The petitioner was 58 years old and on the electoral roll of the parish. His petition for the reservation of a grave space was opposed by the Parochial Church Council (PCC) and 12 local objectors on the basis of a long-standing PCC policy against reservations in this churchyard, which had only four and a half years of space remaining. When the chancellor reviewed evidence of the PCC policy he concluded that, despite a widely held belief (including by members of the PCC who were at the relevant meeting) that the policy existed, no policy against reservations had in fact been adopted by the PCC; instead a policy against allowing the burial of those not legally entitled had been adopted. The fact that a number of people had not reserved grave spaces as a result of the widespread belief in and purported application of such a policy was not enough. The faculty was granted. [RA]