The Reservoir Action Group (RAG) was formed by local residents, in December 2001, to counter a planning application by Western Power Distribution to drain Llanishen Reservoir and build a housing estate there. Ceri Davies was on the committee of RAG from the outset and was Vice Chair of the group from 2013 to 2023. As a retired Senior Planning Officer, Ceri headed up the group’s Planning Sub-Committee. 

In this interview:0:30 Ceri describes how he first got involved with the reservoir campaign.3:12 He describes some of the other people involved in the Planning Sub-committee of RAG.4:13 Ceri describes some of Cardiff’s planning policies that were relevant to the plans for the reservoir and the arguments that RAG adopted to counter the planning application.6:00 Touches on the debate about the exact nature of the ’Nant Fawr River Corridor’ and the workings of the UK planning system.8:40 Ceri explains how he ended up campaigning for 22 years.