Record#

EV ID

EV-0117

Title

South Wales Echo: Vale councillors authorise legal action against BP Properties over demolition

Date of document

11 February 1989

Type

press

Evidence label

PRESS REPORT

Repository / reference

South Wales Echo 11 Feb 1989 p.2, filed in Heneb HER (Archwilio) record GGAT02038s, source-file document 301368875.

Status

HELD (public online copy, not yet mirrored on the wiki) — open

Provenance

Public PDF on Archwilio, uploaded by Heneb after its 14 Oct 2026 email; Downloaded and read by Tab’s research (finding F055).

Claims that rely on this

Press and Archive Leads — October 2026

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Quotation: Councillors authorised legal action against BP Properties; the council’s letter of 13 Dec 1988 via Debenham Tewson had gone unanswered; an enforcement notice was being prepared (legal director Alan Oliver) — summary of the report.

Proves: By February 1989 Vale of Glamorgan Council was reported taking legal and enforcement action against BP Properties over the demolition, after an unanswered 13 Dec 1988 letter.

Does not prove: It is a press report. It does not show the outcome, and it cuts against any suggestion that the council and BP acted together.