Subject: RE: Supplement to complaint re-served 20 September 2026 — Great House Farm (Tŷ Mawr), Llandough From: (name not shown; gov.wales) Direction: received Date: Wed, 30 Sep 2026 08:41 UTC Institution: Welsh Government / Cadw Refs: ATISN27021 Archive id: gm-1a0f179fea76284a ------------------------------------------------------------ Good morning Mr Buckler, Your correspondence has been received by the Welsh Government Complaints advice team. The complaints policy allows us to consider complaints about Welsh Government’s administrative actions (i.e. maladministration) or service failure by us. The policy is available by post on request and can also be found on our website: How to make a complaint about Welsh Government [HTML] | GOV.WALES . The Policy does not allow us to consider complaints about a decision which has not involved maladministration. Your concerns will be addressed by the relevant officials within Welsh Government, who will respond to you directly and as soon as possible. Best Regards, Steffan Herdman Rheolwr Cwynion / Complaints Manager Y Tîm Cynghori ar Gwynion / Complaints Advice Team Gweithrediadau a Chyflenwi AD / HR Operations and Delivery Cyfarwyddiaeth Pobl a Lleoedd / People and Places Directorate Llywodraeth Cymru / Welsh Government From: Sion Buckler Sent: 22 September 2026 16:51 To: Wigley, Andy (LCC - Cadw) Cc: Complaints - Cwynion ; Cadw Planning Subject: Supplement to complaint re-served 20 September 2026 — Great House Farm (Tŷ Mawr), Llandough Dr Wigley, This is a supplement to the complaint re-served on 20 September, not a chaser. I do not expect a reply before the stage-one response. It adds seven matters under the existing headings at section 7, and one addition to the outcomes at section 9, set out at the end. The public interest is engaged alongside my family's. Great House Farm stood beside the Grade I church at Llandough, was recorded by the Royal Commission in 1974, sat within a known archaeological site, and was described in the post-demolition planning record as a "county treasure". I do not ask Cadw to treat the 1994 discoveries as knowledge it had in 1988. They show what was lost; the pre-1988 record is the measure of Cadw's process. On my family's account and the contemporary press report, protection was being sought in the first days of December 1988 and the house was demolished almost immediately afterwards. I do not ask Cadw to determine responsibility for the demolition. The grievance is narrower: protection was sought at the critical moment, and Cadw cannot now show what it considered. 1. The adopted development plan (matter A) The planning officer's report on application 89/01396/OUT records that the supporting information to Policy H.2 of the East Vale Local Plan "states that buildings on the site should be retained, however were unfortunately demolished a little while ago." I do not say this bound Cadw or required listing. I ask: (a) was Cadw aware of it in December 1988; (b) did the planning authority draw it to Cadw's attention; and (c) if neither can be established, will Cadw say so expressly. 2. The search undertaken on 21 May (matters D and F) Mr Weatherhead wrote that he had asked a colleague to search other paper files, "including the Welsh Office files", and would write again with the result, while fairly warning that some files had quite likely been destroyed. I have not received that letter. Please confirm whether the search was carried out, which series were searched, what was found, and whether Cadw regards the ATISN 27021 response of 11 June as its report of that search. 3. The meaning of "YYY" (matter J) Cadw has given two accounts of the marking — that the buildings were "marginally below the bar for listing" (21 May) and that the building did not meet the criteria (10 July) — and one inference, that it did not meet the criteria "as it was not included on the list" (29 July). I ask for one settled meaning, the documentary source for it, and, if there is none, a statement to that effect. 4. The retention period (matter J) Your email of 27 August said that no records of the historic retention arrangements are available, and that the three-year period is what current colleagues advised from their knowledge of the systems then in place. I ask only that the complaint response confirm expressly that this is an account of general practice, not evidence that the Great House Farm file was in fact destroyed after three years. 5. Professional archaeological knowledge of this site before December 1988 (matter C) On 22 September 2026 Amgueddfa Cymru disclosed to me, under FOI 2026-032, its collections records for two accessions from this site. The first, 82.44H, is the material from the Glamorgan-Gwent Archaeological Trust's excavation of 1979 on land formerly part of Great House Farm, carried out in advance of housing development. The museum's records give the findspot as ST 168 733, the donor as Wales & West Housing Association Ltd, and the published report as Owen-John 1988. The accession runs to several hundred entries and includes Roman coins, samian, glass, a bone scabbard slide and querns, together with medieval pottery and ironwork. This is not archaeology discovered after the event. By the time Cadw considered this building, the site had been professionally excavated, the finds had been accessioned by the national museum under a 1982 accession number, and the excavation report had been published. I therefore ask, as an addition to matter C: (a) whether Cadw held, or had access to, the 1979 excavation record or its published report when it considered the buildings in 1988; (b) whether that material was drawn to its attention by GGAT, the planning authority or the Royal Commission; and (c) if neither can now be established, that Cadw say so in terms. I do not say this material required the building to be listed. I say that the conclusion recorded in December 1988, that the site was not of sufficient archaeological interest, was reached against a professional record that already existed and is still held by the national museum today. 