Moncrieff<\/a>, UCC lecturer Dr Kate Falconer said while it is possible, it is certainly not an easy thing to organise.\u00a0<\/p>\n\u201cIn order to be buried on your own private property, you have to go to your local authority, you have to get planning permission to, essentially, establish a cemetery for one or two or three people on your own land,\u201d she explained.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cAs anyone who has gone for planning permission for any form building activity knows, that can be a very long process and there can be lots of forms and lots of back and forth at the local authority.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cFor burial in particular, you\u2019re going to be looking at things like digging test hole, to make sure you\u2019re not too close to the ground water,\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cEnvironmental impacts, roads and heritage, that kind of thing are all going to need to be looked at as well.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
However, Dr Falconer warned that graveyards are not popular and people can \u201cgenerally expect some objections being lodged\u201d if they plan one.<\/p>\n
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