Use our Find a cemetery location search to check the burial options offered at each cemetery.
Once you select the cemetery, contact them directly to book a plot.
We need 24 hours' notice to make changes to the booking.
Plot burials: Up to eight sets of cremated remains can be buried within a plot with the permission of the exclusive burial right holder.
Ashes, garden and lawn memorials: Plots for two sets of ashes. Flat plaques of granite or bronze may be placed on the surrounding grass verge.
Family memorial gardens: Tree memorials offer up to sixteen plots for the interment of ashes.
Columbarium (niche) wall: Our walls have different sized niches. The niches can either hold two or up to four standard urns of ashes.
You can choose to bury two sets of ashes at the same time. This is called a 'double ash burial'.
There is only one fee for a double ash burial.
You can leave wreaths, flowers and adornments on top of the ash plot for up to 28 days after the burial.
Flowers and adornments must be kept within approved receptacles or on the concrete berm in a cemetery The berm in cemetery is the concrete strip next to where the ash/body is interred/buried with the plot number and space to place flowers.. They should not encroach onto the lawn area or neighbouring plots.
If you want to invite guests to attend the ash burial ceremony, you should check for any attendance restrictions or guidelines based on your chosen burial location.
Before your booking time, our grounds team will dig the plot for you.
When you arrive, get in touch with the cemetery office (if open) to find out about the guidelines for burial. A sexton A person who looks after a church and graveyard, typically acting as bell-ringer and grave-digger. team member may be present to assist you.
You can go to your plot and place the urn inside.
You can then:
Our team will top up the plot after everyone has left.
The process of burying ashes at a satellite cemetery Small cemetery with no staff or office. may vary from that of the main cemetery.
Our grounds team will dig and prepare the plot about one hour prior to your burial booking time.
A sexton team member may also be present onsite while you bury the ashes.
When you arrive at the cemetery, you can go straight to your plot and place the urn inside.
You can then:
Our grounds team will be present to backfill and tidy up.
Burials outside of office hours (after 4pm Monday-Saturday and all-day Sunday) are called unassisted ash burials.
Our team will dig the plot for you in advance and cover it with a board.
Upon arrival, you can directly place the urn inside your plot.
If you have burial rights, you will need to provide:
If you don't have burial rights, you can contact us for purchasing a plot.
If you are planning to use one of our chapels you can let us know what you need for your service.
For information about burials, please call us:
0800 4 CEMETERY (0800 423 638)
or email:
west.cemeteries@aucklandcouncil.govt.nz
northern.cemeteries@aucklandcouncil.govt.nz
southern.cemeteries@aucklandcouncil.govt.nz
