Highgate cemetery families confront bosses in row over new building

Heckles, chants and legal threats at meeting as people condemn plan for ‘brutalist’ block where loved ones are buried

Dozens of grave owners confronted Highgate cemetery’s bosses and their architects this week in a growing row over a maintenance and toilet block in a part of the graveyard where almost 200 people were recently buried.

The cemetery called Tuesday’s private meeting in an attempt to placate objectors by setting out adjustments to a new building that is part of an £18m redevelopment of the graveyard.

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