GRAVE owners and visitors are being asked to remove all Christmas tributes and wreaths from cemetery grounds and burial plots by Wednesday, February 17.
Cheshire West and Chester Council says they need to be removed to allow grass cutting to take place from early March.
Any remaining festive tributes will start to be removed by cemetery staff from February 18.
Wreaths and tributes need to be removed from the grounds of:
- Blacon Cemetery/Chester crematorium
- Overleigh Cemetery, Chester
- Overpool Cemetery, Ellesmere Port
- Neston Cemetery, Neston
At Chester Crematorium, Christmas tributes and any other memorial items not issued by the council which have been placed in the Garden of Remembrance areas – and also adjacent to the Book of Remembrance Room – will also be removed from February 18.
Cabinet member for environment, councillor Karen Shore said: “The council understands that the removal of Christmas tributes is extremely sensitive and this is why grave owners and visitors are being given notice, so that they may remove their own Christmas tribute should they wish.”
The council does not remove wreaths from private church yards.
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