Highgate Cemetery is in the midst of a conflict regarding a new maintenance block amidst recent burials. A meeting aimed at discussing adjustments to the structure turned chaotic with protests, walkouts, and legal threats from grave owners who feel their needs are overlooked for tourism. High-profile objectors, like actors Bertie Carvel and Pam Miles, expressed their dismay, urging the cemetery to reconsider the building's location on sacred ground. Many felt it was insensitive to place a large, brutalist structure in an area frequented by mourning families, especially considering the graves of prominent figures.
The meeting descended into heckles, chants, a walkout, legal threats, demands for compensation and accusations that the cemetery was putting tourists above mourners.
Among those objecting were the actor Bertie Carvel, whose mother was buried on the mound in 2019. He urged the cemetery to rethink the brutalist structure.
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