Tags: Chancel Repair Liability
NSS reiterates call for abolition of chancel repair liability
Posted: Thu, 24 May 2018
The NSS has urged the Law Commission to recommend the abolition of a measure which requires landowners to pay for local church repairs. Read More »
Bills on assisted dying, ‘chancel tax’, Easter trading and sharia tribunals set for Lords debates
Posted: Mon, 01 Jun 2015
Several bills related to secular causes have been successful in the House of Lords Private Members' Bill ballot, meaning new laws on sharia tribunals, assisted dying, chancel repair liability, and Easter trading will be debated. Read More »
Secularists call for an end to Chancel Repair Liability in Lords debate
Posted: Fri, 23 Jan 2015
Secularists made a strong case for abolishing Chancel Repair Liability (CRL) in a debate in the House of Lords, and described CRL as a "medieval anomaly." Read More »
BBC's Rip Off Britain takes on chancel repair liability
Posted: Thu, 18 Sep 2014
Rip Off Britain, the BBC consumer rights programme which investigates viewers' stories of being ripped-off, this week covered chancel repair liability – an ancient law which can make homeowners liable for the upkeep of their local Anglican church. Read More »
Legislation introduced to abolish chancel repair liability
Posted: Fri, 18 Jul 2014
A parliamentary bill has been introduced to abolish chancel repair liability – an ancient law that can force homeowners to pay for some ancient Anglican parish church repairs. Read More »
Another church backtracks over chancel repair liability
Posted: Mon, 28 Apr 2014
A church in East Yorkshire has become the latest to back down after facing opposition to its plans to use an ancient land law to make residents pay for church repairs. Read More »
Local campaign forces church U-turn over Chancel Repair Liability
Posted: Fri, 25 Apr 2014
A parochial church council that used an ancient law to make homeowners financially liable for repairs to their local church has withdrawn its claim. Read More »
Homeowners angered at prospect of having to pay for church repairs
Posted: Thu, 27 Feb 2014
An archaic law left over from the reign of Henry VIII has caused anger in a Shropshire village after a number of households found out they could be liable for paying for repairs at their local church. Read More »
NSS warns thousands of homes could become worthless as a result of an ancient church tax
Posted: Thu, 18 Oct 2012
The Government has announced that it has no intention of changing the law on chancel repair liability – leaving tens of thousands of home-owners with houses that are potentially unsaleable. Read More »
Rush to register land as Chancel Repairs Act is modified
Posted: Fri, 03 Aug 2012
Residents, most of them elderly, of the parish of St Eadburgha in Gloucestershire had a nasty shock recently, when a letter from the Land Registry dropped through the door telling them that, because of the land on which their house was built, they had a potential legal liability to pay tens of thousands of pounds in church repairs. Read More »
