Land Registry Titles

Evidence: Register of title WA735527 (also catalogued as GHF-E026-02)

Evidence description: the schedule lists every document on the first-registration files: 30 for WA231076 and 13 for WA240304, available at £11 each on form OC2. The WA231076 file holds a conveyance of 23 February 1905, an agreement of 15 May 1924 and a deed of 29 March 1961. The 1905 Bute conveyance granted rights to Cardiff Corporation. The WA735527 register records that no copies of the 1905 plans were supplied on first registration. Copies of the 1924 agreement and 1961 deed can be ordered from HMLR.

Parcel unclearUnclear until the original is obtained and read. The Wiki’s current register-based interpretation is that the 1905 conveyance concerned rights over land Bute kept and may therefore relate to Parcel B; the deed, its plan and its legal scope have not been inspected, so this remains provisional rather than a parcel finding. The 15 May 1924 record is described on the woodland register as a Bute–Corbett drain agreement; whether it bears on Parcel A or on Mary’s 1928 is unresolved until the agreement and its plan are read. If its plan covers the blue (1975, farmhouse-strand) land, Bute was dealing with Parcel A land in 1924; if only the pink land, it is neutral. ^🕒

Evidence: HMLR registration history, 23 March 2026 (also catalogued as GHF-E026-06) · Schedule of documents, 30 July 2026 (also GHF-E026-07) · Register of title WA735527 (also GHF-E026-08)

Evidence description: both BP conveyances recite a conveyance of 31 December 1969 from Western Ground Rents to BP Pension Trust as their root of title. That 1969 conveyance is not in the schedule of documents on either file. The 23 May 1975 conveyance (BP Pension Trust to BP Properties) and its plan are on the WA240304 file; the 1987 judgment records that this was “the actual conveyance of the farmhouse and garden”. The WA240304 schedule also lists a “plan to conveyance dated 23 February 1975” (item 13), a date that differs from every other record and needs checking. The same 1975 conveyance is the source of the land tinted blue on the WA735527 register (Woodland).

The registration narrative describes these conveyances as relating to the farm as one holding; that is not proof that the Parcel A freehold was conveyed. WGR acquired Bute’s fields (Parcel B) in 1938 (1938 reversion), but no document on file shows how it or BP acquired the farmhouse parcel (Parcel A), and the 1969 root itself is missing. ^🕒

Evidence description: on 30 November 1982 Linklaters & Paines applied on form 1E to register BP Properties as owner of WA231076, relying on a conveyance of 19 November 1982 from BP Pension Trust and BP Trustees. On 23 February 1983 they applied on form 1C for WA240304, relying on the 1975 conveyance [PENDING: EV-0066; PENDING: EV-0063]. HMLR says a 1971 abstract of title was lodged, and that the solicitors certified they knew of no question or doubt affecting the title. Mary (Nancy) Williams died on 26 March 1983; the WA240304 file holds Linklaters/HMLR correspondence dated 8 and 12 April 1983. A request to amalgamate the two titles was made on 2 February 1987 [PENDING: EV-0078].

The 1982/83 first registration merged both parcels into one estate and the 1987 amalgamation completed it. Parcel B had a paper root through Bute’s retained land and WGR; for Parcel A the first-registration material does not identify any historic conveyance supplying the root, and the later possession, tenancy-offer and licence records are context, not substitutes for it. The underlying deeds, plans, application papers and requisitions will show how the registered extent was established. WA240304 was registered on the conveyance the 1987 judgment ties to the farmhouse and garden; its exact extent will be confirmed by its old title plan.

Procedural failures the family has raised (1982–1987):

Evidence: Register of title WA231076 (also catalogued as GHF-E026-17) · HMLR registration history, 23 March 2026 (also GHF-E026-20)

Evidence description:

• 10 Oct 1989 — BP transfers part (WA513690, Oakview) to private buyers, with fencing covenants.
• 3 Dec 1993 — BP transfers to Ideal Homes (Redevelopment).
• 20 Jan 1994 — Register changes; title corrected.
• 10 Nov 1994 — Ideal Homes transfers the woodland (WA735527) to Forest of Cardiff [PENDING: EV-0136]. The price, if any, is to be confirmed: whether the charity bought for value or received the land as a gift affects the protections available to it (Case Analysis §3.3).
• 28 Jun 1995 — Rights granted to South Wales Electricity plc.
• 18–19 Mar 1996 — Correspondence from Persimmon Homes; last dealing on the file.
• 22 Dec 2005 — Part of the woodland title divided off (Woodland).

Parcel AThe Ideal Homes transfer and later dealings treat the merged estate as one. The woodland title WA735527 contains land from two strands: land tinted blue came through the 1975 conveyance (the farmhouse strand, Parcel A), and land tinted pink came through the 1982 conveyance and is subject to Bute’s 1905 and WGR’s 1961 deeds (the Bute–WGR strand). Overlaying the plan colours on the 1939 tenancy plan will show which woodland is Parcel A (Woodland). Oakview (WA513690) is unclear; best guess the fields, Parcel B.

Evidence description: HMLR says it is retrieving the historic paper files.

Parcel AThe complaint concerns the inclusion of the farmhouse parcel (Parcel A) in the merged title.

Evidence: HMLR registration history, 23 March 2026 (also catalogued as GHF-E026-22)

Evidence description: HMLR sets out the registration history and says there is no evidence of a mistake in the register. ^🕒

HMLR describes the registration as one farm; it does not separate the parcels or explain the root of the Parcel A part.

Evidence description: an Assistant Land Registrar did not uphold the complaint of fraud and maladministration or the request for indemnity. HMLR says it cannot look behind the 1987 judgment.