Tŷ Mawr at Council Download PDF

Llandough Community CouncilThursday 22 October 2026, 7.00pm

Preserving our identity.

That is the Council's own mission statement. On 22 October it considers Tŷ Mawr, the Great House of Llandough: a home our family account traces back to 1667, demolished at about 4am on 6 December 1988. Its wider heritage and the family's unresolved title questions are still largely absent from the Council's published story.

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Tŷ Mawr: a two-storey limewashed stone farmhouse with three chimneys behind a rubble-stone wall, under a dark sky
Tŷ Mawr, 29 July 1988. Cadw photograph, released to the family in May 2026. The house was demolished 130 days later.
  1. 320 years at home.Family account, 1667–1988
  2. Gone before breakfast.Demolished from about 4am, 6 December 1988
  3. 38 years out of the story.Great House remains absent from the Council's published village history

The briefing.

Nine compartments, in order. Say the line in bold, then move on. Open a compartment only if a councillor asks: the record is underneath, with what is still being tested and the answer to the obvious objection.

C1Who we areWe are the Williams–Buckler family of Tŷ Mawr, the Great House of Llandough. Our family lived there for 320 years.

On the record

  • Heneb's Historic Environment Record says the manorial courts of Llandough and Leckwith were held at Great House. On record
  • Mary Williams's statement of about 1974, and the 1974 press, record the family at Great House since 1667. Family account
  • William Buckler was born in the house. In 1988 three small children lived there. On record

Still being tested

  • No deed of 1667 has yet been found. The 1670 hearth tax and Bute estate leases are being searched. Being sought

What cuts against us

  • The heritage record says the Vaughans held Great House as the chief freehold farm from the mid-16th to the late 18th century. Both accounts can be true only if the Williamses held under them. On record

If asked “Weren't you tenants?” The 1939 tenancy plan, now held, depicts the eastern fields only, not the house. Mary refused the tenancies offered for the house.

Evidence: Wiki: The Williams / Buckler Family · Wiki: Mary Williams's Statement (c. 1974) · Heneb HER GGAT02038s

C2What lies thereThe ground at Church View Close held one of the great early Christian cemeteries of Wales. Nothing marks it.

On the record

  • A published study reports 1,026 burials from the early medieval cemetery excavated there in 1994, the largest such population recovered in Wales. On record
  • St Dochdwy's monastery is attested from the 7th century. Heneb says its exact site has not been established. On record
  • Medieval pottery was found on the slope beside the house in 1962–63. The Roman villa south of the church is a separate site. On record
  • Published sources record Peerless Jim Driscoll's first fight in a barn at Great House Farm. On record
  • Marconi's 1897 wireless trials crossed from Lavernock to Flat Holm. On record

Still being tested

  • Family tradition that Thomas Williams of Great House carted Marconi's equipment. Family account
  • Where the monastery stood. It is not proven to lie beneath Tŷ Mawr. Being sought

What cuts against us

  • Museum Wales traces the medieval spur and spearhead linked to the “armour” story to Church Farm, 1858, not to Great House. On record
  • It has not been shown that the 1994 burials lay on the family's own parcel. Being sought

If asked “Isn't this history already told?” The Council's own village history says 800 burials and does not mention Great House at all.

Evidence: Holbrook and Thomas, Medieval Archaeology 49 (2005) · Wiki: Archaeology and Heritage · Stead and Williams, Wales and its Boxers (2008)

C3Mary's parcelFor decades Mary Williams said the house was hers. She was treated as a tenant, and in 1983 her home was registered to BP while she lived in it.

On the record

  • April 1974: Mary opened the house to the public and told the Daily Telegraph it was hers. Her solicitors said she had a valid claim. On record
  • She refused the tenancies offered for the house in 1959 and 1965. On record
  • BP's 1974 action, in which she pleaded ownership, was adjourned and not relisted. On record
  • 23 February 1983: BP's solicitors applied to register the farmhouse as a separate title, certifying no question or doubt. Mary died on 26 March 1983. On record
  • 2 February 1987: that title was amalgamated into the fields title, before the Court of Appeal hearing. On record
  • The 1939 tenancy plan depicts the eastern fields, Parcel B, only. On record
  • The Land Registry's 43-item schedule does not list the 1969 deed recited as the root of BP's title. On record

Still being tested

  • The family's case: two parcels since 1877, the house parcel theirs from 1928. Family account
  • A 15 May 1924 agreement on the Land Registry file, not yet read. Being sought
  • The “synthetic Parcel A” working hypothesis: that registration and merger made the house appear to follow the fields' title. Being sought
  • The family's account that notice of registration reached them only after Mary's death. Family account

What cuts against us

  • The 1916 tenancy described the farm as one holding, and later documents repeated that wording. On record
  • HM Land Registry says there is no evidence of a mistake; its stage-two decision says the title is registered correctly. That decision is with the Independent Complaints Reviewer. On record

If asked “The register is conclusive.” The register can be corrected for mistake, and a person in actual occupation in 1982 had protected rights.

