Sites are available at Mudgeeraba, Southport General and Southport Lawn Cemeteries. These can be purchased as a single, double or family site. Ashes are interred in the chosen site and a memorial plaque placed over the site.
Memorials pay respect and provide a place for remembrance. By planning ahead you can ensure peace of mind.
There can be great comfort in establishing a permanent symbol to a loved ones remembrance - a point of focus and confidence in having created a historical record. A memorial for a loved one aids individuals in the grieving process and is a tangible record of a life lived.
City of Gold Coast offers a variety of memorials to meet the needs of families commemorating a loved one. To find out more about pre purchasing go to the Selection and ordering page.
Memorial sites in a Garden of Remembrance or columbarium wall are available for the placement of cremated remains.
Sites are available at Mudgeeraba, Southport General and Southport Lawn Cemeteries. These can be purchased as a single, double or family site. Ashes are interred in the chosen site and a memorial plaque placed over the site.
Sites are available at Coomera, Mudgeeraba, Nerang, Pimpama and Southport Lawn Cemeteries. These can be purchased as a single, double or triple site. Ashes are interred in the chosen site and a memorial plaque placed over the site.
Mudgeeraba and Southport Lawn Cemeteries have garden areas available for the placement of a memorial plaque only, where no interment of ashes is required.
A memorial plaque can be purchased through the City. The plaque will be supplied and fixed to a memorial rock within the chosen cemetery.
Additionally a request for a loved one's ashes to be scattered within cemetery grounds is available (subject to a small fee as per the City's fees and charges). A memorial plaque is purchased and details of the deceased and record of the scattering becomes a permanent City record.
Lawn sections cater for burials where a monument or a grave surround is not required. A memorial tablet or plaque is placed on the grave site in accordance with the City's Local Law No 13 (Cemeteries). The remaining grave site surrounds are then turfed and maintained by City staff.
There is to be no ornamentation on the grave or objects fixed to the plaque other than a City supplied vase.
A memorial tablet shall have an upper and lower surface dimension of 530 millimetres x 530 millimetres and shall be either:
Memorial tablets may have a 13 millimetres diameter vase hole which shall be located 50 millimetres from the top and situated on the vertical centre line.
The City has recently developed a number of sections within its cemeteries which are of lawn beam construction. These have been developed where a monument or a grave surround is not required.
Currently these sections are located at the Mudgeeraba and Southport Lawn Cemeteries. Specification for each cemetery is as follows.
A memorial tablet/plaque is placed on a desk in the beamed section in accordance with the City's Local Law No 13 (Cemeteries).The remaining gravesite surrounds are turfed and maintained only by the City's cemeteries staff. The City provides the desk for these sections at a small cost. The desk face size for holding memorial tablets within these sections is 480 millimetres (width) x 330 millimetres (height).
Plaques or memorial tablets to be placed upon these desks cannot be larger than the desk face size. City staff only, are authorised to install the memorial tablet. Memorial tablets not obtained through the City should be treated as per the instructions for memorial tablets for lawn sections as described above.
The following conditions apply to the erection and installation of a headstone/memorial tablet in the lawn beam (monumental) section of Mudgeeraba Cemetery:
A permit to construct a memorial tablet must be obtained from the City prior to work starting, download the appropriate form. Complete and submit with appropriate documentation and relevant fee.
Standard headstone and grave surrounds can be placed in monumental sections. Above ground vault sites are available at Southport General Cemetery.
Headstone or monuments in monumental cemeteries may be installed by private arrangement through a monumental mason. Form 6 Monument Permit Application and relevant fee is to be forwarded to the City for approval prior to any work commencing on site. Detailed drawings, including dimensions are to accompany the application.
On receipt of the application a check is made to ensure construction will be in accordance with the Australian Standard AS4204-1994 (Headstones and Cemetery Monuments) guidelines and the length and width of the monument does not exceed the gravesite dimension.
If a monument is not required a City supplied memorial plaque can be installed on the grave as an alternative.
Application for this can be made through the City Administration.
A permit to perform monumental works must be obtained from the City prior to work starting, download the appropriate form. Complete and submit with appropriate documentation and relevant fee.
See applications and forms below
Please note: A person other than the burial right holder of the grave site in concern must obtain and submit written approval by the burial right holder before a license/permit can be issued.
Shrubs (not trees) may be planted on the grave site. Ongoing maintenance of the site and shrubs is the responsibility of the burial right holder and/or family.
The City does not accept responsibility for the maintenance of any monument. A monument always remains the responsibility of the burial right holder or family and descendants.
The City reserves the right to remove any monument (after due notice to the family or descendants) if it becomes a danger to cemetery staff or visitors. See below.
Removal of memorials
Mudgeeraba Lawn Cemetery
Southport lawn beam section
Monumental sections