HERE<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\u201cThe chimney stacks are being dislodged brick-by-brick during high winds.<\/p>\n
\u201cThere is one crack on the south elevation and a much larger one on the east-facing gable.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe are concerned that when the building falls, visitors could get hurt and monuments will be damaged.<\/p>\n
\u201cGiven the location of the building, this could also mean access is restricted to our woodland burial and therefore prevent natural burials from taking place.<\/p>\n
\u201cIf left unmanaged, the buildings, walls and monuments would ultimately collapse, secondary woodland would colonise all remaining open space, and all graves would become lost in a dense thicket of woodland scrub.<\/p>\n
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Top Lodge at Arnos Vale Cemetery(Image: Arnos Vale Cemetery Trust)<\/p>\n
\u201cEventually, by the process of natural succession, a mature woodland would become established over a desecrated cemetery.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis scenario does not even have the benefit of improving the wildlife interest of the site; a managed cemetery can be designed to provide a far wider range of habitats.\u201d<\/p>\n
The trust said it was about to run public workshops to ask for ideas about what should replace the boarded-up building, and that proposals designed in 2021 were to build a small community centre.<\/p>\n
It said: \u201cAlthough we have two large chapels, they are expensive to heat and staff, pricing out smaller local groups.<\/p>\n
\u201cHaving a smaller, easier to manage space could prove popular and we want to investigate this with our local community.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It is at risk of collapse at one of the city’s best-loved green spaces Top Lodge at Arnos…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":873407,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8818],"tags":[9420,381,3893,748,393,4884,12717,285,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-873406","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-bristol","8":"tag-brislington","9":"tag-bristol","10":"tag-bristol-city-council","11":"tag-britain","12":"tag-england","13":"tag-great-britain","14":"tag-planning","15":"tag-politics","16":"tag-uk","17":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/116351377353723534","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/873406","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=873406"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/873406\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/873407"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=873406"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=873406"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=873406"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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