Cemeteries visitors guide
We welcome visitors of all ages to our cemeteries. To ensure your safety and to help us keep our cemeteries well-maintained, please follow these guidelines.
Safety
During opening hours, you may see us performing maintenance and interment activities. Please do not approach any machinery.
Please supervise children at all times and take care as you walk around the cemetery. Graves may have subsided or eroded and lawn sections can be become uneven.
Tributes
When placing tributes on the graves of your loved ones please follow these guidelines so that our cemeteries can remain safe and welcoming for the community.
We welcome the limited placement of fresh or artificial floral tributes at burial and ashes sites.
For safety reasons, and to abide by our local laws, the following items are not permitted:
- any glass and/or ceramic items
- ornaments
- flags
- photo frames
- solar lights
- windmills
- candles
- toys
- wind chimes
- potted or any plants in the earth
- garden decorations
- seasonal decorations
- food or beverage items and packaging.
These items can become a safety hazard and may damage plaques.
Removal of tributes
At times we remove tributes when they have deteriorated, or so routine maintenance can be undertaken. Tributes may also be removed if they may pose a safety risk during severe weather events.
As plaques lie flat in some lawn sections of our cemeteries, tributes have to be removed for mowing and surface maintenance. Seasonally this can occur frequently. We understand that these tributes are important to you and your loved ones, and we make every effort to take the utmost care. However, we are unable to guarantee the replacement of tributes so strongly advise against leaving anything of great value or meaning.
Please ensure that your contact details are up to date with us so that in the event of damage or removal of items we can contact you for collection. You can update your details by emailing cemeteries@goldcoast.qld.gov.au.