Agenda item

          The Sub-Committee received a report of the Strategic Director, Health and Community which set out the proposed admission charges for the 2011/12 for the Council Libraries, The Kingsway Learning Centre, Leisure Centres, Parks and Playing Pitches, Halton Athletic Track, Community Centres, Bereavement Services, and The Brindley Arts Centre.

          It was noted that the charges levied against Bereavement Services had been reviewed and compared against adjacent Local Authorities to determine charges. The following changes were recommended:

a)    the lease period for burial plots is reduced from 99 years to 50;

b)    new charges are introduced for researching family history;

c)     the lease period on sanctum vaults is reduced from 99 years to give an option of ten or twenty years.

          RESOLVED: That

1.       the charges as proposed be approved; and

2.       the charges and lease periods levied for Bereavement Services be   approved.