Approval from the Diocese has now been given for the work on the roof to go ahead (although there are still several red tape issues to tackle) and all being well work should be starting at the beginning of April. Although permission will, hopefully, be granted formally by the autumn it will be too late in the year to start work and we have to consider issues such as weather, sourcing the correct materials, roofers schedules and bat habitats! Therefore, April 2016 is the chosen date – watch this space…..

After successfully achieving an award from the Listed Places of Worship for a new roof for our church we now had to apply to the Diocese of Exeter for a faculty (permission) to replace the existing one! After filling in all the forms and carrying out an emergence survey of any bats that may be in residence (none that we could see) and consulting with our architect it seems we still have a little way to go to dot all the i’s and cross the t’s to satisfy all the strict requirements. Then there’s the problem of finding the appropriate amount of reclaimed Delabole slates as they are in much…