NOTICE
Mission and Pastoral Measure 2011
Draft Pastoral Scheme
17 April 2024
The Chester Diocesan Mission and Pastoral Committee has prepared a draft Pastoral Scheme
for:
• the creation of a new benefice of Dunham Massey Saint Margaret;
• the creation of a new benefice of Dunham Massey, Rostherne with Bollington, Over
Tabley;
• the parsonage arrangements for the new benefices; and
• the future patronage arrangements for the new benefices
all within the diocese of Chester.
A copy of the draft Scheme may be inspected at:
St Margaret, Dunham Road (A56), Altrincham WA14 4AQ
St Mark, Back Lane/ School Lane (off B5160), Dunham Town, WA14 4SG
St Mary, Rostherne Lane, Rostherne WA16 6RT
Holy Trinity, Lymm Road, Little Bollington, WA14 4SZ
St Paul, Chester Road, Tabley, WA16 0PP
You may also access the draft Scheme on the Commissioners’ website at www.ccpastoral.org
or obtain or inspect a copy during normal office hours by applying to Ruth Laemmel
([email protected]). Large print and/or audio copies are available on
request.
• Anyone may make representations to the Church Commissioners for or against all or any
part or parts of the draft Scheme (please include the reasons for your views) in writing or
by email to reach them no later than Wednesday 22 May 2024. Please send your
representation marked for the attention of Joanna Chandler-Clarke, Pastoral
Division, Church Commissioners, Church House, Great Smith Street, LONDON
SW1P 3AZ (e-mail: [email protected]). If they have
not acknowledged receipt of your representation before this date, please ring
020 7898 1732 or e-mail them to ensure it has been received. For administrative purposes,
a petition will be classed as a single representation and the Commissioners will only
correspond with the sender of the petition, if known, or otherwise the first signatory – “the
primary petitioner”.
• When making a representation, please also indicate the nature of your interest in the
proposals (e.g. parishioner, member of parochial church council, etc) and whether you
would like an opportunity to speak to the Committee regarding your representation if the
Commissioners decide a hearing should be held regarding the case.
• If the Commissioners receive representations against the draft Scheme, they will send
them, and any representations supporting the draft Scheme, to the Bishop whose views
will be sought. Individual representors and the primary petitioner will then receive copies
of the correspondence with the Bishop (including copies of all the representations) and
will be told whether a hearing is to be held. They and individual petitioners may comment
further to the Commissioners. Copies of all of the representations received and associated
correspondence will be published on the Commissioners’ website if the matter needs to
be considered by the Commissioners.
• If a hearing is held, anyone may attend the meeting of the Mission and Pastoral
Committee that considers the case and representors may have an opportunity to speak to
the Committee. Otherwise, the case will be considered in private.
• When the Commissioners acknowledge representations they will let individual
representors (and the primary petitioner) know the next few dates of the Committee’s
meetings. They will confirm the actual date if a hearing is to be held nearer the time.
• The Commissioners’ Mission and Pastoral Committee will decide if the draft Scheme
should proceed when it considers all the representations on the basis of a paper prepared
by the Commissioners’ staff and any points raised at the meeting.
• The Commissioners will notify all representors of their decision and give a statement of
the reasons for it.
• If they so decide the Scheme should proceed, any representor or petitioner against the
draft Scheme may seek leave from the Privy Council to appeal against the decision.
• Please see www.ccpastoral.org for further information about the procedure.
George Colville
Secretary
Chester Diocesan Mission and Pastoral Committee