BP Properties Ltd

Woodland title history: BP to Ideal Homes.

Chain as reported in the woodland assessment.

Sale of the merged title (house and fields) for housing.

The 1994 excavation at Great House Farm was carried out on behalf of Ideal Homes Wales, which built Church View Close.

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… Lewis Road Llandough … acres of Prime Residential Building Land For Sale by Private Treaty …

Plots at Llandough bought, from Lavernock to Leckwith

Board minutes and papers of the Land Authority for Wales, 1988–1990 (The National Archives WA 9/49 and related files), cover the November 1988 purchase of sites from Lavernock to Leckwith including plots at Llandough. The South Wales Echo of 26 June 1990: “The woodland was sold to the LAW by BP Pension Fund which owned it until 1988”.

BP signal Welsh sales

… ripe for residential development …

Possession taken under the order upheld by the Court of Appeal on 31 Jul 1987.

Bailiffs and police on 29 April 1988; the farmhouse demolished from about 4am on 6 December 1988.

Court of Appeal shared a judgment: BP Properties Ltd v Buckler

BP Properties Ltd v Buckler: possession of the farmhouse and garden. The appeal was limited to the farmhouse and garden.

HM Land Registry updated title WA231076

WA240304 (the house) merged into WA231076 (the fields) while the appeal was running. Both titles already stood in BP Properties’ name, so no land changed hands.

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… the High Court in Cardiff yesterday Mr [Justice] Hollis gave Mr Bill Buckler[’s] family six [weeks] to vacate Great [House] Farm Llandough after ruling [a] 10-acre block [belonged] to British Petroleum Properties Ltd … defiant Mr Buckler now to take case to the Court of Appeal …

Judgment of Hollis J, Queen’s Bench Division, Cardiff

The Court of Appeal recites the judgment of Hollis J in the possession action begun by writ on 22 May 1984, and gave its own judgment in BP Properties Ltd v Buckler [1987] EWCA Civ 2 the following year.

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First registration of the house, title WA240304, to BP Properties Ltd (Form 1C application, 23 Feb 1983).

Mary was living in the house and died on 26 Mar 1983, while the application was still being examined.

BP Properties Ltd applies to register title WA231076 (the farm).

The application date is in HM Land Registry’s file schedule.

Residential ground rents in South Wales sold to Cefn Estates

The Great House Farm land is not part of the sale.

Compulsory registration of title begins in the Vale of Glamorgan

From a sale of land in the Vale of Glamorgan must be registered at HM Land Registry (SI 1975/160). The 1969 and May 1975 conveyances come before this date; the November 1982 sale of the fields comes after it.

Abstract of title for BP Pension Trust

An abstract of title is prepared for BP Pension Trust. HM Land Registry wrote on 19 April 2026 that an abstract “dated 1971 was lodged with the application for first registration” of WA231076, and that for WA240304 “we had sight of a copy of a 1971 abstract of title”. It is not listed among the surviving file items.

Conveyance with plan, Western Ground Rents to BP Pension Trust Ltd

The conveyance and its plan (EV-0043) have not been obtained: what BP took, and the title recited, are not yet known.

An agreed bid for the whole of Western Ground Rents Ltd

The sale of the farm to BP Pension Trust follows on 31 December 1969.