0 a place where a dead person is prepared to be buried or burned, and where relatives and friends can see the body --
If one organisation owns the funeral parlours, crematoriums and cemeteries and provides the prepayment plans, that clearly means the removal of choice and a reduction of competition.
Extraordinarily and bizarrely, that order places newsagents and many other retail outlets in the same use category as funeral parlours.
The presence of outlets that provide essential services, such as funeral parlours, may, therefore, actually have the effect of protecting, and enhancing the prospects of, other businesses.
I have no objection to funeral parlours and funeral directors operating in the high street.
The vexed issue of planning and funeral parlours is of great concern to my constituents.
She expected that the funeral parlour proprietor would then be able to put his case and that the matter would be adjudicated in the ordinary way.
In another instance, the mains water supplies of a funeral parlour was insufficiently protected against backflow contamination which could occur while chemicals were being used during the embalming process.
Some people who take an interest in health matters might well consider that the change of use from a tobacconist to a funeral parlour was a related use.
