Decision details

P-04-664 Develop Tynton Farm as a Visitor and Information Centre

Decision Maker: Petitions Committee - Fifth Senedd, Petitions Committee - Fourth Assembly

Status: For consideration

Is Key decision?: Yes

Purpose:

This petition was submitted by Martyn Hooper having collected 112 signatures

 

Text of the Petition

We call on the Welsh government to acknowledge the important contribution of Dr Richard Price not only to the eighteenth century Enlightenment, but also to the making of the modern world that we live in today, and develop his birthplace and childhood home into a visitor information centre where people of all nationalities and ages can discover how his significant contributions to theology, mathematics and philosophy have shaped the modern world.

 

Additional Information

Tynton Farm in Llangeinor, the birthplace and childhood home of Dr Richard Price is for sale. Once derelict, the farm has been sensitively restored and almost all of the original features have been preserved. The Richard Price Society is aware that the house attracts visitors from all corners of the globe and this is attested by the previous owner's Visitors Book that was signed by visitors to the farm. The position of the farm and its provenance would make it an ideal learning centre where people can find out just what an important person he was and remains. This is an opportunity to buy the property at market value and help celebrate the achievements of Wales' intellectual giant and apostle of liberty.

 

Assembly Constituency and Region

        Ogmore

        South Wales West

 

Decisions:

The Committee considered correspondence on the petition and, given the petitioner’s view that the opportunity to achieve the aims of the petition has now been lost, agreed to close the petition and thank the petitioner for engaging in the petitions process.

 

 

 

Publication date: 08/11/2016

Date of decision: 01/11/2016

Decided at meeting: 01/11/2016 - Petitions Committee - Fifth Senedd

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