EV-0052 — Conveyance and plan, BP Pension Trust to BP Properties (farmhouse and garden)
| EV ID | EV-0052 |
|---|---|
| Title | Conveyance and plan, BP Pension Trust to BP Properties (farmhouse and garden) |
| Date of document | 23 May 1975 (item 13 plan is described as dated 23 February 1975) |
| Type | deed |
| Evidence label | PRIMARY DOCUMENT — NOT PUBLISHED HERE |
| Repository / reference | HM Land Registry, title WA240304 (items 1, 12, 13) |
| Status | PENDING — Held by HM Land Registry under title WA240304, items 1, 12 and 13. Can be ordered on form OC2. No cost stated. |
| Provenance | No copy held or linked. Existence known from Court of Appeal’s record of the May 1975 conveyance and HMLR’s title history showing WA240304 registered on it. |
| Wiki catalogue page | GHF-E138 |
| Claims that rely on this | 1983 First Registration: Parcel A Title Basis and Alleged HMLR Mistake, BP Properties Ltd and BP Pension Trust — Forensic Assessment, Court of Appeal — Forensic Assessment, HM Land Registry — Forensic Assessment |
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Proves: Not held, so nothing yet. Reported: court of Appeal records farmhouse and garden conveyed BP Pension Trust to BP Properties, May 1975. HMLR history shows title WA240304 registered on this conveyance.
Does not prove: Does not establish whether the plan covers only the farmhouse and garden or more land, nor whether item 13 is dated 23 February or 23 May 1975. No transcription or deed wording seen.
Interpretation: working hypotheses
Working hypotheses, kept apart from the record above. The record text on this page is unchanged. None of these is a finding: each line is labelled as inference, theory, a reading that cuts against the case, or a discarded theory, and names the evidence it rests on and what would confirm or refute it, so the reader can test it. Updated 25 Oct 2026 (v2: ingredients wording).
The 1962 → 1974 → 1983 sequence
THEORY · I-01Working hypothesis on the sequence, set out as dated steps for the reader to test. 11 Dec 1962: possession order in Cardiff County Court (EV-0041); the 12-year period from that order ran to 11 Dec 1974. In the 1974 County Court action she pleaded that the claim was barred (EV-0049). 17–19 Sep 1974: BP Pension Trust sought and obtained leave to enforce the 1962 order (EV-0080). 31 Oct 1974: letters permitting her to stay rent-free for life (EV-0050); the Court of Appeal later held that from then on her possession was by licence and no longer adverse (EV-0080). 30 Nov 1982 and 23 Feb 1983: first-registration applications for the fields and for the farmhouse (EV-0059, EV-0065). The hypothesis is that these steps were connected, each taking occupation the family treated as ownership closer to a registered title. No document read so far shows them planned together; W-04 and the discarded entries below set out readings that cut against it.
Rests on: EV-0041 · EV-0049 · EV-0050 · EV-0080 · EV-0059 · EV-0065
Would be confirmed by: The 1974 County Court file and leave application (HMCTS reply due 2 Nov 2026) and the 1983 application papers (HM Land Registry subject access request, due 28 Oct 2026) showing the steps were planned as one course of action.
Would be refuted by: Records showing each step was a separate routine act with its own cause (for example, the 1982 internal BP conveyance arising from a group restructuring unrelated to the farm).
Status: Open
Three versions of Parcel A
CUTS AGAINST THE CASE · P-03Cuts against A1 as a separate act: the woodland title came through BP's own chain (the 23 May 1975 conveyance passed the farmhouse plot and other land, including woodland north-east of Leckwith Road; BP's retained land in 1989; Forest of Cardiff from 25 Nov 1994). On this record A1 is a continuation of A2, not an independent creation.
Rests on: EV-0052 (this page) · EV-0136 · EV-0166 · EV-0169 · research log E35, E99
Would be confirmed by: A 1994 transfer plan taking in house-parcel land that was never in the 1975 conveyance.
Would be refuted by: The 1975 and 1994 plans matching (already indicated on the register views).
