FOI request (FOIR-137549850)

Crematorium

Requested Thu 15 August 2019
Responded Mon 16 September 2019

Response

Q1 - The cremators were replaced with the addition of abatement equipment in 2011 at a cost of £36990.50

2013-14  the chapel was reordered and decorated, the pews were removed and chairs put in, increasing seating from 60 -74 and air conditioning was fitted, the works were around £50,000.

2014-2015 when we built a new under cover flower display area away from the building.  https://www.fordingbridge.co.uk/case-studies/hastings-crematorium/

At the same time we refurbished and re-purposed the old flower display area (which originally was the south chapel) to an overflow room/ chapel with 40 seats and a 65” screen, increasing our capacity to 114 seated.

At the same time we put in a new sound system and hearing loop for both rooms.

The full works came to over £120,000.

Internally the cremators were full re-lined 2016-2017 at just under £39,000 each.

Smaller works, the waiting room was re-painted and carpeted in 2017-18, along with touching up various doors, windows gates and other fixtures. Around the same time the office building, built in 1856, had roofing and pointing work, and a new widow, the works were just over £25,000.

Q2 -

The two very large chapel windows are due to be renovated and repaired next year.

Both cremators are due new hearths over the next 6 months and full relines  2021/22.

The approach roads will need resurfacing in places in the next 2-3 years.

The chapel furniture etc. will be due to replaced 2022/23