The Lichfield Diocesan Advisory Committee (DAC) will meet 6 times in 2024, by online conferencing or in person at St Mary's House in Lichfield, to consider faculty applications for both informal (pre-application) advice and formal (statutory) advice.
The full explanatory minutes of DAC meetings, following approval by the DAC at each subsequent meeting, are published on this web page (from 2021 onwards).
The DAC notes that the Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport (DCMS) guidance on The operation of the Ecclesiastical Exemption and related planning matters for places of worship in England (2010) indicates (paragraph 10) that 'Denominational systems of control need to be open and transparent'.
Faculty applications, including supporting documents, submitted under the Faculty Jurisdiction (Amendment) Rules 2019 (from April 2020) and most recently the Faculty Jurisdiction (Amendment) Rules 2023 (from January 2024) via the Online Faculty System are now also in the public domain, through the public notices section within that online portal.
The following minutes files, relating to DAC meetings, are available to be consulted:
2024
- 21 February 2024
- 10 April 2024 [to be approved at 5 June 2024 DAC meeting]
- 5 June 2024
- 24 July 2024
- 2 October 2024
- 4 December 2024
2023
2022
2021
- 10 February 2021
- 24 March 2021
- 5 May 2021
- 16 June 2021
- 21 July 2021
- 15 September 2021
- 27 October 2021
- 8 December 2021
Please note: Any sensitive information (i.e. personal data) in these statutory minutes has been redacted, in relation to the Data Protection Act 2018 (UK GDPR).