Prices for a range of vital Isle of Wight services have risen — including cremations; burials; marriages and civil ceremonies.
The fee increases have been implemented after they were approved by the Isle of Wight Council in its budget earlier this year.
The authority is expected to make £300,000 from the increase in fees and charges for the bereavement services and £15,000 from the regulatory services, based on a 10% increase. In the regulatory services, however, the average price increase is roughly 28%, so the council could make more.
Those looking to get married or have a civil partnership ceremony at a licensed venue will now have to pay between £520 and £625, depending on the day, compared to prices last year from £440 to £530. If you were to get married in St Catherine’s Room at the council’s Register Office in Newport, you will now need to pay £55 more — jumping from £95 to £150.
To renew vows or hold a naming ceremony at the Register Office will now cost £145 (up from £100) or £220 at an approved premises (up from £175).
It is the third year in a row that cremation prices have risen, with the cost of a direct cremation — with no service or guests — having risen from £450 in 2021 to £650 in 2023 — a 44% increase. Since 2016, the price of an adult cremation has increased 81% — from £644 to £1,169.
A single service fee — which includes cremation, the use of the organ and an organist — has increased 20% on last year, jumping from £1,065 to £1,277.
The controversial fee to charge families to livestream a service, which was introduced last year, has also increased from £55 to £66. A new £12 cancellation fee for the livestream has been since been added.
While burial fees were frozen last year, most charges this year are being hiked up 20%. An adult burial will now cost £1,537 (up from £1,281), with the cost of a grave rising from £898 to £1,078.
Memorials will also cost more — with a granite memorial in the Baby Garden rising from £519 to £623.
For full lists of fees and charges, visit the council’s website.
Well our council and government can certainly be relied upon to keep their promises!!!!!
From the cradle to the grave !!!!!
Yes they can rip us off from the minute we are born to the time we shuffle off this mortal earth…..
And in between waste our hard earned money….
Congratulations on keeping your promises!!!!!!
Cannot afford to live and now cannot afford to die either.
Absolute robdogs.made enough on the festival…but fleece us that bit more.discraceful
What’s the justification for the scale of these increases? It certainly isn’t wage inflation cos they still pay peanuts. At this rate people will be doing their own DIY funerals.
Council can increase ctax by 5% maximum but inflation is above 5% so they need to make for the short-fall elsewhere. As marriage or death is a service with much smaller frequency, they cannot increase it just by 3-5% to cover it but rather xx% and I bet it still won’t be enough by itself: that’s why you get parking charges going up.
It’s up in the hands of the Tory government to fight inflation. Going well for them, eh.
Screwed more for all our vital needs again, plus screwed more for parking, council tax, rates, and more cuts to the already crap services making an absolute mint to squander on pointless and dangerous road changes and piece of crap floating bridge, as well as blowing thousands on their own gains.
Isle of Wight Council tax one of the most expensive in UK.
Green/Garden waste charges much dearer than many other parts of the country
24/7 365 Days a year parking charges on the Island
(Even London Mayor Khan ain’t that Greedy)
You have to pay 20p or 40p to have a P*SS
You have to pay £2 to use the lift at Shanklin
‘THIS COUNCIL IS A COMPLETE JOKE’
ROBIN BUSTARDS
> Isle of Wight Council tax one of the most expensive in UK.
I’m not that surprised. We have much older population than London. It puts more strain on public services. The less people of productive age you have, the worse tax gets.
Targeting younger workers with developments attractive to them can help to lure them but:
– Gen Z drinks less so just another pub won’t do,
– Gen Z drives less but here many see cycling as a work of devil
– Gen Z are used to walkable city centres like London or Amsterdam but here we want more parking spaces
etc.
Good luck with increasing our population distribution. Things above are a very hard sell on IOW
Boomer land pays extra “boomer tax” on lack of productivity. Simple.
-signed, Gen Z
Why not roll out permit parking Islandwide and decrease Council Tax.
This would be much fairer for everyone.
That would stop vehicles with No Mot’s filling up our Roads.
Everyone at IW Council should take a pay cut, therefore they would not have to
Sting people.
Is this their way of clawing back all the money they waste on various works that overrun
like the rubbish Ryde Interchange!
Due to Poor Management in the Council and Island Roads
we islanders have to keep bailing them out.
What’s the betting they will increase our Council Tax again next year.
> What’s the betting they will increase our Council Tax again next year.
Yeah, that’s called inflation, and AFAIR council can do a 5% increase max anyway? Which is way below inflation? So no surprise they need to look for money elsewhere.
Look to our great government for combating inflation.
I will never vote again.
All of them are only bothered about themselves, they don’t care about people.
They are all lining their own pockets