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Condition and Recommendation Report Monuments at Risk West Norwood Memorial Park
Sally Strachey
The environment in which the monuments at West Norwood Cemetery are set is both beautiful and challenging. The clay on which the cemetery is built, the sloping profile, the extensive collection of mature trees and the abundance of bramble and ivy combine to present a series of interlinked decay mechanisms which are having an ongoing impact on the structural stability of the monuments. A long term approach to the management of the landscape and substructure will need to be developed in order to justify expenditure on stabilising and conserving the monuments as well as creating a feasible and realistic ten year maintenance plan. A risk against benefit approach should be adopted for every intervention; for example it may be necessary to reduce the number of trees and remove them where they are causing rapid deterioration to the larger monuments. However, where trees have been removed from clay soils the moisture abstracted by the trees will find its way back into the soil resulting in the soil swelling and causing further disruption. An initial general investigation followed by a more local investigation could draw in the following points: soil type shrinkage potential of the clay soil potential water demand of the trees potential mature height of the trees distance of trees from the existing foundations and voids
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