Following the General Synod decision in February 2020, new provisions on carbon reduction were introduced under the Faculty Jurisdiction (Amendment) Rules 2022 (“the new provisions”) came into force 1 July 2022. This is the revised sixth in the series of posts[1] which update the list of determinations under the revised provisions, here. Judgments before the new provisions were introduced are here.
There has been a total of twenty four consistory court determinations under the new provisions. Approval was granted for a range of heating sources: four examples of heat pump installation; five using some form of electrical heating; ten where the primary source was gas; further four with other modes of heating and one where solar panels provided supplementary power. In a further case, a retrospective faculty for replacement gas boilers was refused although but limited continuation was permitted.