Warcop Cemetery Maintenance

Warcop Cemetery Maintenance

Warcop Cemetery Maintenance – Old Part

 

This document forms the workplan and subjective standard for the maintenance of the old part of Warcop Cemetery.  There are no timescales to this plan – work will be carried out as appropriate across the year.

 

  1. Only access-ways to be mown as Alan does at present; no mowing or strimming over or between graves/gravestones
  2. Only grasses to be allowed to grow out of grave areas – no brambles, shrubs or nettles.
  • All brambles anywhere to be removed and treated to prevent regrowth
  1. Nettles to be permitted only adjacent to the boundary wall
  2. Existing shrubs to be reviewed and a view taken whether to keep/remove (largely based on aesthetic value and ease of maintenance, on a case-by-case basis)
  3. Trees to be checked for loose and dead branches and these removed.
  • Woody plants and shrubs next to the boundary wall to be removed and treated to prevent future wall problems from roots etc.
  • Separately, the fate of the big trees which are already compromising the east dry stone wall to be discussed

 

 

 

Approved by the Parish Council on 12/9/2024.