[1] The development was funded by the coal industry magnate and ship owner John Cory.
[2] The houses were available on leases of 99 or 999 years at a cost which was a quarter of similarly developed land in the city of Cardiff, some 7 miles away.
The original plan involved the creation of a church with hundreds of houses and several public buildings on a 300-acre site.
[1] The site was intended to be laid out over "a grand amphitheatre of concentric roads with radial avenues".
[7] The Welshman wrote in October 1909 that "The problem of housing must be solved in the suburbs of our towns rather than in the centres" and that the creation of Glyn Cory was "a step towards the solving of this problem" and arose "from a desire on the part of the owner and his family to make healthy housing conditions possible by providing an example of town planning on a rural area which is still unspoiled by the encroachment of ordinary suburban development".