The Faculty Jurisdiction Rules 2015

Documents etc. to accompany petition

5.5.—(1) Where proceedings are started pursuant to a resolution of the parochial church council the standard information in Form 1A must be submitted with the petition.

(2) Where the proceedings are started by the relevant person or body (in the case of a building included in the list maintained by the Church Buildings Council under section 1(1) of the Care of Places of Worship Measure 1999) the standard information in Form 1B must be submitted with the petition.

(3) The following must also be submitted with every petition—

(a) the Diocesan Advisory Committee’s notification of advice (except in a case to which rule 4.1(2) or 5.2(4) applies);

(b) any relevant designs;

(c) any relevant plans;

(d) any relevant photographs;

(e) any advice or other material relating to the environmental implications of the works or other proposals;

(f) any other documents giving particulars of the works or other proposals; and

(g) copies of any relevant correspondence received from a body mentioned in rule 4.5(6).

(4) Where a petition seeks a faculty to authorise the demolition or partial demolition of a church under section 17(2) or (3)(a) of the Measure(1), the written consent of the bishop of the diocese to the proceedings being brought must also be submitted with the petition.

(1)

Section 17 of the Care of Churches and Ecclesiastical Jurisdiction Measure 1991 (1991 No. 1) was substituted by section 13(2) of the Church of England (Miscellaneous Provisions) Measure 2014 (2014 No. 1).