Highlight Report HR-04

21 October 2026

21 October 2026 (to 18:30)

AMBER On time. 23 replies sent to public bodies in their own threads; the 1936 Llwyn-yr-eryr auction placed in Llandough-juxta-Penarth; the 1923 peace petition filed as EV-0294. HM Land Registry copies and subject access reply still outstanding. Case spend £0.00.

Work packages

Pending authorisation

None this period.

In execution

• Reply sprint (Executive’s authority to send, 15:31): 23 replies sent today, each in its original thread; none bounced. About 155 threads from before June not yet checked.
• Nomenclature: 25 concepts and 147 record names, each with its source and date.
• Website-change tracking for institutions’ pages: 68 pages kept as plainly about the farm and Llandough, 87 kept as possibly relevant, 76 set aside (reversible).

Completed in the period

None this period.

Products completed in the period

• Glamorgan Archives DSA/14/91 research: the 14 May 1936 auction was of Llwyn-yr-eryr, Llandough, Penarth (one lot, leasehold, about 4¾ acres); withdrawn, the reserve not reached (Western Mail, 15 May 1936); failed again in October 1936; seller Charles St David Spencer.
• EV-0294: Welsh Women’s Peace Petition 1923, Llandough sheet (National Library of Wales); Esther Williams is the 8th signature on page 1 with the address “Llandough”. That she was the mother of Mary (Nancy) Williams, formerly Buckler, is believed by the family; the 1911/1921 census or the 1913 birth entry would confirm it.
• Replies on the three PDF answers: South Wales Police FOI 1040/26 (internal review requested, due 18 Nov); ICO IC-546505-W6P0 (in-remit routes asked about); Cadw ATISN 27589 (already challenged on 19 Oct; no reply needed).
• Overdue chase: Vale FOI 00211483 (due 16 Oct): ICO referral if nothing by 4 Nov.
• South Wales Police subject access request: the 30 Sep clarification question answered; due 29 Oct.

Products planned but not started or completed in the period

• Cardiff and Vale Health Board deceased-records application form (sent 21 Aug): needs the applicant’s own signature.

Corrective actions taken during the period

• Two sent replies were worded more firmly than the record supports (a booked archive visit; the stage of the HM Land Registry complaints review); in-thread corrections offered to the Executive.

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

• Remaining reply sprint threads (before June).
• Nightly drafts run at 05:30.

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.
• 29 Oct: South Wales Police subject access reply due.

Corrective actions to be completed during the next period

• In-thread corrections to the two loosely worded replies, if the Executive agrees.

Raised

None this period.

Approved or rejected

None this period.

Pending

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

• Against the case: if the archive’s note is right, the 5.3-acre field in the 1939 letting (DBDT/123/7) was part of Llwyn-yr-eryr in 1936, not Great House Farm, so that letting cannot mark out the farm. Only DSA/14/91 itself or the auctioneer’s sale book DSA/8/32 can show the boundary (paid copy or visit).
• Cadw wrote at 15:39 that further farm emails “will be filed but not answered” without new evidence; reply sent copying Welsh Government Complaints, asking whether this is the final response.
• South Wales Police FOI 1189/26: the 28 Sep preservation notice is not an FOI request; written hold asked for.
• National Library images on EV-0294 are “copyright undetermined”: not for paid products.
• 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.

No lessons report this period.