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 ID | EV-0270 |
|---|---|
| Title | 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) |
| Date of document | October 1988 – 1995 |
| Type | newspaper reports (search snippets) and Hansard |
| Evidence label | SNIPPETS ONLY (articles not opened) + Hansard (read) |
| Repository / reference | South Wales Echo 5 Apr 1988 p.6; 7 Oct 1988 p.1; 1 Nov 1988 p.2; 11 Nov 1988 p.19; Daily Express 6 Oct 1988 p.41; South Wales Echo 9 Nov 1989 p.9; 26 Jun 1990 p.3; 11 Sep 1990 p.9; 20 Apr 1992 p.5; 18 Feb 1993 p.13; 14 Jul 1993 p.15; 31 Mar 1994; 1 Aug 1994 p.14; 7 Nov 1994 p.11; 21 Jun 1995 p.19; Cardiff Post 6 Jul 1995 p.5 (British Newspaper Archive search results); Hansard written answer, 7 Feb 1990, cols 663–4 |
| Status | SOURCE PENDING (snippets only; full articles not read) |
| Provenance | British Newspaper Archive search snippets, 18–20 Oct 2026; Hansard read in full. |
| Related evidence | EV-0220 · EV-0217 · EV-0218 · EV-0269 |
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Quotation (verbatim): “The woodland was sold to the LAW by BP Pension Fund which owned it until 1988” (SWE 26 Jun 1990). Seven woods “in Llandough and Leckwith from the Land Authority for Wales”: Reservoir Wood (Llandough), Coed Sion Hywel, Coed Cwm Cydfin, Coed Creigiaidd, Coed y Stofer, Factory Wood, West Hill Wood (SWE 11 Sep 1990). LAW advertised “Lewis Road Llandough … acres of Prime Residential Building Land For Sale by Private Treaty” (SWE 9 Nov 1989; OCR reads “488”, probably 4.88: UNCONFIRMED). 127 acres “between Leckwith Hill [and] Llandough including 18 acres of special scientific interest” to the county council (SWE 7 Nov 1994).
Fits with: Traces the WGR/BP estate residue around the farm after the 1987 judgment: BP Pension Fund → Intercontinental (Oct 1988) → LAW (Nov 1988) → South Glamorgan CC (1994–95). LAW also held Ynyston Farm, Leckwith, a former WGR farm let to W. S. Coles from 1934 (DBDT121/2). A LAW abstract of title would recite WGR’s root.
Cuts against: The 1988 buyer was a private joint venture (Helical Bar and Richard Morgan & Co) chosen by open tender from about 800 parties, which cuts against reading the sale as a concealed government transfer. The Great House Farm site itself stayed with BP Properties Ltd. LAW spent £9.5m on land across all of Wales in 1988–89, so Llandough was ordinary business. The press is inconsistent on whether the 1994–95 transfer was a gift or a sale. Snippets may splice neighbouring columns.
Notes: Search snippets only; the articles need reading in full before any figure is relied on.
Our case, prospective. Not a finding of any court. Catalogued by Tab (for Sion Buckler), 20 Oct 2026, from research of 16–20 Oct 2026 (free online sources only).
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