Handed down on 21 November 2022, Re St. Saviour Croydon [2022] ECC Swk 5, was the first case to be considered under the new provisions of the Faculty Jurisdiction (Amendment) Rules 2022, described here. After coming into force on 1 July 2022, there has now been a total of twenty four consistory court determinations under the new provisions. These have covered 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; a 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; links to these cases are  listed here.

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