EV-0093 — Estates Gazette: “BP signal Welsh sales” (Ropemaker Properties; Debenham Tewson as agents)
| EV ID | EV-0093 |
|---|---|
| Title | Estates Gazette: “BP signal Welsh sales” (Ropemaker Properties; Debenham Tewson as agents) |
| Date of document | 9 July 1988 |
| Type | press |
| Evidence label | PRESS REPORT |
| Repository / reference | Estates Gazette, 9 July 1988, online article. |
| Status | READ (public online copy, not yet mirrored on the wiki) — open |
| Provenance | Source: Estates Gazette, 9 July 1988, online article. |
| Claims that rely on this | None linked yet |
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Proves: Reports BP disposing of Welsh property interests, naming Ropemaker Properties and Debenham Tewson & Chinnocks as agents, describing the 1969 deal as purchase of the WGR company.
Does not prove: Does not mention Great House Farm specifically; Not evidence of fraud.
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 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 · EV-0093 (this page) · 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)
DISCARDED THEORY · S-02DISCARDED (cuts against): the theory that the 1988 sale was pre-arranged before the 1987 judgment. Reason: the Cardiff buyer had its own bank finance from 13 Apr 1987 for something before the BP tender; its BP purchase rests on a contract of 23 Sep 1988 with loans of 28 Oct 1988, after an open tender of about 800 parties. The Dec 1986 charge by BP Properties to the Intercontinental group shows a commercial relationship, not a dealing with Llandough (logged as context).
Rests on: EV-0270 · EV-0251 · research log E127, E129
Would be confirmed by: Would be revived by any 1986–87 document naming BP land in the buyer's financing.
Would be refuted by: Refuted on the company filings read.
Status: Discarded
Cited on
15 pages link here.
- EV-0052 — Conveyance and plan, BP Pension Trust to BP Properties (farmhouse and garden)
- 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-0251 — Companies House register: BP Properties Limited, company number 00699446, incorporated 27 July 1961, still active
- 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
- 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
- El caso de la familia · Argentina
- GHF-E138 — 23 May 1975 BP Pension Trust to BP Properties conveyance and plan (WA240304 items 1, 12, 13)
- Master Timeline