Evidence: Wiki: The Two Parcels · Wiki: Land Registry Titles · Wiki: Anomalies A-008 to A-012, A-025, A-026 · Wiki: 1987 HMLR amalgamation during appeal

C4The courtsThe family lost every round on who could stay. No court has ruled on who owned the house.

On the record

  • High Court 1986 and Court of Appeal 1987 decided possession. The House of Lords refused leave in 1988; Strasbourg found the application inadmissible in 1989. On record
  • The Court of Appeal counted the possession period from a 1955 order. On record
  • The appeal judgment notes certain documents were never produced. Mary's statement says the family's papers went missing in 1950–52. Family account
  • On 5 December 1988 the court refused to wait for Strasbourg. The house came down the next morning. On record
  • The House of Lords papers were identified on 23 September 2026 after earlier searches missed them. The Strasbourg file was destroyed in 2000. On record

Still being tested

  • Procedural unfairness, court error and non-disclosure. Reopening needs new primary evidence; the Lords papers are not yet read. Being sought

What cuts against us

  • The Court of Appeal found the 1974 letters made later occupation permissive, whether or not Mary accepted them. On record
  • Strasbourg held the interference with William Buckler's home lawful and justified. On record

If asked “The courts have decided this.” They decided possession. The family's title case on the house parcel has not been tried.

Evidence: BP Properties Ltd v Buckler [1987] EWCA Civ 2 · Wiki: BP v Buckler, Scope, Decided and Undecided · Wiki: Potential Miscarriage of Justice register

C5The dispossessionIn 1988 a Welsh family was removed from its home and the house demolished before dawn. It was reported as an eviction.

On the record

  • Press, 29 April 1988: five bailiffs and about fifteen police; doors broken with poleaxes, children behind them. On record
  • Press, December 1988: William Buckler injured, taken to hospital, and charged from his hospital bed. On record
  • Press, 6 December 1988: bulldozers from about 4am; William's wife and their three children watched; nothing standing by breakfast. On record
  • Press, 1989: the family's possessions lost and the family rehoused with relatives. On record
  • Press: a Vale councillor called the demolition “disgusting”; villagers met their councillors. On record

Still being tested

  • The family's account that police searched the house and removed documents. Family account

What cuts against us

  • Press, 1989: one charge was withdrawn as out of time; William Buckler pleaded guilty to the others. On record

If asked “Why has it taken so long?” Witnesses died, papers were lost and the trauma silenced the family. Key records surfaced only in 2026.

Evidence: Wiki: 1988, Possession and Demolition · Press transcripts GHF-E090-N07 to N15

C6The heritage erasedA Welsh manor house beside an early Christian site was cleared, and the official record was left saying almost nothing.

On the record

  • The Local Plan said the buildings should be retained. GGAT's 1989 report described the farmhouse as a “county treasure”. On record
  • Cadw refused to list it on 5 December 1988. No assessment file or destruction record has been produced. On record
  • GGAT warned in 1982. In 1990 untested ground was zoned low potential. Burials were found there in 1994. On record
  • The heritage record classes the site “Post Medieval – Farm”. The Royal Commission recorded it only in part. On record
  • A 1983 fire destroyed relics from years of excavations (South Wales Echo, 18 March 1983). On record

Still being tested

  • The family's account that the fire was at a Neath store and that Llandough material was lost. Family account
  • Whether the 1990 evaluation was adequate on what was known then. Being sought

What cuts against us

  • GGAT disclosed its dual role in 1990, recommended recording and protection, and did not advise demolition. On record
  • Cadw said in 1988 that the house was not of sufficient architectural merit to list. On record

If asked “Missing records prove nothing.” Agreed, on their own. These are files public bodies had a duty to keep, and they should account for the gaps.

