What are requirements for cemeteries and crematoriums regarding construction planning in Vietnam?
What are requirements for cemeteries and crematoriums regarding construction planning in Vietnam? Which document stipulates this issue?
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Pursuant to Section 2.13.2 of the National Technical Regulation QCVN 01:2021/BXD - National Technical Regulation on “Construction planning” issued together with the Circular 01/2021/TT-BXD stipulating requirements for cemeteries and crematoriums regarding construction planning in Vietnam:
- Land demand for cemeteries (excluding martyr cemeteries) and scale of crematoriums shall be predicted based on mortality rate and methods of final disposition. Scale and area of concentrated cemeteries must ensure a minimum of 0.04 ha/1 000 inhabitants;
- Planning for location of new cemeteries and crematoriums must not negatively affect operation of other functional areas and traffic activities; Planning for cemeteries must take into account local final disposition customs and traditions as long as environmental, effective, and economical land use requirements are guaranteed;
- Planning for cemeteries must be able to identify current cemeteries that need to be resettled, closed or upgraded as well as the land fund for resettlement. Currently available cemeteries and crematoriums that fail to regulations above must conduct environmental impact assessment to adopt additional environmental hygiene measures as per the law when complying with regulations on environment separation distance;
- Environment separation distance of new cemeteries and crematoriums must conform to Schedule 2.25 and regulations on protected areas for water collection location and water supply structures under 2.10.1 simultaneously;
- In special cases, if a crematorium is situated at the beginning of the prevailing wind of the urban area or a cemetery is situated in headwaters, environment separation distance of structures within crematoriums and cemeteries must be multiplied by at least 1.5;
- Install trees around new cemeteries and crematoriums with a minimum width of 10 m;
- Within environment separation distance of structures affiliated to cemeteries and crematoriums may implement agricultural and forestry activities, plan for traffic and irrigation structures, power, fuel, gas supply and transmission structures, water drainage systems, wastewater treatment systems and other structures affiliated to the cemeteries and crematoriums, do not situate other civil structures;
- In addition, cemeteries and crematoriums must conform to QCVN 07-10:2016/BXD.
Schedule 2.25: Environment separation distance of cemeteries
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Location to be isolated |
Minimum distance from location to be isolated |
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Graveyard for primary burials |
Graveyards for single burials |
Graveyard for secondary burials |
Buildings and structures containing incinerators and corpses prior to incineration |
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Residential structures in urban areas and concentrated rural residence areas |
1 000 m |
500 m |
100 m |
500 m |
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Water collection location serving daily activities of urban areas and concentrated rural residence areas |
1 500 m |
1 000 m |
- |
- |
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Railway, national highway, provincial highway |
200 m |
200 m |
200 m |
- |
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Rivers and lakes (including those not for daily activities) |
300 m |
300 m |
100 m |
- |
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NOTE 1: Burial grounds must install water collection systems to collect water seeping through graveyards and overflown rainwater for treatment and to prevent them from directly seep into groundwater or flow to water surface outside of cemeteries. NOTE 2: Incineration technology must satisfy environment requirements under QCVN 02:2012/BTNMT. |
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