Consider links (as appropriate) to City's Environmental Strategy. Consider impacts and access of tourism at cemeteries.
From "Comment on the draft Burial, Cremation and Cemeteries Management Policy"
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Consider links (as appropriate) to the City's Environmental Strategy and National Heritage Resources Act.
Consider impacts of and access granted via tourism at cemeteries and similar sites (e.g. gravesite tours).
Consider lessons learnt from cases such as the exhumation and interment of human remains at Prestwich Memorial. Also consider how, in such a case, communities could ask for the remains to be reinterred somewhere else and what such a process would entail.
In cases like Prestwich, and future sites of a similar nature, consider how the City could manage such cases - especially where it is very difficult to identify descendants.
Consider how the policy could allow for agreements to be established with volunteer and/or heritage organisations (for example) to help care for and maintain graves.
Consider how the policy could allow for interpretative signage to be erected at all cemeteries, etc. to give general information on the cemetery as apposed to only having its name listed, and the associated conduct rules displayed, etc.
Consider how the policy can guide what grave goods may be buried with human remains (e.g. jewelry, totems, religious objects, etc.). Down the line, grave goods associated with a burial could, for example, become significant in terms heritage from a historical, archaeological, or other perspective - as opposed to only the environmental impacts associated with the material nature of such goods.
Consider how the policy could aid in cemeteries, etc. becoming educational tools and sites beyond merely commemorative (e.g. allow for undertaker learnerships via formal agreements with appropriate schools and institutions; provide opportunities for archaeology students, etc. to be permitted to assist with moving of remains, etc.).
Consider how (and if) the policy may address peoples requests to have cremated pets or animals buried with the deceased.
Some of the above could be addressed and/or implemented through an action plan (or framework) linked to the policy and/or relevant City strategies.