6. The National Museum attribution (matter H) The GGAT assessment of August 1990, which Cadw supplied to me on 21 May, states that "it is likely that some medieval ironwork which is held by the National Museum of Wales was discovered under the rear wing c 1880 (RCAHMW 1988)." The museum's disclosure allows that sentence to be tested, and the position is more precise than either of us has previously put it. The museum does hold medieval ironwork from this site — knife blades, arrowheads, a buckle and a pair of compasses within accession 82.44H — but as excavated material from 1979, not as an 1880 discovery beneath the rear wing. Its searches found no accession, donation or deposit answering the c.1880 provenance at all. The museum's own explanation, given in its disclosure, is that objects recorded as found at Church Farm, Llandough in 1858 and donated in 1963 under accession 63.24 "could well be the basis for such a local story/tradition". I therefore no longer ask Cadw to accept that the attribution is uncorroborated in the round. I ask, more narrowly, whether Cadw holds anything supporting the c.1880 rear-wing provenance beyond the GGAT sentence it forwarded, and whether it will ask that the derived record note the museum's findings rather than continue to carry the 1880 attribution unqualified. 7. Correcting the record (matter H) You directed me to Heneb as manager of the HER, which was reasonable. The only substantive reply I have had from Heneb is its statement of 22 May that it is not subject to FOI as a limited company; a schedule I sent on 19 September remains outstanding. The museum's disclosure now gives a firm anchor for what the record should show. Accession 95.56H comprises the material from the Cotswold Archaeological Trust excavation of 1994, donated by Ideal Homes Wales Ltd, and its locality is recorded in the museum's own collections database as "Great House Farm Llandough" at ST 1681 7331 — the grid reference carried by the historic environment record for this site. That accession runs to several hundred sets of early medieval human remains from this ground. As the statutory duty to keep historic environment records rests with the Welsh Ministers, I ask: (a) which body is responsible for correcting an inaccurate or incomplete historic environment record; (b) what Cadw's own role is where the record is managed by Heneb; and (c) what Cadw will do if the entry for this site (GGAT02038s) is not corrected to reflect the 1979 and 1994 excavations and the accessions arising from them. Correction to my letter of 20 September I said [email redacted] had rejected my correspondence on three occasions. Having checked properly, it rejected messages on at least eight occasions between January and September 2026: 23 January; 9 May (twice); 17 May; 10 August; 11 August; 29 August; and 17 September. Separate failures on 29 August and 17 September came from the retired address [email redacted] . I correct this because I have asked Cadw to distinguish what is established from what is inferred, and the same standard applies to me. Addition to the outcomes at section 9 6. A written acknowledgement that the 21 May undertaking was not reported on, and that Cadw's accounts of the 1988 assessment have varied. 7. A single statement of what can and cannot now be established about the 1988 decisions, which my family can rely on and cite. 8. That Cadw write to Heneb and the Royal Commission asking that their records for this site reflect that statement and the museum's accession records. 9. Consideration, under the Welsh Government complaints policy, of redress for the time and trouble my family has spent since May pursuing questions that Cadw's own records could not answer. I am content to supply the museum's disclosure to Cadw if that would assist, and my offer of 20 September stands: any 1988 Cadw correspondence recovered from the Royal Commission or Heneb will be sent to you. I remain grateful for the courtesy you and your colleagues have shown me. Yours sincerely, Sion Buckler (Ret'd Sergeant) Royal Signals Cyber/Electronic Warfare Professional and Life Member Sganiwyd y neges hon am bob feirws hysbys wrth iddi adael Llywodraeth Cymru. Mae Llywodraeth Cymru yn cymryd o ddifrif yr angen i ddiogelu eich data. Os cysylltwch â Llywodraeth Cymru, mae ein hysbysiad preifatrwydd<”https://gov.wales/about/welsh-government-privacy-notice/?lang=cy”> yn esbonio sut rydym yn defnyddio eich gwybodaeth a sut rydym yn diogelu eich preifatrwydd. 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