Following the Highgate Cemetery Act 2022, the Friends of Highgate Cemetery Trust is able to extinguish rights of burial and to disturb human remains in Highgate Cemetery for the purpose of increasing the space for interments and for the conservation of the Cemetery. The Trust may also use appropriately or remove altogether from the Cemetery memorials on such graves. Clearly Parliament recognised that change was necessary to ensure the sustainable future of the Cemetery, but in England the re-use of graves is not yet widely practised, and the removal of memorials is even rarer. How can a conservation charity decide which memorials should stay and which should go? Raising the funds to repair and conserve significant memorials will inevitably mean the loss of others. National policy is that heritage assets should be conserved, and where appropriate, enhanced, in a manner that is consistent with their significance and thereby achieving sustainable development. Memorials might be significant for their archaeological, architectural, artistic or historic interest. While memorials of exceptional significance are protected by designation, the fate of most others will rest on management decisions made by the Trust itself. Who should decide, and how?