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PLANS to hand over maintenance of Wirral’s parks and countryside services to the private sector are to be dramatically scaled back. Wirral Council had hoped to save up to £10m over the next decade with its parks and countryside services procurement exercise. However, new plans have seen the extent of the contract to be offered to private companies significantly reduced.

Mourners can expect an environmentally-friendly and ‘visually sympathetic’ facility, say developers Developers behind what is poised to be Aberdeenshire’s first crematorium have revealed their green vision for the multimillion-pound centre. Edinburgh-based architect David Gauld is steering the project earmarked for Crimond, near Fraserburgh, and said mourners can expect an environmentally-friendly facility that is “visually sympathetic” to the local landscape.

Shrewsbury Town Council wants to take over the running of the Emstrey Crematorium amid fears it will be sold off by Shropshire Council in a multi-million pound deal. Bosses of the unitary authority said last year they were considering off-loading the site and the town’s cemetery in a bid to find ways of saving £65 million over the next three years. It came after it was revealed a bill of up to £1.5m would be due to replace crematorium equipment to cut mercury emissions caused by dental fillings, on top of an expected bill of about £600,000 for building works.

A BIGGER furnace is being built at Stafford Crematorium - following an increase in overweight dead people. Stafford Borough Council's three "cremators" are being replaced as part of a national drive to reduce mercury emissions from crematoriums. One of the two new machines will be a larger cremator - capable of holding bigger coffins.

Feedback gathered at consultation event will help to shape planning permission application A second set of plans for a crematorium in Aberdeenshire have gone on public display. The multimillion-pound centre is earmarked for a 14-acre plot of land between Longside and Stuartfield, near Mintlaw.

MOURNING families in the North East could be forced to shell out more to say goodbye to their loved ones. From January 2013, the Government has asked all local authorities to reduce emissions of crematoria mercury from crematoriums by 50%. But not all crematoriums in the region will be able to meet this criteria and as a result families could see an extra fee added to charges at some crematoriums.

Plans to run a more “commercial” operation at Cambridge crematorium, which could include the introduction of futuristic technologies, were approved yesterday. A business plan calls for income from the sale of memorials to be increased and possible opening of a flower shop, café, and service for pets. A “watching brief” will now be maintained over new methods of disposing of bodies, including freeze-drying and dissolving.

A council in Essex is seeking a deal with a private company to partner them in refurbishing and running a cemetery and a crematorium built in 1961. On offer is a share in Parndon Wood Cemetery and Crematorium in Harlow. The town council's executive committee agreed to move forward with plans to offer a contract to a private company and a 25-year lease is on offer.

Undertakers in the Austrian capital say they're planning to use a crematorium to help heat their new headquarters. Bestattung Wien spokesman Juergen Sild says cremation requires generating very high temperatures and that the idea, in times of environmental awareness

A CREMATORIUM is to be expanded with modern equipment and more office space. The work is planned for Bron y Nant crematorium near Mochdre. The scheme would involve installing equipment to cut mercury emissions, demolishing an existing machine room and lobby and building a single storey extension, and an extension between the chapel and existing offices for extra space.