Subject: Re: Great House Farm (Tŷ Mawr), Llandough — request for information under FOIA 2000 / EIR 2004
From: Mo Misra
Direction: received
Date: Mon, 28 Sep 2026 08:31 UTC
Institution: Llandough Community Council
Refs: none
Archive id: gm-1a0e723a463e74e1
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Dear Mr Buckler,

Your email of the 21st September has been passed over to our clerk (in 
copy) for consideration.

Best regards

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Dr Mo Misra, Chair Llandough Community Council

On 2026-09-21 03:59, Sion Buckler wrote:

> Dr Misra,
> 
> Thank you for replying, and for doing so promptly and at a weekend. 
> Good drills Sir. What an honour. I know you and the Council serve as 
> volunteers, and I am grateful for the time.
> 
> Let me set out plainly what I am asking of the Council, which is 
> narrow. If you'll allow me?
> 
> I am not asking your Council to revisit Mr Egan's answer of 14 June 
> 2026. He explained that the minute books from 1982 onwards were 
> deposited with Glamorgan Archives in 2002, and I am pursuing those 
> there.
> 
> What I am asking about is what that answer did not cover. Llandough 
> Community Council is a public authority under Schedule 1, Part II, 
> paragraph 7(b) of the Freedom of Information Act 2000. The Act applies 
> to the recorded information set out below generally; the Environmental 
> Information Regulations 2004 apply in addition to any part of it that 
> is environmental information.
> 
> PART ONE -- REQUEST FOR RECORDED INFORMATION
> 
> 1. Whether the Council holds any recorded information created after the 
> 2002 deposit -- minutes, correspondence, reports, emails, photographs 
> or files of any kind -- concerning Great House Farm (Ty Mawr) / Church 
> View Close, the village green in front of St Dochdwy's including 
> registered green VG 41, or the roadside verge by the churchyard wall.
> 
> 2. Whether the Council holds any photographs, postcards or images of 
> the farm, the barn, the green or the church surroundings, of any date.
> 
> 3. Whether the Council holds any recorded information showing what, if 
> anything, transferred to it from Penarth Town Council at the 1982 
> reorganisation, and any recorded information identifying where the 
> pre-1982 Llandough community records were deposited.
> 
> If the answer to any of these is that no such information is held, I 
> would be content with a short statement to that effect -- but I do need 
> it stated. Section 1(1)(a) of the Act requires the Council to confirm 
> or deny whether the information is held.
> 
> Section 10 (and regulation 5 of the EIR) allows twenty working days 
> from receipt, which on my request of 20 September 2026 I calculate as 
> 16 October 2026.
> 
> If the Council is refusing, section 17 (and regulation 14) requires a 
> written refusal notice identifying the exemption or exception relied 
> on; section 17(7) requires the Council to give particulars of any 
> complaints procedure it operates, or to state that it has none, and to 
> notify me of my right to apply to the Information Commissioner; and 
> regulation 11 gives a right to an internal review of any refusal under 
> the EIR.
> 
> "We have nothing more to add" does not meet those requirements. If the 
> period passes without a compliant response I will have no option but to 
> complain to the Information Commissioner.
> 
> PART TWO -- MATTERS FOR THE COUNCIL'S DISCRETION
> 
> These are not part of the request above and carry no deadline. They are 
> simply things I would be grateful for.
> 
> A. I am not asking for the name or contact details of any individual. I 
> am asking whether the Council would be willing to pass my details to 
> any former member, former clerk or long-standing resident who might 
> remember the village between the 1950s and the 1990s, leaving it 
> entirely to them whether to contact me. I appreciate the Council may 
> have data protection or administrative reasons for declining, and I 
> would not press it.
> 
> B. Whether the Council would be willing to table this correspondence at 
> a meeting and minute it. I am content for it to be tabled in full.
> 
> C. Whether the Council would consider, in due course, whether an 
> interpretation board or a plaque near the green would be appropriate. 
> The excavation on the land beneath Church View Close recorded 1,026 
> burials, described in the published report as by far the largest early 
> medieval burial population so far recovered from Wales, above a Roman 
> villa and an Iron Age roundhouse. That history belongs to Llandough as 
> much as to my family, and there is nothing on the ground that records 
> it. I would be glad to give the Council or the community a short talk 
> on the documentary record, without charge, if that would be useful.
> 
> I should be grateful for a response to items 1 to 3 by 16 October 2026.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Sion Buckler (Ret'd Sergeant)
> Royal Signals Cyber/ Electronic Warfare Professional and Life Member
> 
> On Sun, 20 Sept 2026, 18:31 Mo Misra, <[email redacted]> 
> wrote:
> 
>> Dear Mr Buckler,
>> 
>> Thanks for your email of 20th September 2026.
>> 
>> I note that our Clerk, Paul Egan, has already directed you to all the
>> information we have on the matter as indicated in paragraph 6 of your
>> email.
>> 
>> We have nothing more to add.
>> 
>> Best regards
>> 
>> Dr M C Misra,
>> Chair Llandough Community Council