Evidence: Wiki: Anomalies A-036 to A-052, PL-002 to PL-008 · Wiki: Missing Records M-018 to M-028

C7The records wallMore than twenty bodies have been asked for the records over eighteen months. What would settle the questions has not yet been produced.

On the record

  • 54 records identified as missing, withheld or not yet produced. On record
  • The Ministry of Justice has not yet answered our MP. The Ministry of Defence will neither confirm nor deny whether it holds certain records. On record
  • This Council refused on cost; a review is pending. The Vale's scrutiny team declined, citing the Welsh Government, Cadw, MSs and MPs. On record
  • The Wales Office searched only digital records. Planning appendices B–E have not been produced. On record

Still being tested

  • Fraud, deliberate concealment and improper government involvement are not established. Disclosure is the test, whichever way it falls. Being sought

What cuts against us

  • Several bodies have disclosed material: the Royal Commission, Museum Wales, Cadw's photographs and the Land Registry schedule. On record
  • A missing record is not, on its own, proof of concealment. On record

If asked “Isn't this a fishing expedition?” Every request names a specific record. The registers list them one by one.

Evidence: Wiki: Missing Records Register · Wiki: Records Access Chronology · dartboard.bucklerfamily.estate

C8Rights, identity, public interestThis is a matter of human rights, Welsh heritage and public interest, not one family's grievance.

On the record

  • In 1989 Strasbourg accepted the possession order interfered with William Buckler's home, but held it justified. On record
  • About a thousand people signed to save the house in 1974. An MP asked the Lord Chancellor to review the case in 1988. On record
  • In 1980 the Commons heard Western Ground Rents called the most rapacious ground landlord in South Wales. On record
  • Tonight's agenda already asks about Welsh culture (Item 14) and local identity (Item 12). On record

Still being tested

  • The family's view: Welsh land, history and identity were overridden and erased, as indigenous peoples' have been elsewhere. Family account

What cuts against us

  • Indigenous-rights language is the family's framing; it is not a legal category UK courts currently apply to Wales. On record

If asked “Why should a community council get involved?” Its own mission is preserving our identity. It is the community's voice to the Senedd and the Vale.

Evidence: Hansard, 22 May 1980 · Buckler v United Kingdom (14464/88) · Wiki: Q&A, Human Rights and Public Law

C9What we askPut it on the record. Make it a standing item. Recommend an independent inquiry. Support disclosure, and the family. We are not seeking anyone's home at Church View Close.

If asked “What can a community council do?” Record it, write letters, recommend an inquiry, and keep it on the agenda. That is how this starts.

Evidence: The ask, below

Research has only started. The family does not claim that fraud, deliberate concealment or improper government involvement has been established or that the legal threshold to reopen the case has been met. Some records have been disclosed; others are missing, reported destroyed, not yet produced or still under review. The public record establishes important facts but leaves specific title and procedural questions unresolved.

  • 86open lines of enquiryAnomalies Register: 71 issues plus 15 planning anomalies
  • 54records missing or withheldMissing Records Register, M-001 to M-054
  • 20+bodies asked since November 2025Records Access Chronology

Item 10 is too small for this.

Ten proposals are set out below. The priority decisions sought tonight are (1) receive and minute the pack, (2) make the matter a standing item and appoint a liaison councillor, and (5) write to record-holders in support of disclosure and preservation. Ask the Council to discuss the remaining proposals; if there is insufficient time or agenda authority to decide them, request named referrals or a properly notified future agenda rather than rushing ten separate resolutions.

01Put it on the recordReceive the family's statement and this pack, and minute them.

The Council's published village-history page omits Great House. Receiving this statement would place the family's account in the record of this meeting.

Draft resolutionThat the Council receives the statement and meeting pack of the Williams–Buckler family, records them in the minutes, and publishes them with the papers for this meeting.

02Make it a standing itemName a councillor. Bring it back every meeting until it is resolved.

This is the first meeting, not the last. Detail belongs to later meetings, in public, with papers in advance.

Draft resolutionThat “Great House Farm / Tŷ Mawr” is placed on the agenda of each ordinary meeting until the Council resolves otherwise, and that Councillor ______ acts as the Council's liaison with the family.

03Recommend an independent inquiryAsk the Senedd to consider an independent public inquiry.

The Vale's scrutiny team declined because the matter is already before the Welsh Government, Cadw, MSs and MPs. That makes it a Senedd-level question. The Senedd has already advised the family to petition.

