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Property Team

These people look after the Diocesan property portfolio including clergy housing.

Alex Welburn

Alex Welburn

Head of Property & Diocesan Surveyor

alex.welburn@yorkdiocese.orgSend Email
01904 699521

Alex is a Chartered Surveyor and Builder. He is responsible for strategic planning and for overseeing the management of the housing portfolio and the Glebe estate.

David Knowles

David Knowles

Asset Surveyor, Housing

david.knowles@yorkdiocese.orgSend Email
01904 699520

David has day-to-day responsibility for all our programmes of work, particularly while clergy posts are in vacancy, and in support of the five-yearly (quinquennial) inspections and our overall asset management.

Lisa Whitley

Lisa Whitley

Clergy Housing Officer

lisa.whitley@yorkdiocese.orgSend Email
01904 699526

Lisa is the Clergy Housing Officer, and is pleased to help with enquiries about clergy housing, inspection, repairs and maintenance. This includes all Parsonages, PCC owned property currently used to house Stipendiary Clergy and diocesan owned Assistant Ministers' Houses.

Bevil Edwards

Bevil Edwards

Senior Glebe, Property and Trusts Officer

bevil.edwards@yorkdiocese.orgSend Email
01904 699536

Bevil is the Senior Glebe, Property and Trust Officer, and is able to advise PCCs about trustee matters, especially where the DBF acts as custodian trustees, charitable and building related trusts and title deeds.

Jess Galley

Jess Galley

Administrative Assistant

jess.galley@yorkdiocese.orgSend Email
01904 699519

Jess works mainly across both the Property team and the Pastoral and Church Buildings team, as well as more generally across the Diocesan Office.