Catalogue note — planning file for the houses built on the Great House Farm / Tŷ Mawr land, Llandough-juxta-Penarth.

These are the Vale of Glamorgan papers for outline application 89/01396/OUT (also stamped 8901396 OUT). They are filed as PDFs under pdf/planning/ and listed in pdf/_treeview.json.

1. 1989-10-16 — Form D, Town and Country Planning Act 1971.
   Applicant: BP Properties Ltd, Britannic House, Moor Lane, London EC2Y 9BU.
   Agent: Debenham Tewson Ltd, 3 Castle Street, Cardiff CF1 2RJ.
   Land at Leckwith Road, Llandough, South Glamorgan, edged red, site area about 3.4 acres. Applicant's adjoining land edged blue.
   Proposal: residential development including a new access road. Outline permission. Siting, design, external appearance, means of access and landscaping all reserved.
   Buildings to be demolished: stated "None" (the farm buildings had already been demolished).
   Certificate A under section 27(1)(a), signed for B.P. Properties Limited, dated 16/10/89: certifies that at the beginning of the 21 days ending with the application nobody except the applicant was the owner of any part of the land. "Owner" means a freehold interest or a leasehold with at least 7 years unexpired.
   Application dated October 1989. Council stamp records receipt.

2. GGAT comments and recommendations on 89/01396/OUT (Glamorgan-Gwent Archaeological Trust Ltd).
   The church of St Dochdwy and churchyard are treated as an early Christian monastic site, possibly from about 650, with a tenth- or eleventh-century cross shaft.
   1979 Wales and West Housing Association development south of the church: emergency excavation found part of an Iron Age farmstead, a high-status Roman villa, a dark-age cemetery, a medieval monastic grange of Tewkesbury Abbey, a late medieval village, and a post-medieval mill and farm, none visible before development. Reference: Biglis, Caldicot and Llandough (ed. D. M. Robinson), BAR 188 (1988).
   Information on Great House Farm itself was limited to the record of the recently demolished property, listed as a county treasure. GGAT asked for a mechanical-excavator assessment under archaeological supervision, estimated at two weeks and £2,000.
   Policies cited: South Glamorgan Structure Plan (June 1989) EV15; East Vale Local Plan (February 1987) E9; Welsh Office Circular 61/81 section 26 (scheduled or unscheduled monument is a material consideration); SI 1988 No 1812 section 4; Circular 1/85 Appendix B (premature development should be refused).
   GGAT recommended that the authority not determine the application until BP Properties provided an archaeological assessment by a qualified archaeologist (IFA Directory 1988-9).
   Negotiations via Debenham Tewson had not produced agreement. Llandough Community Council had offered £100 if BP met the balance. GGAT noted BP were not the developer in the strict sense: they wanted to sell with outline permission.
   Appendix: extract of GGAT letter to J. Maitland Evans, 1 October 1982. Ty Mawr Farm (H2.1) was a three-acre residential allocation. "There remains a possibility that occupation continues to the north of the church; provision should be made, therefore, for thorough investigative work prior to the development."

3. Manuscript officer report (consultations include further GGAT comment dated 8 February 1990).
   Site described as about 3.4 / 3.5 acres adjacent to St Dochdwy's parish church. All buildings, including Great House Farm, demolished.
   Outline application; illustrative layout of 18 dwellings and access to Leckwith Road, matters reserved.
   Planning history: 8996/3337, 13 houses, same site, approved conditionally 25 July 1972.
   Llandough Community Council: no objection, but part of the land is a registered village green.
   Engineering: public foul sewer only; alternative surface-water disposal required.
   Cardiff Bay Development Corporation: no objection; retain trees on the north-west slope and the public right of way through the site.
   Welsh Water: applicant to liaise on foul drainage; a connection to the new Eastern District pumping main would not be permitted.
   Representations from the Barry Preservation Society and a county councillor (a member of GGAT), attached as appendices C and D (those letters are not in this scan).
   Applicant's agents replied to GGAT; that letter was appendix E (not in this scan).
   Most of the land allocated for housing in the East Vale Local Plan (policy H2.1). The policy said buildings on the site should be retained; they had been demolished a little while before. The remainder is inside the developed area. Sections are too steep. The site includes a registered village green (a very small area is also the subject of two searches) and is crossed by a public right of way.
   Recommendation: approve, subject to conditions, including the standard archaeology condition in Appendix B to Welsh Office Circular 1/85.
   Draft conditions include: structures only on level ground, not on steep or wooded areas; at least 0.1 ha (0.25 acre) beside Leckwith Road and the church boundary kept as village green / amenity; vehicular access at the north-western edge onto the A4055 with 4.5 m x 60 m sightlines; estate roads minimum 5.5 m with 1.8 m footways and 10.5 m kerb radii; public right of way along the north-western boundary not obstructed; retain the stone wall.

4. Decision, 13 March 1990. Vale of Glamorgan Borough Council. Application 89/01396/OUT.
   Outline permission GRANTED for residential development including a new access road at Land at Great House Farm, Leckwith Road, Llandough, Penarth.
   Application and plans received 8 November 1989.
   Reserved matters within 3 years; development begun within 5 years of this permission or 2 years of the last reserved-matter approval, whichever is later.
   Condition 5: 0.25 acres adjacent to Leckwith Road and the boundary with St Dochdwy's Church to be laid out as a village green / amenity area before beneficial use. Reason: to retain and enhance the existing registered village green.
   Condition 8: do not obstruct the public right of way along the north-western boundary.
   Condition 15: retain and make good the existing stone wall fronting the site, except where the access or building operations require otherwise.
   Conditions 16–18: archaeologist nominated by the authority may observe excavations; no development until a field evaluation and archaeological assessment by a qualified archaeologist, to be carried out within three months of the consent; detail plans must have regard to that assessment.

5. Plans bundle (one PDF, several dates).
   - Debenham Tewson 1:2500 location plan, identification only, stamped 8901396. Shows St Dochdwy's, the farm group, Llandough Moors and the surrounding streets.
   - Certified true copy of the register map, Deputy County Solicitor, 18 June 1985. Marks VG 41 and OBJ No 314 (LAND) at Llandough.
   - Heronhurst Homes exercise layout, Llandough, South Glamorgan, drawn 16.09.91, scale 1:500. Schedule: types E 3, F 3, H 3, W 4, Y 1, total 14. Net area about 2.40 acres. Shows St Dochdwy's Parish Church, village green, Leckwith Road A4055, and a public footpath.
   - Ideal Homes Wales / Wyn Thomas + Partners, job "Llandough Farm, Llandough", site layout 1, drawing 3024, March 1992, scale 1:500. Received by Planning and Development 16 December 1995. House types: Penlan 6, Sutton 9, Budworth 6, total 21. Village green to be maintained by Llandough Community Council and to form part of a pedestrian gateway to the Vale. Area to the north noted as to be maintained by the Forest of Cardiff Group. Penlan Road and a 5 m footpath are shown.
   - Fax cover sketch from Debenham Tewson, 29 January 1998, a further housing layout on Leckwith Road.

The outline consent is the planning permission under which the later housing layouts for this land were drawn. The 1972 consent (8996/3337) is the earlier permission on the same site recorded in the 1990 officer report.