Chancel repair indemnity policy

[Toomuchtooyoung01]

Our buyers solicitors have just asked if we would be willing to pay for this. Apparently it’s in case something happens to the church about a mile and a half away and the buyer was asked to contribute towards repairs? Can we say no to this?!

We had this about 5 years ago and I seem to remember it only cost £15.

We did this 10 years ago and paid £50. Never crossed our minds to ask the vendor to pay it. And we were told at the time that the law was about to change so it wouldn't be a requirement in future as parishes would no longer be able to call the money in.

Ended up paying more than the insurance to the church in question in the end when they did need thousands to do serious underpinning works but that was by choice!