Shellharbour Cemetery
Opening hours: Open daily from sunrise to sunset. Onsite parking available.
Shellharbour Cemetery is one of the city's oldest cemeteries, with recorded burials dating back to the 1800s. It is managed in accordance with Council's Cemetery Operations Policy and associated procedures.
The cemetery provides a range of burial and memorial options and is divided into lawn and mixed headstone/monument sections. Pre-reserved niches, landscaped rockeries and burial plots are also available for approved ash interments.
Burial and memorial options
Niche and Rockery Memorials
Families with reserved niche or rockery sites may place ashes within these areas following Council approval. Council officers will advise on the memorial options available for each site type.
Memorial Garden
Ashes are interred within landscaped garden plots and marked with a small stainless-steel plaque affixed to the kerb. Granite memorials may be installed subject to Council approval and design requirements.
Headstone and Monument Sections
Families may choose either a headstone or full monument memorial, subject to Council requirements and site limitations. A maximum of two interments may be permitted, subject to approval.
Lawn Sections
Only approved plaque memorials may be installed. Flowers may be placed in the allocated vase holders. Additional memorials such as rockery gardens, breakable items or other tributes are not permitted.
Types of plaques
Plaques provide a lasting memorial for lawn burial plots and ash placement sites. A range of cast bronze and stainless steel plaque options are available.
For the installation of a granite plaque, please contact a Council-approved stonemason.
Fees and Charges
Forms
- Application for Interment Right
- Application for Interment Permit
- Application to become an approved Contractor to carry out works in Council Cemeteries
- Application to Carry out Works at Shellharbour Council Cemeteries
- Application for a Cast Bronze Plaque
- Cemetery requirements and monument regulations
- Construction guidelines for headstones and monuments
- Memorial plaque application form
- Application for Interment of Cremated Remains
- Removal of ashes application form
- Application for Stainless Steel Plaque
Find out more
If you have questions about burial options, memorials, ashes interments or reserving a cemetery site, please contact Council's Cemetery Administration team on (02) 4221 6111 between 8.30am and 4.30pm, Monday to Friday.
Our Cemetery Administration Officers can also assist with applications and approvals by appointment at the Shellharbour Civic Centre.
