EV-0263 — Commons Registration Act 1965 s.5 and SI 1968/989: registrations were publicised by public notice only; Glamorgan County Council’s London Gazette notices of 22 October 1968 and 24 October 1969; second objection period for VG41 ran 1 May 1970 – 31 July 1972

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EV IDEV-0263
TitleCommons Registration Act 1965 s.5 and SI 1968/989: registrations were publicised by public notice only; Glamorgan County Council’s London Gazette notices of 22 October 1968 and 24 October 1969; second objection period for VG41 ran 1 May 1970 – 31 July 1972
Date of document1968–1972 (objection period ended 31 July 1972)
Typelegislation, London Gazette notices and Hansard
Evidence labelLEGISLATION AND GAZETTE (read)
Repository / referenceSI 1968/989 regs 3, 4, 7; Commons Registration Act 1965 s.5(1), (4), (6); London Gazette issue 44701, 22 Oct 1968, p.11349 and issue 44961, 24 Oct 1969, p.10767; HC Deb 29 Mar 1983 vol 40 c92W
StatusREAD (texts read 19 Oct 2026); the 1970 Glamorgan second-period notice listing VG41 NOT FOUND (Gazette OCR)
Provenancelegislation.gov.uk, The Gazette and Hansard, read 19 Oct 2026 (research cycles 12–13).
Related evidenceEV-0231 · EV-0232 (Commons Registration (Glamorgan) Act 1983)

Quotation (verbatim): Hansard, 29 Mar 1983: national Commons Commissioner figures exclude “the former county of Glamorgan, which is affected by the Commons Registration (Glamorgan) Bill”.

Fits with: Registrations were publicised by newspaper, display and Gazette notice. If an objection to VG41 was lodged (C.R. Form 26 by 31 July 1972), s.5(6) required referral to a Commons Commissioner, which would leave a decision file. Disputes in the former Glamorgan were held back pending the 1983 Act.

Cuts against: There was no statutory duty to notify an adjoining occupier such as Mary (Nancy) Williams, formerly Buckler, personally, which cuts against a “not notified” irregularity for VG41 and turns the question to whether an objection was lodged. The online Commons Commissioners’ decisions (archived 2026) have no South Glamorgan folder, but the collection is visibly incomplete. No Gazette notice by South Glamorgan CC under the 1983 Act was found for 1983–87 (the Act required local newspaper notices).

Notes: SOURCE PENDING: the Glamorgan 1970 second-period notice; any VG41 objection or Commissioner file (TNA MAF 540 snapshots not yet checked).

Catalogued by Cedwyn editors, 20 Oct 2026, from research of 16–20 Oct 2026 (free online sources only).

Interpretation: working hypotheses

Working hypotheses, kept apart from the record above. The record text on this page is unchanged. None of these is a finding: each line is labelled as inference, theory, a reading that cuts against the case, or a discarded theory, and names the evidence it rests on and what would confirm or refute it, so the reader can test it. Updated 25 Oct 2026 (v2: ingredients wording).

Three versions of Parcel A

THEORY · P-01Working hypothesis (the family's frame): three versions of Parcel A, the house parcel, which the family calls "synthetic", were created without the occupier as a party — A1, the Forest of Cardiff woodland title WA735527 (1994); A2, BP Properties' farmhouse title WA240304 (1983); A3, the village green VG41 registered by Glamorgan County Council (1970). Each turned land the family regarded as theirs into a registered or statutory parcel held by someone else.

Rests on: EV-0136 · EV-0166 · EV-0169 · EV-0065 · EV-0066 · EV-0044 · EV-0023

Would be confirmed by: Side-by-side plans showing each parcel overlapping the house parcel on the 1939 tenancy plan, and application papers silent about the person in occupation (LRA 1925 s.70(1)(g)).

Would be refuted by: Plans showing no overlap with the house parcel.

Status: Open (family hypothesis)

CUTS AGAINST THE CASE · P-02Cuts against A3: on the certified VG41 map the green is a small roadside wedge in front of the church, and objection No 314 was in the land section (whether the land is a green), not the ownership section. The "1970 synthetic Parcel A" reading is weak on the map read so far.

Rests on: EV-0044 · EV-0263 (this page) · research log E88

Would be confirmed by: A VG41 plan or Commons Commissioner file showing the green extended over the house parcel.

Would be refuted by: The certified map as read (a roadside wedge only).

Status: Weakened

Demolition, archaeology and the green

THEORY · H-03Ground R8: VG41 was registered in 1970 by Glamorgan County Council as registration authority; the same council's planning committee had heard her, reported as Mrs M. D. Buckler, on 19 Nov 1958 describe her family's land as "wrongfully appropriated". Working hypothesis: a separate route on the green, not a ground to reopen the 1987 judgment.

Rests on: EV-0044 · EV-0263 (this page) · EV-0232 · EV-0035 · EV-0036 · ground R8

Would be confirmed by: The Commons Commissioner or county council file on VG41.

Would be refuted by: A file showing the 1958 hearing and the green were handled by unconnected officers with no notice of the dispute.

Status: Open (ground R8, scores a1 b0 c2 d1)

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