Status: Open (cuts against)
The Intercontinental sale motive
INFERENCE · S-01Records on the land's later use, set side by side. The 23 May 1975 conveyance reserved 80-year rights to build roads and sewers across the farmhouse plot "to serve any development of the Retained Land" (EV-0052). In Dec 1986 BP Properties granted a charge to Intercontinental Land & Development Co Ltd (EV-0251); S-02 records it as a commercial relationship, not a dealing with Llandough. In Oct 1988 the BP Pension Fund sold about 1,300 acres in South Wales to Intercontinental Land & Development (Cardiff) Ltd for £29,375,400 after a tender (EV-0093, EV-0270, record, press and company filings). Working hypothesis: a registered title made the land easier to sell for development. Nothing read so far ties the 1982–83 filings to that sale, and S-02 sets out why a pre-arranged sale was discarded.
Rests on: EV-0052 (this page) · EV-0093 · EV-0269 · EV-0270 · EV-0251 · research log E94, E127
Would be confirmed by: The Land Authority for Wales board papers (TNA WA 9/49) or the 1988 sale schedule showing Great House Farm in the package and reliance on the 1983 title.
Would be refuted by: A sale schedule excluding the farm, or evidence that the sale was conceived only after the 31 Jul 1987 judgment.
Status: Open (inference only)
The 1974 licence letters
THEORY · L-01Ground R1: the Court of Appeal answered the "wrong company" argument only from the letters' own words that BP Properties Ltd "had agreed to buy". Completion came on 23 May 1975, and HM Land Registry's schedule lists a plan to the sale dated 23 Feb 1975, almost four months after the letters. Working hypothesis: if no binding agreement existed on 31 Oct 1974, BP Properties had nothing to licence.
Rests on: EV-0050 · EV-0052 (this page) · EV-0080 · EV-0161 · ground R1
Would be confirmed by: BP Archive or Registry papers showing no agreement before Feb–May 1975.
Would be refuted by: A dated contract or board minute before 31 Oct 1974. Cuts against: an unwritten agreement is not void (E28); a press snippet suggests the two companies shared an officer in 1972, so a group decision recorded only internally is plausible (E124, not yet confirmed); the 23 Feb 1975 date may be a clerical carry-over in the Registry's letter (E81).
Status: Open (ground R1, scores a1 b3 c2 d1)
THEORY · L-03Ground R10: the letters gave the sale to BP Properties as "the only way" to "safeguard your future occupation of Great House Farm", yet the 23 May 1975 conveyance kept the rest of the farm as the Trust's "Retained Land" until 19 Nov 1982 and reserved 80-year road and sewer rights across the farmhouse plot for its development. Working hypothesis: a gap between the stated purpose and the deed.
Rests on: EV-0050 · EV-0052 (this page) · EV-0169 · ground R10; research log E94, E99
Would be confirmed by: BP papers showing the 1975 deed was drafted for development of the retained land.
Would be refuted by: BP papers showing the reservations were standard form with no development plan.
Status: Open (ground R10, scores a2 b1 c1 d1)
Title chain and registration
DISCARDED THEORY · R-06DISCARDED: the theory that the 23 May 1975 conveyance was void for late registration under LRA 1925 s.123. Reason: compulsory registration began in this part of the Vale on 1 Dec 1975, after the conveyance, so the 1983 application on Form 1C was voluntary and fits the form used.
Rests on: EV-0052 (this page) · EV-0265 · research log E55
Would be confirmed by: Would be revived by an earlier compulsory-area order covering Llandough.
Would be refuted by: Refuted by the published compulsory-registration dates.
Status: Discarded
Cited on
43 pages link here.
