The costs of cremation and burial in Stafford and Stone will increase next year but will remain lower than in surrounding areas.
Cremation currently costs £367 and this is set to increase to £395 next year but this compares with £467 for the same service in Walsall and £420 in Newcastle-under-Lyme.
Buying a plot in a graveyard in Stafford and Stone is currently £450 less than the same space in Stoke-on-Trent.
It is set to increase to £670 next year but this will still be lower than Walsall, Wolverhampton and Stoke-on-Trent where a final resting place would cost £920.
Changes in burial and cremation fees will come into effect in January at the Tixall Road site. The increases are expected to be approved by Stafford Borough Council’s cabinet today. [1]
Stafford is currently ranked the seventh best provider of burial and cremation service in England and Wales and has previously been voted Best Crematoria in the West Midlands.
Councillor Stan Highfield, cabinet member for environment and health, said: “The crematorium still provides excellent value for money.
“As a facility offering both cremation and burial services the Tixall Road site is up there with the best in the country.
“With these increase we are moving the costs nearer to the levels of other authorities nearby, but they will still be lower than most.
“We have spent a lot of money on the site in recent years, and rightly so.”
5 Comments
‘Excellent value for money’ ???
Well its not like people are going to complain or ask for their money back because grandad wasn’t cremated properly is it?
If you’re not satisfied to get a refund or a free voucher for burning another of your relatives?
I’m getting on a bit now so had better pop my clogs before they put the charges up. Better bury me quickly because if I’m left at the top of the hole for too long the local metal thieves will come along and steal my coffin’s handles. This will delay the burial so my unfortunate family my get charged for fly tipping. If I am still not buried then the environment officers will plant another charge on them for creating a hazardous to health as I start to get a bit wiffy. Oh well I sure the youths running riot around the area will eventually find me, give my wooden box a fancy paint job with their spray cans and finally give my coffin a good kicking before they roll me over the edge and into my grave.
I’m in the wrong trade! Weddings and funerals kids, thats what to do when you leave school!!!!
Sounds like they are making sure you don’t take it with you.
Excellent value for money..lol..free heating and a trip on the wind if your lucky!
Why complain…we all die..and we all have to end up somewhere.
As long as i dont end up in an egg timer im happy..lol