£18m overhaul approved to rescue Highgate Cemetery from ‘romantic decay’

Highgate Cemetery’s plans for an £18 million refurbishment have been approved by Camden Council, allowing the 25-year revitalisation project to get started.
(c) Hopkins Architects
Arguably the most famous and ornate of London’s “magnificent seven” Victorian cemeteries, it has been stewarded since the 1950s under a ‘managed neglect/romantic decay’ approach.
The Cemetery says this has become unsustainable due to vegetation and self-seeded trees damaging gr