Draft resolutionThat the Council writes to the Senedd's Petitions Committee and Culture Committee and to the area's Members of the Senedd, recommending that an independent inquiry be considered into the dispossession of the Williams–Buckler family, the demolition of Great House in 1988, the handling of the site's heritage, and the records since; and that it supports any petition the family brings.

04Acknowledge the harmRecognise what the family went through, and ask for support for them.

Three generations lived through the evictions, the demolition and 38 years without a hearing. Recognition costs the Council nothing.

Draft resolutionThat the Council acknowledges the distress and indignity suffered by the Williams–Buckler family in the 1988 dispossession and since, and writes to Cardiff and Vale University Health Board supporting the family's access to trauma-informed counselling.

05Speak up for disclosureWrite to the bodies holding the records, and ask them to keep everything.

A letter from the community's own council carries weight no family letter can. It asks for openness, not a verdict.

Draft resolutionThat the Clerk writes on the Council's behalf to Cadw, the Vale of Glamorgan Council, HM Land Registry, Amgueddfa Cymru and the National Library of Wales, and to the Ministry of Justice about its outstanding reply to Stephen Doughty MP, copied to Mr Doughty and the area's Members of the Senedd, supporting full and prompt disclosure to the family and the preservation of all records meanwhile.

06Open the Council's own recordsAn independent review, separate answers, and a hold on the files.

The refusal priced the request at 224 sets of minutes and gave figures that do not reconcile. Land and heritage records can fall under the Environmental Information Regulations, which have no automatic cost cap.

Draft resolutionThat the internal review of the 11 October refusal is conducted by a person other than the officer who made it; that the environmental-information request and the subject access request of 12 October are each answered under their own law and time limit; and that all Council records concerning Great House, Church View Close and village green VG41 are preserved.

07Correct the Council's own historyThe village history page says 800 burials and nothing about Great House.

The page gives “over 800 burials” (the published report counts 1,026), dates the Roman villa to the 1990s (it was excavated in 1978–79), and does not mention Great House, the Williams family or the demolition.

Draft resolutionThat the Council's published village history is revised, with heritage advice and the family's input, to record Great House, the manorial courts held there, its demolition in 1988, and the 1,026 inhumation burials reported in the published excavation study.

08Mark it on the groundA board or memorial near the green: monastery, the 1,026 dead, the manor, Marconi, Peerless Jim.

There is nothing on the ground that records any of it. The family has offered a free talk to the Council or residents.

Draft resolutionThat a working group is set up to scope an interpretation board or memorial near the green, covering St Dochdwy's monastery, the 1,026 early medieval burials, Great House and the manor, the 1897 wireless trials and Peerless Jim Driscoll, with wording checked against sources and agreed with the family; and to explore a Llandough companion to the Marconi artwork on the Cardiff Barrage; that the working group consults the residents of Church View Close, St Dochdwy's parish and the family before any wording is agreed; and that the Council asks Amgueddfa Cymru what is planned for the long-term care of the human remains excavated in 1994, including whether reburial near the church has been considered.

09Find the witnessesInvite people who remember the village from the 1950s to the 1990s to come forward.

This is the request already listed as Item 10(a). Forwarding an invitation discloses nobody's data.

Draft resolutionThat the Council forwards the family's invitation to former members, former clerks and long-standing residents, leaving it to them whether to make contact; no personal details to be disclosed without consent.

10Carry it into tonight's other businessItems 12 and 14 are about identity and culture. Tŷ Mawr belongs in both.

The agenda already asks the Council to think about Welsh culture, sport and local identity. Here is Llandough's strongest example.

Draft resolutionThat Tŷ Mawr's heritage, including Peerless Jim Driscoll and the 1897 wireless trials, is considered in the Council's response to the Welsh Government call for evidence on culture and sport (Item 14, closing 18 December 2026) and in the heritage and identity of the proposed Llandough and Cwrtyrala Community Council (Item 12).

Not asked: for the Council to decide ownership, fraud or whether any court was right. Those belong to courts and regulators. The Council is asked to put the matter on record and use its own powers.

“Serving our community, preserving our identity.”

The Council's mission statement, and its four commitments:

  • Be open and accessible in all our decision making
  • Be accountable in all our council activities
  • Be responsive to the needs of the community
  • Encourage community participation

The running order.

Where each point fits on the published agenda, from now until the minutes.