- EV-0050 — Licence letters from BP Pension Trust and BP Properties to Mrs Buckler (Mrs Williams)
- EV-0080 — Court of Appeal judgment: BP Properties Ltd v Buckler [1987] EWCA Civ 2
- EV-0093 — Estates Gazette: “BP signal Welsh sales” (Ropemaker Properties; Debenham Tewson as agents)
- EV-0123 — Outline Planning Application (Form D): Leckwith Road, Llandough Residential Development
- EV-0124 — Outline planning permission 89/01396/OUT – residential development, Great House Farm, Leckwith Road
- EV-0136 — Transfer of the woodland to Forest of Cardiff (title WA735527), with plan
- EV-0139 — Transfer, Forest of Cardiff to Goldsworthy Homes, excision from title WA735527
- EV-0161 — HM Land Registry Schedule of First-Registration Documents, WA231076 and WA240304
- EV-0166 — HM Land Registry title plan for WA735527 (current copy)
- EV-0169 — HM Land Registry title register for WA735527, September 2026 copy
- EV-0251 — Companies House register: BP Properties Limited, company number 00699446, incorporated 27 July 1961, still active
- EV-0265 — Registration background: compulsory registration of title began in the Vale of Glamorgan on 1 December 1975 (SI 1975/160); the solicitor’s certificate on first registration (LRR 1925 r.29; 1989 text); the HMLR “about to be registered” Gazette notices ran only to about May 1975
- EV-0269 — TNA WA 9/49 (and WA 9/48, 9/50, 9/54–55, 9/59–63): Land Authority for Wales Board minutes and papers, 1988–1990, covering the November 1988 purchase of sites from Lavernock to Leckwith including plots at Llandough (catalogue entries)
- EV-0270 — Press set, 1988–1995: BP Pension Fund sold about 1,300 acres of Welsh land to Intercontinental Land & Development (Cardiff) Ltd for £29,375,400 (Oct 1988); the Land Authority for Wales bought plots at Llandough (Nov 1988), later passing Leckwith/Llandough woods to South Glamorgan County Council (1994–95)
- EV-0273 — South Wales Echo, 23 February 1990, p.1: “company chiefs are bidding [to] build homes” on the Great House Farm land; Llandough Community Council made no objection but wanted the land registered as village green (snippet)
- EV-0289 — SNIPPETS ONLY: BP Pension Trust in South Wales, 1981–83: sale of its residential ground rents (Feb 1981) and a plan to build a house at Penlan Road, Llandough (South Wales Echo, 29 Jul 1983)
- Evidence Register
- Pending Evidence
- Wayback artifact index
- 1000 Cuts · a dated chronology of the Williams family at Great House Farm, 1870s–1988
- 1000 Cuts: a dated chronology of the Williams family at Great House Farm (1870s–1988) — Great House Farm Wiki
- 1983 First Registration: Parcel A Title Basis and Open Question of an HMLR Mistake
- BP Properties Ltd and BP Pension Trust
- Claim: Parcel A and Parcel B had distinct histories; the 1987 amalgamation requires testing
- Claim: Parcel A and Parcel B had distinct histories; the 1987 amalgamation requires testing
- Counter-Evidence & Disconfirmation
- El caso de la familia · Argentina
- EV-0052 — Conveyance and plan, BP Pension Trust to BP Properties (farmhouse and garden)
- Forensic Master Chronology — Authoritative Corrected Version (6 October 2026)
- GHF-E136 — 31 October 1974 licence letters (BP Pension Trust and BP Properties)
- GHF-E138 — 23 May 1975 BP Pension Trust to BP Properties conveyance and plan (WA240304 items 1, 12, 13)
- GHF-E141 — 31 July 1987 Court of Appeal judgment: BP Properties Ltd v Buckler [1987] EWCA Civ 2
- GHF-E149 — 10 November 1994 transfer of the woodland to Forest of Cardiff (WA735527), with plan and consideration
- GHF-E150 — 2005 Forest of Cardiff to Goldsworthy Homes transfer and excision from WA735527
- GHF-E158 — HM Land Registry schedule of first-registration documents, WA231076 and WA240304, 30 July 2026
- GHF-E163 — WA735527 title register, September 2026
- GHF-E164 — WA735527 title plan, September 2026
- MR-0041 Conveyance and plan, BP Pension Trust to BP Properties (farmhouse and — Research Library
- The Two Parcels
- Three-part Parcel A: chronology, order scope and later title transfers
- Title chain · Tŷ Mawr
- Title chain · Tŷ Mawr
- Title chain · Tŷ Mawr