Highlight Report HR-03

20 October 2026

20 October 2026

AMBER On time. HM Land Registry copies and the subject access reply are outstanding. No ground to reopen the case meets the court-readiness bar. Case spend £0.00.

The earlier version of this report summarised 14–20 October and overlapped HR-01 and HR-02. Items dated before 20 October now sit in those reports.

Work packages

Pending authorisation

None this period.

In execution

• Research cycles 15–18 (20 Oct): the 1988 Llandough listing resurvey was routine and village-wide; Welsh Government request 26-0010 found no files (EV-0244); law of the 1983 first registration, catalogue-level finds only. Lead: the farm went in on Form 1E (1982) and the farmhouse on Form 1C (Co.) (1983); practice-book snippets only. Form 1C (Co.) was also the normal form for any company applying in its own name.
• HM Land Registry title trace: 22 later titles traced off the WA231076 plan.
• Heritage and diaspora outreach: 48 drafts written, 20 in Gmail awaiting the Executive.

Completed in the period

None this period.

Products completed in the period

• Issue Report I-032 (identity of “Mary Buckler” in 1974–1983 records), raised 20 Oct.
• Two-Marys name timeline built from the GRO indexes, the 1987 judgment and the family-held 1974 letters; name standard applied on this site.
• Correction note to the Llandough Community Council clerk sent 20 Oct, 14:29, with the Executive’s approval.
• Autonomy mandate issued 20 Oct, 14:37; programme daily log, lessons, issue and risk registers set up.

Products planned but not started or completed in the period

• Nancy’s note card and village sketch (Glamorgan Archives D/D XJF 64/30–31) found in the archive-visit photos; held back from publication under the Archives’ private-photography undertaking.

Corrective actions taken during the period

• Williams parcel plan: the “1877” date and source were not supported by any record; caption corrected on every site (date and origin unknown; family heirloom collection, disclosed 2026; 1877 link SOURCE PENDING).
• From 20 Oct, emails are drafts only and the Executive sends them.
• Triple-check rule in force from 20 Oct.

Work packages (to be authorised, in execution, to be completed)

• Research cycles every 6 hours; reopening-grounds loop every 4 hours; first weekly retrospective in the week of 26 Oct.

Products to be completed in the next period

• 22 Oct, 19:00: Llandough Community Council meeting, Item 10 (remote).
• By 28 Oct: HM Land Registry subject access reply; read item 11 against I-032 and ground R3.

Corrective actions to be completed during the next period

• 6 Nov: exception check if the HM Land Registry copies have not arrived; ICR complaint by 13 Nov (hard deadline about 25 Nov).

Raised

None this period.

Approved or rejected

None this period.

Pending

• CH-009 footer policy.
• CH-011 WordPress plan.

• I-032 identity of “Mary Buckler” in 1974–1983 records (new, open). Open records: the letter image; the 1940 daughter’s marital status in 1974; the 11 December 1962 order; the 29 March 1961 deed on the WA231076 file; item 11 of the HM Land Registry subject access request (Form 1C declaration), due 28 Oct.
• Archive-visit photos cannot be published without the Glamorgan Archivist’s written authority.
• I-025 Cadw refusal; I-026 records destroyed (review by 14 Dec); R-008 limitation.
• Prospective grounds to reopen the 1987 judgment: 28 experiments to 20 Oct; top grounds R1, R3 and R2 at 8 points short; none meets the court-readiness bar (every Takhar limb at 4 or more). Detail: reopening grounds assessment.
• Decisions requested from the Executive: approve and send the Gmail drafts (outreach, Welsh Government subject access request, National Library of Wales enquiry); whether to ask the Glamorgan Archivist for written permission for the note card and sketch (draft ready).

• PL-10 to PL-18: retries after a failed write; price copy; archive-visit photos; dates taken from file names; per-visit database scans; rate limiting; hosted-wiki styling; merge markers; catalogue labels as leads.