Subject: Re: Great House Farm (Tŷ Mawr), Llandough — request for information under FOIA 2000 / EIR 2004
From: Sion Buckler
Direction: sent
Date: Mon, 28 Sep 2026 08:46 UTC
Institution: Llandough Community Council
Refs: none
Archive id: gm-1a0e731a41ab4507
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Also,

I had one of my agents produce the following public website:
greathousefarmwiki.wordpress.com

Regards,

Sion Buckler (Ret'd Sergeant)

On Mon, 28 Sept 2026, 09:31 Mo Misra,   wrote:

> Dear Mr Buckler,
>
> Your email of the 21st September has been passed over to our clerk (in
> copy) for consideration.
>
> Best regards
> ---
> 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,  
> 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
>
>