to create a beautiful tranquil place which reflects the Holderness landscape. A place where people of all ages feel at ease, somewhere which helps families and friends to remember and celebrate the lives of their loved ones in a positive and hopefully enriching way.
The project offers numerous benefits to local residents, businesses and communities. It will provide an opportunity to shorten the distance people have to travel, thus reducing the carbon footprint, and will support the economy through the creation of jobs and trade for related businesses. We will consider how we can help to address funeral poverty and the build will be as environmentally friendly as possible, through its design and the use of technology.
The site we have chosen will not have any detrimental impact on local communities and it will be designed with a very natural, green feel and look, including the planting of new trees, and it will be sensitive to the nature of the site and the purpose it will be used for.
Consultation carried out with the local community and funeral directors showed that there is strong support for the development of a new crematorium in the area; 93% of residents who responded were in favour of the development.
We hope that people will appreciate how much focus is being put into creating a much-needed facility with a sense of place at its heart.
The council’s priorities are to support local residents and businesses, grow the local economy and value our environment and we are confident that this project contributes to all those goals.
Our vision is to:
| create a much-needed facility with a sense of place at its heart, a place for people to remember their loved ones local to where they live | |
| be appropriate and sensitive to the needs of different faiths and beliefs | |
| consider how we can help reduce funeral poverty | |
| shorten the distance people have to travel and reduce the carbon footprint | |
| support the economy through the creation of jobs and trade for related businesses | |
| help the wider funeral and bereavement sector be more sustainable for the future | |
| use environmentally-conscious features through the design and the use of technology | |
| change perceptions and demystify death and crematoria |
The vision is to create a public facility that is designed with a sense of place at its heart.
We have been developing some initial design impressions (see below) influenced by the rural location, topography and agricultural setting. It was important that local communities and residents had the opportunity to comment on the design through consultation.
