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Report by Executive Director with responsibility for Roads and Infrastructure

The Committee gave consideration to a report providing an update on the current ·¬ÇÑÊÓƵapp cemetery provision and highlighting interventions within the asset group since it was last reported to committee in 2019.Ìý The report provided a revised list of at risk assets based on current figures and a revised projection model. Overall the number of high risk assets had reduced since 2019.

Decision

The Environment, Development and Infrastructure Committee –

1.    endorsed the works done to date to reduce the number of high risk cemetery assets;

2.    endorsed and approved the temporary local arrangement to restrict the pre-sale of lairs to protect the cemetery capacity;

3.    noted the future capital investment required in this asset group; and

4.    noted that a further report on cemetery assets would be brought forward to the March Environment, Development and Infrastructure Committee meeting, which would present options for reviewing the current ·¬ÇÑÊÓƵapp as well as management of cemetery assets in the context of current needs and future demands.

Councillor Donald Kelly having moved an amendment which failed to find a seconder, requested that his dissent be recorded from the foregoing decision.

(Reference:Ìý Report by Executive Director with responsibility for Roads and Infrastructure Services dated November 2022, submitted)