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Guidance for Potential Purchasers and Lessees

 

Below is a list of the contents for the guidance note for potential purchasers and lessees of redundant church buildings. You can also download the guidance note as a Word document and a flowchart of the redundancy process from a buyer's perspective using the following links:

  • download Guidance Note (Word)
  • download Buyer's Perspective Flowchart (Word)
Guidance Note Contents:
  1. What is a Redundant Church?/Examples of Use
  2. Finding a Redundant Church/Making an Offer
  3. The Role of the Church Commissioners
  4. Planning Considerations/Structural Alterations
  5. Plans and Drawings
  6. Where there are Human Remains
  7. Rights of Next of Kin and Personal Representatives/What Happens to the Contents of a Redundant Church?
  8. Covenants/Changing Circumstances
  9. A Summary of Other Organisations Involved