Ecclesiastical Exemption Consultation Paper
This consultation has now ended. The consultation period was 25 February to 31 May 2004. The report Ecclesiastical Exemption: The Way Forward - Proposals and Analysis of the responses to the consultation was published on 28 July 2005.
The Department for Culture, Media and Sport has published proposals for changing the way in which the ecclesiastical exemption from listed building and conservation area controls operates in England.
The exemption presently applies to six denominations in England and Wales under The Ecclesiastical Exemption (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Order 1994. These denominations include the Church of England and the Roman Catholic Church. The consultation paper proposes that the exemption should continue to operate in England under high-level management agreements entered into by individual denominations. The management agreements would be made with English Heritage, who would be given the statutory power both to validate denominations' systems of control and to monitor their operation of the exemption. The management agreements would be reviewed after five years. The Welsh Assembly Government will be making separate arrangements for reviewing the exemption in Wales.
The Future of the Ecclesiastical Exemption - A Consultation Paper For England PDF (363kb)
Please note comments may be made publicly available unless you ask us not to do so.
This consultation has now ended. The consultation period was 25 February to 31 May 2004.
If you have any questions or complaints about the process of consultation on this paper, please contact Liz Sweet, Consultation Co-ordinator, Strategy, Policy and Delivery Division, Department for Culture, Media and Sport, 2-4 Cockspur Street, London SW1Y 5DH, liz.sweet@culture.gsi.gov.uk
These documents are available online in Adobe Acrobat (.pdf) format.
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