@lunalulu
Crikey. Why is everyone being so mean? The guy didn't want to leave his home. Maybe it's uncool/unsavoury etc to you, but I think he deserves a bit of respect. Just feels like a load of hyenas laughing at him and mocking even the naivety etc of whoever is selling the house that they haven't presented a slickly-staged perfect home.
It feels superior and unkind. Sorry to point it out but ...
Ashes are totally different. It's not the dead person part, it's a body. Pretty much the same as having a major sewer 6ft wide Victorian thing running through your garden.
In both cases it's never going away and you can never build over it. Ashes might be forgotten 2 or 3 moves down the line. Dead body or Victorian sewer, it's always going to be there if you want to extend or plonk a workshop there. Even in 150 years the bones and coffin will be there. So in 75 years you want to RIP down the terrace to build flats. Hello Victorian sewer / dead body.
I'm saying that as someone who had someone die in my house which is build on old chaple land so highly probably a graveyard before it was developed.
But I can and have built up and extended as the land is 100% mine down to the earths core ( sort of). If I did find remains I could move them as they would be unmarked unknown and ok with council rebury properly. This isnt the case for the next owner here.
Can you not see why some people would be put off by such a restriction on the land. Forget the body aspect but from a monitory aspect?
I wouldn't because money talks so even if I was fine with the body I know it limits resell and propery is the biggest investment most people ever make.