Reporting on Section 6 Community and Town Councils
- Juliet Sidney
- Dec 17, 2025
- 1 min read
Updated: Dec 19, 2025
Introduction and Context
Sully & Lavernock Community Council is semi-rural and covers two wards that contain 2570 residential properties. There are plans for further housing, a solar farm and active travel route.
The council has set a precept of £99400.00 for the financial year 2026/2027. The Community Council currently has nine Councillors and employs a clerk and cleaner on a part time basis. As part of the Vale of Glamorgan review of Town and Community Council Boundaries it is anticipated that the number of residential properties will change, with the loss of one Councillor.
The community Council manage Jubilee Hall, the Sports Pavilion and the community fields at Burnham Avenue. There is a small children’s play area, football pitch and cricket pitch at the community field along with a bowling green. It is anticipated that all will be subject of a Community Asset Transfer in the near future. Lavernock Point SSSI, currently managed by WTSWW, will remain in the Council area.
Sully is a coastal village half way between Barry and Penarth on the B4267 situated less than five miles from Cardiff. Sully Island has evidence of an Iron-Age fort and the village is thought to go back to Roman and Saxon times. Certainly the village came to the fore, when Reginald De Sully, who came over with William the Conqueror and was one of the twelve knights of Glamorgan, built a castle to guard the tidal estuary between Sully and what is now Barry. The village church is dedicated to St John the Baptist and is over 900 hundred years old.
