Decision details

To advise Members of the requirement for a major infrastructure upgrade to the existing crematorium plant and buidings.

RESOLVED that,

subject to the necessary budgetary approvals of the full Council, as detailed at recommendations 6) and 7) below,

1)        a programme of replacement  of and installation of one new cremator, complete with mercury abatement equipment, at a current cost in the region of £575,000, be carried out;

2)        a programme of civil works be undertaken to improve the public and staff areas of the crematorium buildings, at a cost of £380,000;

3)        a defined study be carried out in relation to energy recovery and re-use for both internal and external purposes;

4)        specialist and technical support be employed to assist the Bereavement Services Manager with the management and implementation of this project, at a cost of £32,500;

5)        expenditure of up to the total sum approved by the Council, for the purposes defined in the report, be approved in accordance with Standing Order 41; and

RECOMMENDED that

6)        the Council, if it is established that it is economically viable to recover waste energy and to re-use it for internal and external purposes, implement the recommended programmes for such re-use.  Initial research indicates that internal re-use will be economically viable so a sum of £70,000 has been included in the Capital Programme for this aspect of the project.

7)        up to £757,500 be allocated from the Capital Programme for the purposes indicated in the report; and

8)         the Capital Programme be amended accordingly.