By Friday 16 OctoberSend the pack to the ClerkAsk for a properly worded Item 10, circulation to members, and time to speak.
  • Email this PDF to clerk@llandough-cc.co.uk with the covering letter on page 1.
  • Ask the Clerk and Chair to confirm whether the expanded Item 10 wording can be added through a supplementary or revised agenda under the Council's standing orders and applicable notice requirements. If permitted, ask for publication by Saturday 17 October. Do not assume that a narrower published item can automatically be expanded.
  • Ask a community councillor to give written notice of a motion in the same terms, so the Council can decide something on the night.
  • Ask the Chair for up to ten minutes under Item 10, as well as the public session.
  • Ask the Clerk to list the family's letters of 12 October under Item 16.
  • Ask the Clerk for the Council's standing orders on public speaking: time allowed, and whether the Chair may invite the family to speak under Item 10.
  • Tell the Clerk of any access needs in good time: Welsh-language contribution, large-print copies, or remote attendance.
Item 1Declarations of interestListen. Members connected to the site or the parties should declare.
  • Anyone living on or next to Church View Close, or with links to the developer, landowner or the 1980s parties, should say so before the item is discussed.
Item 4Public participationThe three-minute statement. Scope, not detail. End with the four asks.
  • Use the statement in “At the microphone”.
  • Ask the Chair at the start whether you may make an audio record of Item 10 for your own notes. Wales has no automatic right to film or record community council meetings, so ask rather than assume.
  • Ask the Chair, before you sit down, whether the family may speak again when Item 10 is reached.
Item 5Councillor George CarrollThe Vale ward member for Llandough. Ask him to take three things to the Vale.
  • The missing Appendices C, D and E from the Vale's FOI disclosure (request 00211557).
  • The Vale Scrutiny Committee's reply that it was unable to consider the family's request.
  • The history of village green VG41, registered 16 June 1970 beside the farm.
Item 10Great House Farm / Tŷ MawrThe main event. Walk the ten asks. Push for a decision on the first, second and fifth.
  • If the Council cannot decide everything tonight, ask for a working group and a date.
  • Ask that every action is minuted with a name and a deadline.
Item 12Llandough and Cwrtyrala Community CouncilA new council needs a heritage. Ask that Tŷ Mawr is part of it.
Item 14Welsh Government: culture and sportPeerless Jim and Marconi make Llandough a case study. Offer to help draft.
Item 16CorrespondenceCheck the family's 12 October letters are listed. No decisions can be taken here.
Within a weekFollow upAsk for the draft minutes, the named liaison councillor, and the date the item returns.
  • Check the draft minutes against your own notes and ask for any correction in writing.
  • Publish the outcome, unedited, on the Wiki and in the project highlight report, including anything that went against the family.
  • Thank the Council in writing, whatever it decided.

The story they told.

Contemporary coverage framed the dispute as an eviction. These articles show what was reported at the time; they do not prove every claim in print.

The stone barn at Great House Farm, 1988
The barn at Great House Farm, 29 July 1988 (Cadw). Peerless Jim Driscoll's first fight is recorded in a barn here.

The wall.

Twenty organisations asked for records over eighteen months. Eight steps each before a request is exhausted. 60 of 160 steps taken; none has reached a tribunal.

Where disclosure stands.

No complaint has yet gone to the Information Commissioner or the Public Services Ombudsman for Wales. Those are the next steps if disclosure does not come.

Every request, every step.

  1. 1 Enquiry
  2. 2 Reply
  3. 3 Chase
  4. 4 Review
  5. 5 Complaint
  6. 6 Regulator
  7. 7 Democratic
  8. 8 Tribunal

From the family's own correspondence log, to 12 October 2026. A ring counts as opened when the family has taken that step with that body; it is not a finding about how any body behaved.

This Council's own file.A cost refusal that does not add up, reviewed by the person who made it.Read more
  1. 21 September 2026Request to the Council for records of Great House, the green and the 1982 transfer.
  2. 11 October 2026Refused on cost: reading and assessing 224 sets of minutes, 2002–2016. The letter gives 20 + 10 minutes a set (6,720 minutes) but totals “over 2,240 minutes”.
  3. 12 October 2026Internal review requested, plus a separate environmental-information request, a subject access request and a request to preserve records. Review asked of the same Clerk.
  4. 9 November 2026Twenty working days: environmental-information reply due.
  5. 12 November 2026One month: subject access reply due.
Three rights, not one.Freedom of information, environmental information and your own data are separate laws.Read more
FOIFreedom of Information Act 2000

General recorded information. Twenty working days. A council may refuse if compliance would cost more than £450 (18 hours at £25), but must estimate reasonably and offer advice to narrow the request.

