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DAC Guidance Notes

 

Guidance Notes are available from the Diocesan Advisory Committee (DAC) on the subjects listed below.

Many of the Guidance Notes are available to download from the Peterborough Diocesan Registry website: www.peterboroughdiocesanregistry.co.uk/dac

For a paper copy contact the DAC office.

Subjects A - Z

A
Archaeology and archaelogy contractors
Architects
Architects appointing guidance
Architects and surveyors - DAC expectations
Asbestos and the PCC’s duty to manage it

B
Bells / substitues for conventional bells
Bells and bell frames

C
Cess pits and septic tanks
Checklist for PCCs before commissioning works
Churchyards - railings
Churchyards - wall repairs
Churchyards - paths
Churchyards - gates and handrails
Churchyards - seats
Churchyards - trees (Chancellor's guidance to PCCs)
Clocks
Cremation

D
De Minimus list
Disability and access
Disability Discrimination Act: access for people with disabilities
Disabled people's access to historic buildings
Drainage and French Drains

E
Electricity
Electrical inspections
Electrical works: information the specification should include
Electrical requirements for rewiring using existing conduit
Electrical work in churches: DAC approved schemes in parishes since 1995
Electrical works: declaration for contractors undertaking works
English Heritage: DAC referral policy
English Heritage referrals checklist
English Heritage referrals
Extensions and new buildings

F
Faculty
Faculty Jurisdiction Measure 1991; Rules 2000 Floodlighting
Floodlighting

H
Handrails
Health and safety
Health and safety audit
Health and safety in churches and churchyards
Heating church buildings
Heating methods available
Heights: The Work at Height Regulations 2005

L
Landfill sites
Lighting (internal)
Lime and mortar
Listed places of worship

M
Memorials, headstones and plaques
Memorials and headstones in churchyards
Memorials and plaques in church buildings

N
Notice boards

P
Permission to undertake repairs or new works in churches and churchyards
Permission procedure flowchart
Pew and pew platform removal
Pipe and cable runs
Projector and screen installation

R
Radio aerials and churches: update on national consultation with operators
Redecoration
Reordering - liturgical
Reordering
Removal of pews

S
Site visits
Sound systems
Sound systems - Faculties for sound enhancement / loop systems
Spire repairs
Standing fabric intrusion
Statements
Statements of need: making the most of your church building
Statements of Significance
Storage of parish records
Structural repairs

T
Telecommunications
Telecommunications masts and radio base stations
Timber assessment and treatment

V
VAT and the Listed Places of Worship Grant Scheme
VAT and the Memorials Grant Scheme

W
War Memorials in churches and churchyards
Water
WC and utilities
WC and utility facility installation
WC and kitchens in the diocese
Windows and stained glass windows
Windows: new stained glass in the diocese 1994-98
Windows: new stained glass windows
Window protection
Woodwork

To request the guidance note for a particular subject, contact the DAC office.

 

 

 
 
 
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