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Paywalls to Disclosure
As at 12 October 2026. This page records every documented incident in which a public body required, or explicitly offered, payment as a condition of disclosing records, copies or search results relevant to Great House Farm / Tŷ Mawr. Cost-limit refusals under FOIA section 12 (where the authority simply refuses rather than charges) are listed only where the reply also offered a paid route or quoted a fee. Pure section-12 refusals without a paid alternative are excluded.
1. Scatter of paywall incidents
Simple timeline scatter of known paywall or chargeable-disclosure events. Date runs left → right; institutions are stacked vertically. Points expand as further incidents are catalogued.
Glamorgan Archives copy/search fees HMLR official copies (£14) RCAHMW chargeable TNA paid research
2. Shopping list (collapsed)
Expand each item for the short description, fee type, amount where known, and status. This is the working “shopping list” of paywalls encountered while recovering the documentary record.
HM Land Registry — official copies of title register and title plan — 18–19 September 2026
Institution: HM Land Registry (GOV.UK “Search for land and property information” service)
What was obtained: Title register and title plan downloads for titles relevant to Great House Farm / Church View Close / woodland (including WA series titles).
Paywall: Standard statutory fee of £14.00 per official copy (title register + title plan). Confirmed by GOV.UK Pay receipts of 18 and 19 September 2026 (references 1000010749920, 1000010752498, 1000010752707).
Status: Paid. Official copies obtained and held by the family.
Glamorgan Archives — digital copying service quote for ACA/8/2 — 7 September 2026 (ref 2026–3941)
Institution: Glamorgan Archives (Cardiff Council)
What was requested: Digital copy of Funds ledger ACA/8/2 (1966–1978).
Paywall: Standard copying tariff quoted: single image £15.60; subsequent images £4.80; multiple images from multiple documents £60 per hour. For this item: 106 pages / 53 images = £60 (one hour).
Status: Quote issued; payment form attached. Not yet commissioned as at 12 Oct 2026 (family reply noted the quote and deferred).
Glamorgan Archives — multiple research/copy quotes in detailed reply — 24 September 2026 (ref 2026/4097)
Institution: Glamorgan Archives
What was offered (paid routes):
- Rate-book search (UC/73/1–5 etc.) for ownership/tenancy evidence around 1880: £50 including copies of relevant entries.
- Planning Committee minutes/reports search (DCVG/C/4/36/76-77, /94 etc.) for 89/01396/OUT and 92/00671/RES: £50 including copies.
- DB/E/1–2 Stewart survey / terrier pages for Ty Mawr: two images = £17.
- UDPE/S/1/68 plans: five images = £20.
- D696 Western Ground Rents plans/rentals search: £50.
Prices stated without VAT because of the enquirer’s location in Patagonia. Digital photography order form supplied.
Status: Quotes issued. None of these specific paid searches commissioned as at 12 Oct 2026.
RCAHMW — chargeable aerial-photograph searches & further queries — 29 September 2026 (R01 / RC26-0375)
Institution: Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Wales (RCAHMW)
What was stated: Aerial-photograph searches would be chargeable; further queries would be handled as public enquiries and may be charged. Price list (LES16 Rhestr Brisiau 2026) and order form attached to the reply.
Paywall type: Standard commercial search/reproduction fees for non-core enquiries.
Status: Noted; no paid search placed as at 12 Oct 2026. Supporting price list published on the R01 evidence page.
TNA — Valuation Office Survey map IR 131/4/96 (OS Glamorgan XLVII.6) — 12 October 2026
Institution: The National Archives (FOI Centre)
What was requested: Location-only FOI for the Valuation Office Survey 1910 map covering Great House Farm / Llandough-juxta-Penarth (sheet Glamorgan XLVII.6).
Paywall: TNA identified the piece (IR 131/4/96) but stated that access options are: (1) travel to Kew and examine the map in person, (2) request a paid search by TNA staff, or (3) hire an independent researcher. Explicit reference to FOIA section 9 fees and the Public Records Act fees regulations.
Note: The ordinary (non-annotated) OS 25-inch sheets for the same area are free on the National Library of Scotland. This paywall applies only to the Valuation Office annotated version.
Status: Open — unpaid. No paid search commissioned as at 12 Oct 2026.
(Placeholder) Future paywall incidents
Additional items will be added here as they arise (further HMLR official copies, Cadw/ATISN commercial reproduction, NLW copying fees, Companies House bulk data, ITV archive licence fees, etc.). Each entry will carry the same short description, fee type, status, and link to the supporting email catalogue page.
3. Supporting evidence — email catalogue pages & receipts
Full correspondence threads, attachments and payment receipts live on the individual FOI Reply Register / evidence pages or in the family mailbox. Links below point to the published catalogue entries where they exist.
- HM Land Registry official copies (18–19 Sep 2026) — GOV.UK Pay receipts for £14 title register + title plan downloads (refs 1000010749920, 1000010752498, 1000010752707). Held in family mailbox; not yet transcribed to a dedicated GHF-E106-Rxx page.
- Glamorgan Archives copying quote (7 Sep 2026, 2026–3941) and detailed research/copy quotes (24 Sep 2026, 2026/4097) — correspondence held in family mailbox and partially reflected in existing Glamorgan Archives FOI-register entries; full thread to be catalogued under the FOI Reply Register.
- RCAHMW RC26-0375 (29 Sep 2026) — GHF-E106-R01 — Royal Commission (RCAHMW) reply RC26-0375, 29 September 2026 (includes the price list and order form attachments).
- TNA Valuation Office map (12 Oct 2026) — FOI request and reply of 10–12 October 2026 not yet transcribed onto a dedicated GHF-E106-Rxx page. Primary source is the 12 October FOI reply itself (CAS reference in the message).
This page is a living register. New paywall incidents will be added with the same three-part structure (scatter update, shopping-list item, evidence link). The aim is complete coverage of every institutional solicitation that required or offered payment for disclosure, copies or search results relating to Great House Farm.
Change history is maintained on the Master Change Log; no separate page-local version footer is maintained.