Plans by Aedas for a new £2.6 million crematorium in West Yorkshire have been given approval by the local authority.

The complex, for Kirklees Metropolitan Council, will replace Dewsbury Moor Crematorium. It has been designed to sit on a steeply sloping landscape with panoramic views to the west across the Lower Spen Valley.

It has been conceived as an object in the landscape with an orthogonal sandstone and granite plinth set into the slope.

The roof tapers to a 7m-long cantilever above the reception space and remembrance chapel.

Visitor parking is cut into the landscape with tiered gardens also part of the overall design.

Work is due to start on site this August with completion due in July 2011.

Aedas project associate, Nigel Howden, said: “It has been great to work with a client with the confidence and vision to commission a contemporary approach to this very challenging building typology.”