EIREnvironmental Information Regulations 2004

Information on land, development and the historic environment. Twenty working days. No automatic cost cap: refusal only if “manifestly unreasonable”, and then only if the public interest favours it.

SARUK GDPR, Article 15

Information about the person asking. One month, free. Covers what the Council holds about the living family members; it does not cover records about people who have died.

If nothing is done.

The concerns the Council should hear, whichever way the records eventually fall.

  1. Records keep disappearing.Preservation of the Land Registry files has not been confirmed. Every year without a hold is another chance of loss.
  2. Witnesses are dying.Mary died in 1983, William in 1992. People who remember the 1950s to the 1980s will not be here for long.
  3. The dead stay unmarked.1,026 people from St Dochdwy's monastic cemetery, with nothing on the ground to say so.
  4. The wrong story becomes the official one.The heritage record classes the site as “Post Medieval – Farm”. The Council's own history omits it.
  5. The green has a history too.The family's case is that village green VG41 was part of their farm until 1955. The Council's records on it are among those requested.

At the microphone.

About three minutes in the public session. Sixty seconds if time is short.

  1. Name the source. Say where a fact comes from: the court, the heritage record, the newspaper, the archive.
  2. Say whose account it is. “Our family account is…” is accurate, and accuracy is hard to dismiss.
  3. Ask for a decision and a date. Every ask ends with who does it and when it comes back.
The sixty-second versionRead it

Chair, councillors, thank you. My family lived at Great House Farm, Tŷ Mawr, beside St Dochdwy's Church, from 1667 until it was demolished at about 4am on 6 December 1988. The manorial courts sat in that house. A published study reports 1,026 early medieval burials from the ground beside it. In 1983 the farmhouse was registered to BP while my grandmother lived in it; the courts decided possession, not ownership. Your own village history mentions none of this. Our research has only started, and the records that would test it have not yet been produced. Tonight we ask four things: put our statement on the record, make Tŷ Mawr a standing item with a named councillor, recommend a Senedd inquiry, and write in support of disclosure. Your mission is preserving our identity. Tŷ Mawr is part of it. Thank you.

The three-minute statementRead it

Chair, councillors, thank you for placing this on the agenda.

My grandmother was Mary Williams of Great House Farm, Tŷ Mawr, beside St Dochdwy's Church. Our family account is that we lived in that house from 1667 until it was demolished at about four in the morning on 6 December 1988.

Item 10 describes a plaque and a mailing list. The subject is wider than that, so I will take it in short parts.

The house. Heneb's record says the manorial courts of Llandough and Leckwith sat at Great House. The Local Plan said its buildings should be retained. It was never fully recorded before it came down.

The ground. A published study reports 1,026 burials from the early medieval cemetery excavated there in 1994, the largest such population recovered in Wales. The monastery's exact site has never been established. Nothing on the ground marks any of it, and the Council's own village history does not mention Great House.

My grandmother. For decades she said the house was hers. She refused every tenancy offered for it. In February 1983, while she lived there, BP applied to register the farmhouse as its own title; she died that March. In 1987, while the appeal was running, that title was merged into the fields.

The courts. They decided who could stay. The family lost. They did not decide who owned the house. The house came down the morning after Cadw refused to list it, while our Strasbourg application was pending.

The records. More than twenty bodies have been asked. Cadw's 1988 file is missing with no record of destruction. The Land Registry's list of 43 documents does not include the 1969 deed BP's title rests on. The Ministry of Justice has not yet answered our MP.

Our research has only started. Nothing yet meets the threshold to reopen the case, and we do not claim it does. That is why the records matter.

We ask for four things. Put our statement on the public record. Make Great House Farm a standing item, with a named councillor. Recommend to the Senedd that an independent inquiry be considered. And write in support of disclosure and preservation of the records. We also ask you to recognise what three generations of my family have been through. We are not seeking anyone's home at Church View Close.

Your mission is “Serving our community, preserving our identity”. Tŷ Mawr is part of that identity. Thank you.

Plain-text version for printing

Send it to the Clerk.

One PDF: covering letter, the replacement wording for Item 10, draft resolutions, running order, statement, the record and the sources. Ready to email to clerk@llandough-cc.co.uk.

