Emstrey Crematorium rescue bid on council agenda
Tuesday 18th January 2011, 6:00PM GMT.
A potential rescue bid to save Shrewsbury’s Emstrey Crematorium from falling into private hands will be discussed behind closed doors next week by members of the town council.
Shrewsbury Town Council wants to take over the running of the Emstrey Crematorium amid fears it will be sold off by Shropshire Council in a multi-million pound deal.
Bosses of the unitary authority said last year they were considering off-loading the site and the town’s cemetery in a bid to find ways of saving £65 million over the next three years.
It came after it was revealed a bill of up to £1.5m would be due to replace crematorium equipment to cut mercury emissions caused by dental fillings, on top of an expected bill of about £600,000 for building works.
The town council will meet on January 24, when details of a proposed tender will be discussed as an exempt item.
Councillor Peter Nutting, from Shrewsbury Town Council, said: “It’s quite a complex issue but we are getting our facts and figures together and hopefully we will be making a serious bid to run the crematorium at some point in the future.”
Councillor Nutting, who is also a member of Shropshire Council, said the proposed bid could also include the running of churchyards and cemeteries in the area.
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I thought that this work had been done several years ago?
I remember reading about it costing about £500,000 and had to be done to meet EU guidelines on emmissions.
This was particularly relevant given its position next to a college which was questioned as not being a good idea at the time it was built.
Was the work sidelined because the theatre costs shot up to around £32 million?
Us taxpayers have no way of knowing but morally it was an urgent matter I would have thought.
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