Subject: FOI request - Case Ref/ 00211027 From: FOI Unit Direction: received Date: Mon, 14 Sep 2026 15:07 UTC Institution: Vale of Glamorgan Council Refs: 00211027 Archive id: gm-1a0a07619dc77c41 ------------------------------------------------------------ Dear Mr Buckler Thank you for your request for information about Llandough Primary School and your further enquires around whom you within the Information Governance team you have been corresponding with. You asked Under the Freedom of Information Act 2000 and, where applicable, the Environmental Information Regulations 2004, I request copies of records relating to the acquisition of the land used for the construction of Llandough Primary School. Specifically, I request: ■ The transfer deed, conveyance or other legal instrument by which the Council acquired the land. ■ The purchase price or consideration paid for the land. ■ If the land was gifted, transferred at nominal value or below market value, records explaining the basis for that arrangement. ■ Any valuation reports obtained before acquisition. ■ Any agreements, correspondence or meeting minutes between the Council and BP (or any BP subsidiary, trust or associated company) concerning the transfer of the land. ■ Any Cabinet, Committee or Council reports authorising the acquisition. ■ Any planning agreements or obligations connected with the transfer. If any of the requested information is already publicly available, please provide the relevant links or document references. You then issued further correspondence requesting: On 14 July 2026 you acknowledged my FOI/EIR request (Case Ref 00211027) concerning the acquisition of land for Llandough Primary School. I replied the same day asking for the name of the officer who sent the acknowledgement. I have received no further response or substantive reply. Our Response The transfer deed, conveyance or other legal instrument by which the Council acquired the land The Council holds a conveyance dated 11 June 1965 made between: 1. Lakeside and Llandough Development Company Limited; 2. Western Ground Rents Limited; and 3. The Glamorgan County Council. A scanned copy of the conveyance and its plan is attached (“the 1965 Conveyance”). The purchase price or consideration paid for the land The consideration recorded in the 1965 Conveyance is £16,800. If the land was gifted, transferred at nominal value or below market value, records explaining the basis of that arrangement The 1965 Conveyance records a purchase for £16,800. No record has been located within the papers held by Legal Services indicating that the land was gifted or transferred at nominal value or below market value. Any valuation reports obtained before acquisition Searches were undertaken with Legal Services and Estates Department. No valuation report relating to the acquisition has been identified. The Council does not hold any valuation report falling within the scope of this request. Any agreements, correspondence or meeting minutes between the Council and BP, or any BP subsidiary, trust or associated company, concerning the transfer No agreements, correspondence or meeting minutes between the Council and BP or any BP subsidiary, trust or associated company relating to the acquisition of the land have been identified. Any Cabinet, Committee or Council reports authorising the acquisition The Council has not identified any Cabinet, Committee or Council reports within its current records management systems which fall within the scope of your request. Given the age of the acquisition, any surviving historic records may have been transferred to Glamorgan Archives. You may wish to contact Glamorgan Archives directly regarding records from this period. Any planning agreements or obligations connected with the transfer No planning agreement or planning obligation connected with the 1965 Conveyance has been identified within the title deeds held by Legal Services or, within the Planning Departments records. We have considered this aspect of your correspondence under the Freedom of Information Act 2000. The Council’s Information Governance Team deal with requests on a collective basis and all requests will be considered by different officers. The requests are dealt with via a generic e-mail account so that all officers in the Team can consider correspondence. There are several reasons why the Information Governance Team work in this way. One reason is to ensure that correspondence is considered as soon as possible and to ensure that messages or e-mails are not sent to individuals and overlooked within our systems overall. The information requested is also considered to constitute the personal data of a member of staff and disclosure would amount to disclosure to the world at large. Therefore the Council is unable to provide the name of the individual officer, because it is not considered that there is a lawful basis that would make disclosure fair or necessary in the circumstances. The Council's correspondence is issued on behalf of the authority, and requests for information under the Freedom of Information Act 2000 or the Environmental Information Regulations 2004 are made to the Council as a public authority rather than to individual officers. It is not necessary to know the identity of a particular officer in order to submit a valid request for information. If you are dissatisfied with the handling of your request, you have the right to ask for an internal review. Internal review requests should be made within 40 working days of the date of receipt of the response to your original letter and should be addressed to: c/o The Monitoring Officer – [email redacted] Or by post to The Monitoring Officer, Civic Offices, Holton Road, Barry, [postcode redacted]. Please remember to quote the reference number above in any future communications. If you are not content with the outcome of the internal review, you have the right to apply directly to the Information Commissioner for a decision. 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