Kaner Olette Architects’ proposals for upgrade work at north London’s Abney Park Cemetery are set to go ahead after the project secured £4.4m in funding from the National Lottery.

The practice won planning permission for its scheme for the grade II-listed gothic graveyard in Stoke Newington – one of the capital’s so-called “Magnificent Seven” cemeteries – in November last year.

But Hackney council announced last week that work could commence after the funding nod was received from the National Lottery Heritage and Community Funds.

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