Splott (electoral ward) Liberal Democrats. In May 2012 all three seats were won by a new team of Labour councillors, after a bitter campaign where the Liberal Democrats making a complaint to the police that Labour candidate, Luke Holland, had given a misleading address on his notice of poll. Splott councillor Huw Thomas became leader of the Labour-controlled Cardiff Council in May 2017. Lord Jack Brooks, who became leader of South Glamorgan County Council, was a Splott councillor during the 80s and 90s. Splott (electoral ward) Splott is the name of an electoral ward in the south of Cardiff, capital city of Wales.
Fairwater, Cardiff and numerous playing fields. Fairwater is the historic name of one of the canons' stalls at nearby Llandaff Cathedral. Fairwater has two secondary schools. The larger of the two, with over a thousand pupils, is the Welsh-medium Ysgol Gyfun Gymraeg Plasmawr. The other is Cantonian High School, which has nearly 700 pupils. The building in which Plasmawr stands was originally opened in 1959 as Waterhall Secondary Modern School. Pupils at the school included Martyn Woodroffe an Olympic swimming Silver Medalist in 1968 Summer Olympics in Mexico. It is on the grounds of old Cantonian lower school, but in recent times