In May '96, a man in East Sussex won his appeal to the Department of the Environment against his local authority, who had turned down his application for a Certificate of Lawfulness to have two burials in his half acre garden.
This, combined with a number of other Certificates of Lawfulness and the successful appeal against refusal of planning permission by Ian Alcock in Aberdeenshire, who now has the right to a 'limited number' of burials, containable within an area on his farm of 50 metres by 50 metres, would suggest that the scope for burial on private land without planning permission remains as interpreted by the Natural Death Centre:
A 'limited' number of burials (family, friends, those living in the house) on private land do not require planning permission.
For the law on private land burial, see Green Burial by John Bradfield, obtainable for £9-85 (incl. p&p) from The Natural Death Centre (address above).
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