The Church of England is introducing a new Building Management Portal (BMP), a national digital system for managing applications relating to works on churches, their contents, and churchyards.
The portal will replace the Online Faculty System. It will be used for List A, List B, and faculty applications, and will provide a clearer and more structured way for applicants, parishes, DAC teams, archdeacons, registrars, chancellors, and consultees to work through the application process.
The Online Faculty System (OFS) is now read-only to allow time for a final export of data to the new portal before it goes live.. The Building Management Portal (BMP) is set to go live on 6 October - an email confirming this will be sent out when the BMP is ready for applicants to register.
The legal process itself is not changing. The Building Management Portal provides a new digital route for managing the same permission framework, with clearer workflow stages, improved case visibility, and role-based access.
Existing and historic cases from the Online Faculty System will be migrated into the Building Management Portal. As part of onboarding, dioceses will be asked to review imported information and test representative cases so that any data or access issues can be identified before the final transition.
Training material, FAQs, and guidance is being made available. Current video guidance is available, and further updates may follow once feedback from parish users has been reviewed.
To help Parishes adjust to the change to the BMP, the Church Buildings Team will be offering a one-hour online training workshop for applicants so that you can see how the process will work. These are:
13 October @ 2 pm
14 October @ 7.30 pm
21 October @ 2 pm
12 November @ 7.30 pm
25 November @ 2 pm
26 November @ 7.30 pm
To book a place, please email ChurchBuildings@LeicesterCofE.org
The training will make use of some of the videos that the National Church have produced.
- General Building Management Portal introduction
- Registration and account management
- List A works
- List B works
If you have questions about a current or future application, please contact Rupert Allen, DAC Secretary. Further national information is available on the Church of England website: churchofengland.org/BuildingManagementPortal