“Llandough Farm”: village green planting plan
Planning drawing received: the site titled “Llandough Farm”; the “LLANDOUGH VILLAGE GREEN … to be maintained by LLANDOUGH COMMUNITY COUNCIL”. Ideal Homes Wales had bought the site from BP on 3 December 1993; the 20 houses of Church View Close followed.
👍❤️ Church View Close and the green (
VG41) and 1 other
Source
Legal Wiki EV-0133, planning drawings, Ideal Homes Wales, 1994; name variations page.
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(front page)
… company chiefs are bidding [to] build homes on land where battling South Wales farmer Billy Buckler fought unsuccessfully to stop bailiffs evicting him … Great House Farm Llandough … a legal wrangle stretching back 33 years …
Source
South Wales Echo, 23 February 1990, p.1 (British Newspaper Archive search-result text). Legal Wiki EV-0273.
Open the post · EV-0273
The council “wanted the land registered” as a village green
South Wales Echo p.1: the community council “wanted the land registered” as a village green. The ground south-east of the farmhouse is registered as VG41.
👍❤️ Church View Close and the green (VG41)
Source
South Wales Echo, 23 February 1990, p.1 (snippet only). Legal Wiki EV-0273; register of town or village greens (EV-0232).
Open the post · EV-0273 · EV-0232
At the council and committee meetings (minutes)
“RIGHT OF WAY FROM GREAT HOUSE FARM TO THE SWISS COTTAGES … there is no justification for the right of way being submitted … no further action.”
Source
Llandough Community Council minutes, 1987 (Legal Wiki EV-0214)
At the council meetings (minutes)
“Debenham Tewson, the agents for BP Properties”
Source
Llandough Community Council minutes, 1987 (Legal Wiki EV-0214)
Registration of the green as village green VG41 (Commons Registration Act 1965; Glamorgan County Council the registration authority).
Not published here.
Source
EV-0044 · VG41 village-green registration · Llandough Community Council: village green page · Woodland & Land-Transfer Assessment 1902–2005
Church View Close and the green (VG41)2 mutual friends
Ideal Homes Wales1 mutual friend
South Wales Echo1 mutual friend
Western Ground Rents Ltd0 mutual friends