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<h2><b>SEBASTIAN SHAKESPEARE: Farmer digs in as 4th Earl of Plymouth
seeks to turf him off
estate</b></h2>
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To the neutral observer, it looks a rather uneven contest. In the
blue-blooded corner, lording it over 8,000 Shropshire acres from his
family seat, Oakly Park, is Ivor Windsor-Clive, 4th Earl of
Plymouth.<br><br>
And in the red dragon corner is one of the Earl’s tenants, Jenkin Rees,
who, for the past 56 years, has farmed 240 acres on the Windsor-Clives’
secondary estate to the west of Cardiff.<br><br>
Now, in a court judgment, Rees has been ordered to pay £10,000-a-month
towards £100,000 in legal costs incurred by the Earl as he’s battled to
gain control of Maes Y Llech Farm Rees’s home. It’s earmarked for
development as part of a massive new garden city, with 7,000 houses being
built over 20 years.<br><br>
Rees, 88, who lives at the farm with his wife Brenda, 85, and their son
Phillip, 60, declines to comment, but his solicitor, Peter Williams,
tells me that the family wants a longstanding agreement to be
honoured.<br><br>
<img src="cid:7.0.1.0.1.20210430003050.0684b260@cultureshop.org.uk.0" width=634 height=309 alt="Now, in a court judgment, Rees has been ordered to pay £10">
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Now, in a court judgment, Rees has been ordered to pay £10,000-a-month
towards £100,000 in legal costs incurred by the Earl as he’s battled to
gain control of Maes Y Llech Farm Rees’s home<br>
<img src="cid:7.0.1.0.1.20210430003050.0684b260@cultureshop.org.uk.1" width=634 height=423 alt="It¿s earmarked for development as part of a massive new ga">
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It’s earmarked for development as part of a massive new garden city, with
7,000 houses being built over 20 years<br><br>
‘Jenkin Rees had discussions with the late Earl’s agent going way back
into the 1960s,’ Williams explains. ‘Jenkin recognised that, one day,
there might be a desire to develop part of the farm but, if there was, he
would be paid “fair compensation” to enable him to locate the family farm
elsewhere.<br><br>
A spokesman for the Plymouth Estate acknowledges that ‘the ending of any
tenancy can be difficult, particularly when it involves a family home’.
He tells me: ‘This is why over the last five years the owners have
continually tried to engage Mr Rees and his family and repeatedly offered
financial compensation terms, which were well beyond the legal statutory
requirements.<br><br>
‘These have all been ignored or rejected by the Rees family.’<br><br>
But Williams retorts: ‘If Jenkin does not make the £10,000 payments, he’s
not allowed to continue his battle to save his home or get fair
compensation.’<br>
<img src="cid:7.0.1.0.1.20210430003050.0684b260@cultureshop.org.uk.2" width=634 height=896 alt="Rees, 88, who lives at the farm with his wife Brenda, 85, and t">
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Rees, 88, who lives at the farm with his wife Brenda, 85, and their son
Phillip, 60, declines to comment, but his solicitor, Peter Williams,
tells me that the family wants a longstanding agreement to be
honoured<br><br>
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