The site’s chronology records demolition during the night of 5–6 December 1988, following the final stages of the possession dispute and the heritage-listing issue.

The record includes the December 1988 eviction proceedings, press coverage, and the final possession dispute. The detailed sequence is set out on the 1988: Possession and Demolition page.

Yes. The site records outline planning application 89/01396/OUT, granted on 13 March 1990, followed by reserved matters application 92/00671/RES. The surviving planning record is still being reconstructed.

No such instrument has been located in the material reviewed to date. Because outline permission was granted on 13 March 1990, the historic search should include any agreement under section 52 of the Town and Country Planning Act 1971, as well as deeds, undertakings and local-land-charge entries. The absence of an identified agreement is not proof that none existed. ^🕒

The 1989 officer’s report records that East Vale Local Plan Policy H.2 supported residential development but that the policy’s supporting information said the buildings on the site should be retained. The same report records that the buildings had already been demolished. The surviving planning record does not yet show how the Council reconciled those facts.

The officer’s report says Appendix B contained further GGAT comments received after discussions with the Trust; C and D were representations, including one from a local County Councillor described as a GGAT member; and E was the applicants’ agents’ response to GGAT. These annexes are absent from the planning file disclosed in 2026.

The record identifies Ideal Homes Wales as the 1992 reserved-matters applicant and separately records BP’s transfer to Ideal Homes on 3 December 1993. The documentary question is what legal or contractual interest or arrangement explained the earlier application. It is not, by itself, evidence that the application was invalid.

The 1988 environmental-assessment regulations were in force when the outline application was made. The site was about 3.4 acres, while case-law discussing those regulations identifies a 0.5-hectare threshold for the Schedule 2 urban-development category. The Council’s screening/determination record has not yet been located.