Funeral home Campbell and Sons Ltd has been granted resource consent for a 24-hour, seven-day a-week crematorium at 175 Dukes Rd. The company had not applied for a building consent and Mr Campbell could not say when the crematorium would be operational. The 5354sq m section in Dukes Rd falls within an industrial zone, and the consent notes crematoriums fall within the council’s definition of industrial activity. The Dukes Rd site is next to a farm and tractor machinery and sales operation on one boundary, and on the eastern boundary, as the zoning changes, an equestrian centre. Hope and Sons opened a crematorium at 169 Dukes Rd in 2015.

Source: Otago Daily Times September 09, 2020 16:38 UTC