Angry response to parish reorganisation gives Commissioners pause
by Madeleine Davies, Church Times:
A WAVE of anxious, often angry, responses to the consultation on revision to the Mission and Pastoral Measure (…) has prompted the Church Commissioners to push back the timetable for producing legislation.
A white paper will now be brought to the General Synod in July, with draft legislation in February 2023, if members approve a programme of work.
Analysis of responses to the consultation, which ran from July to October last year, published with General Synod papers on Friday, describes the strength of feeling provoked by the paper, which set out possible changes to the Measure governing parish reorganisation and the disposal of churches no longer deemed viable as Anglican places of worship.
Among the possibilities suggested in the consultation was giving dioceses responsibility for managing the process, including the consideration of representations that currently come to the Church Commissioners. It also suggested streamlining the current consultation process, including potentially limiting those allowed to make representations. It has been branded a “Church Closers’ Charter” by some campaigners (Comment, 1 October 2021).
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