Can I Be Buried in My Garden When I Die in the UK?
So another question we’re often asked is, “can I be buried in my garden?” And the answer is, maybe. I’m Simon Welham, I’m the owner and the managing director of Welham Jones Funerals and Memorials here in Tunbridge Wells and across West Kent, and south east London. The reason the answer is maybe is that it depends on your local authority, and it also depends on the Environment Agency vis-à-vis the water table.
Most local authorities will allow an interment in the garden, provided it is limited. Sevenoaks its two. Tonbridge and Malling it’s five after which you need to apply for change of use to a cemetery. But there is a rup. If you are buried in the garden, then if you sell your house, the cost of exhuming those remains and having them reinterred elsewhere, will have to be borne by you.
And you cannot object to your loved one being removed. So that’s Simon Welham, Welham Jones Funerals and Memorials, help at an emotional time.
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