Shellharbour council to ban fake and ‘excessive’ flowers at graves

Kate McIlwain
Updated July 5 2018 - 10:50pm, first published 9:00pm
No longer allowed: Artificial flowers or excessive natural floral arrangements,or those displayed in more than two unbreakable vases will be banned under a new Shellharbour council cemetery policy. Picture: Robert Peet.
No longer allowed: Artificial flowers or excessive natural floral arrangements,or those displayed in more than two unbreakable vases will be banned under a new Shellharbour council cemetery policy. Picture: Robert Peet.

Fake flowers, excessive floral arrangements and fragile or breakable objects will be banned in Illawarra cemeteries under a new policy designed to bring consistency to the city’s final resting sites.

Kate McIlwain

Kate McIlwain

Journalist

For more than a decade, I've helped the Illawarra Mercury set the news agenda across the region. Currently I'm the paper's health reporter - covering the stories of Illawarra workers and residents in the wake of a global pandemic and at a time where our health systems are stretched to the limit.

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