Applications need to be received with no fewer than one working day's notice (Monday to Friday) for Christchurch City cemeteries and no fewer than two working days' notice for Banks Peninsula cemeteries.
For general enquiries, please contact us online(external link), call 03 941 8646 or email cemeteries@ccc.govt.nz.
Pay a cemetery bill by credit card.
Cemetery records are held in a number of different places.
Burial and ashes plots can be purchased directly from the Council or through your funeral director.
Apply for burial or ash interment.
Council-operated cemeteries are open seven days a week.
List of fees including burial, ashes interment, disinterment and plot purchase fees.
Support with repairs and maintenance of monuments and headstones.
Location of the 22 operating cemeteries and five closed cemeteries administered by Council.
Information about the five closed cemeteries in Christchurch.
The conditions that apply to activities and conduct in cemeteries.
Cemeteries are open for public visiting seven days a week.
Request, report and pay for Council services.
Apply for building and resource consents.
Manage your library borrowing.
Receive your rates invoice by email.
Take full control of your Rec and Sport membership.
List your events on What’s On Christchurch
Request, report and pay for Council services.
Apply for building and resource consents.
Manage your library borrowing.
Receive your rates invoice by email.
Take full control of your Rec and Sport membership.
List your events on What’s On Christchurch
