Customer Services Centres will be closed in Stawell from 11am and St Arnaud Town from 12pm, reopening as per normal hours on Friday 26 July 2024. In the event of an emergency, please ring 03 5358 8700 for assistance.
Our building and planning teams have implemented a new and simple permit application process called Greenlight. The Greenlight Online Permit Manager will allow you to submit and pay for your applications online, receive correspondence by email and monitor the status of your applications from start to finish. To access, please visit our planning or building permit pages or click on the link:
Northern Grampians Shire Greenlight Planning and Building Permits
Northern Grampians Shire Council is the appointed trust for two cemeteries within the Northern Grampians Shire boundary, the Pleasant Creek (Stawell) Cemetery and the St Arnaud Cemetery.
Both cemeteries provide burials in either lawn and monumental sections or the interment of ashes in grave, a niche wall or memorial rose garden.
The Pleasant Creek (Stawell) Cemetery is located on Cypress Street, Stawell.
Fees and location map
Plesant Creek (Stawell) Cemetery Sections Map.pdf(PDF, 500KB)
The St Arnaud Cemetery is located on Cemetery Road, St Arnaud.
St Arnaud Cemetery Sections Map.pdf(PDF, 20KB)
Deep Lead
Concongella
Great Western
Navarre
Glenorchy
Stuart Mill
Swanwater West
Burrum Burrum (Banyena)
Gray's Bridge (Marnoo)
Ashens
Please visit the Victorian Government Department of Health cemetery search website to search for the cemetery trust name, contact information, fees and location of these cemeteries.
Northern Grampians Shire Council offer plaque services for the St Arnaud Cemetery, please contact us to make arrangements.
Please contact a monument supplier (stonemason) to manage plaque orders for the Pleasant Creek (Stawell) Cemetery.
An 'Application to Establish or Alter a Memorial or Place of Interment' form must be provided with payment of fee before carrying out any works within the cemetery grounds.
Northern Grampians Shire Council holds considerable, but not complete, records for the Pleasant Creek (Stawell) and St Arnaud cemeteries. Please contact us for historical or research purposes or alternatively contact the Registrar of Births, Deaths and Marriages or a local historical society.
Note: only prescribed information as per the Cemeteries Regulations will be made available to the public. Access to non-prescribed cemetery trust information requires a Freedom of Information request.