Download the meeting pack (PDF)
Tŷ Mawr gerbron y CyngorCrynodeb yn GymraegAgor

Ar 22 Hydref 2026 bydd Cyngor Cymuned Llandochau yn ystyried Tŷ Mawr (Great House Farm), cartref teulu Williams–Buckler nes iddo gael ei ddymchwel ar 6 Rhagfyr 1988.

Mae'r teulu'n gofyn i'r Cyngor roi eu datganiad ar y cofnod cyhoeddus; gwneud Tŷ Mawr yn eitem sefydlog gyda chynghorydd cyswllt; argymell i'r Senedd y dylid ystyried ymchwiliad annibynnol; ac ysgrifennu i gefnogi datgelu a diogelu'r cofnodion.

Nid yw'r teulu'n ceisio cartref neb yn Church View Close.

Cenhadaeth y Cyngor yw “Gwasanaethu ein cymuned, gwarchod ein hunaniaeth”. Mae Tŷ Mawr yn rhan o'r hunaniaeth honno.

Cyfieithiad drafft o'r crynodeb Saesneg. Croesawn gywiriadau gan siaradwyr Cymraeg.

How this was preparedVersion 4.3, 14 October 2026. Method, corrections and right of reply.Open

Sion Buckler, grandson of Mary Williams, for the Williams–Buckler family.

Drafted with AI assistance from the family's public Wiki registers, its correspondence log and published sources, then checked and approved by the family. Every statement carries a label: on record, family account, or being sought. Statements that cut against the family's case are shown alongside it.

If anything here is wrong, please tell us through the Great House Farm Wiki (greathousefarmwiki.wordpress.com). Corrections are made openly, dated, and noted in the change history. Any person or body named here is invited to reply, and replies will be published in full on the Wiki.

Source and full change history: github.com/unclehowell/datro, branch 2026-10-22, folder static/2026-10-22.

How to read the labels, and the sourcesOpen
  • On record Court, heritage record, archive, Hansard or contemporary newspaper
  • Family account The family's account or legal case, being tested
  • Being sought Not yet established; records requested
  1. Agenda, Council meeting 22 October 2026 (issued 13 October 2026)
  2. Heneb Historic Environment Record GGAT02038s, Great House, Llandough
  3. Holbrook and Thomas, The Early Medieval Monastic Cemetery at Llandough, Medieval Archaeology 49 (2005)
  4. Archaeology Data Service: Llandough cemetery archive
  5. Coflein NPRN 400051, Roman villa site, Llandough
  6. Llandough Community Council, About Llandough
  7. Amgueddfa Cymru, GPO trials of Marconi in 1897
  8. Jim Driscoll (citing the National Monuments Record for Wales)
  9. Stead and Williams (eds), Wales and its Boxers: The Fighting Tradition (University of Wales Press, 2008)
  10. BP Properties Ltd v Buckler [1987] EWCA Civ 2
  11. Hansard, House of Commons, 22 May 1980 (Ted Rowlands MP on Western Ground Rents)
  12. Buckler v United Kingdom, European Commission of Human Rights, inadmissible 14 April 1989
  13. ICO: requests spanning FOI, EIR and data protection
  14. Welsh Government: A vision for culture and sport in Wales, call for evidence
  15. Vale of Glamorgan Council: Cllr George Carroll, Llandough ward
  16. The full story: bpvsbuckler.bucklerfamily.estate
  17. Records-access tracker: dartboard.bucklerfamily.estate
  18. Great House Farm Wiki — public documentary archive
  19. Wiki: The Two Parcels — full Parcel A / separate eastern Parcel B
  20. Wiki: 1939 revised tenancy agreement and plan
  21. Wiki: BP v Buckler — scope, decided and undecided
  22. Wiki: 1982–83 registration and opportunity to object
  23. Wiki: 1987 HMLR amalgamation during appeal
  24. Wiki: 1877 Bute–Thomas agreement — original not yet obtained
  25. Wiki: Land Registry titles and newly identified 1924 agreement
  26. Wiki: Anomalies Register (lines of enquiry)
  27. Wiki: Missing Records Register
  28. Wiki: Master Scrutiny Issue Register
  29. Wiki: Records Access Chronology
  30. Wiki: Anticipated Objections and the Family's Answers
  31. Wiki: 1988, Possession and Demolition (press transcripts)
  32. Great House Farm Wiki (archived 10 October 2026)