Chancel Repair Liability & the PCC

Chancel Repair Liabilities and responsibilities of the PCC. To comply with this advice a PCC must investigate the liability

Some PCCs will have amateur historians who may be prepared to undertake this task.

Other PCCs may want professional help. Capital and Country Searches have put together a package to produce basic information and, for those PCCs that require it, more detailed information.

The outcome of these searches will probably be a tithe map and/or an enclosure award and map. That map needs to be compared with a modern Ordinance Survey map and using that it may be possible to identify the current owners through the Land Registry if the current owner's land is registered. If the land is not registered, ascertaining the owner will be difficult and local enquiries will be necessary. Once the PCC knows the owners of all of the relevant land it can then consider whether to register the chancel repair liability against each one. If it does it makes an application in respect of each landowner to register the liability against that owner's property. Land Registry fees will be payable and legal fees if solicitors are used.

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