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Search the Public Notice Portal A new service helping people mourn and commemorate their pets who have passed away could be coming to Teesside.
A proposal submitted to Redcar & Cleveland Borough Council lays out plans to convert an empty commercial workshop at the rear of High Street in Skelton into a pet crematorium.
The application has been submitted by The Pet Loss Foundation, which says the site would provide increased pet cremation services for residents.
The workshop would be renovated to accommodate a pet incinerator, alongside other spaces and facilities involved in the pet cremation process.
The Pet Loss Foundation say the facility would "sensitively cremate local loved pets".
It would also offer free cremations for owners who receive pension credit.
Pet owners in Teesside could have access to improved cremation services in new plans submitted to the council.
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Details submitted with the application include the cremation equipment with a secondary combustion chamber which would process up to 47kg per hour.
Exhaust gases would be heated to 850C and held for a minimum of two seconds, a process which the applicant says "completely destroys smoke, dioxins, furans and odours".
This would help respect locals and neighbours in the area who may have concerns about smoke and fumes from the incinerator.
The application also states that the equipment would be CE certified and compliant with animal by-products regulations.
The foundation sought advice from the council's environmental health team before submitting the proposal to ensure all processes were in line with their guidance also.
An environmental health officer reportedly advised that there should be "no issue" with this type of pet incinerator proposed for the Skelton site, and the organisation would support the application.
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Neighbours in Skelton have voiced their support for the application with Redcar Council.
Many say a service closer to home would make the process of losing a pet much easier.
Philip Shea said: "I think bringing this to our local community will be positive.
"Providing an empathetic service for all of us who are animal lovers will allow us to have something on the doorstep so we can say goodbye more easily, rather than travelling elsewhere."
Abbie Broomfield added: "Losing a pet is so hard - they are part of the family so being able to meet the person who would take care of them would help ease some of the anxiety, rather than having to leave them at the vets."
Redcar & Cleveland Borough Council will start consultations on the planning application in due course.