needs to be a resident
• when arranging a burial (including ashes burial), the deceased needs to have been a resident

Other cemetery charges

Permit fee to erect a memorial on a grave

Woodland Valley memorial

Other memorials are available, please contact us for prices.