Record

EV ID	EV-0289
Title	Press search snippets: (1) 7 Feb 1981, BP Pension Trust sells its residential freehold ground rents in South Wales to Cefn Estates, “one of the biggest property deals of its kind”; (2) South Wales Echo, 29 Jul 1983, p.21, “PLAN FOR HOUSE”: Vale councillors to hold a site meeting in Llandough on BP Pension Trust’s plan to build a house on land at Penlan Road
Date of document	7 February 1981; 29 July 1983
Type	newspaper search snippets (set)
Evidence label	SNIPPET ONLY (British Newspaper Archive free search results; pages not read)
Repository / reference	British Newspaper Archive free search results: Sheffield Daily Telegraph 7 Feb 1981 p.6; Belfast News-Letter 7 Feb 1981 p.6; South Wales Echo 29 Jul 1983 p.21 (search “bp pension” llandough, 1980–1989)
Status	SOURCE PENDING (snippets read 21 Oct 2026)
Provenance	Free BNA search, decade sweep, 21 Oct 2026.
Related evidence	EV-0288 (BP buys WGR for its pension fund, 1969) · EV-0270 (BP Pension Fund land sale, 1988)

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Quotation (verbatim): “PLAN FOR HOUSE: VALE councillors are to hold [a] site meeting in Llandough to discuss plans by the BP Pension Trust to build a house there. The trust propose to build on land at Penlan Road but Llandough Community Council say the access to the plot would be dangerous …” (South Wales Echo, 29 Jul 1983, p.21). “BP Pension Trust has sold its residential freehold ground [rents in] South Wales, in one of the biggest property deals of its kind in Britain for many years. The deal [is] with Cefn Estates …” (Sheffield Daily Telegraph, 7 Feb 1981, p.6). OCR slips corrected; square brackets mark words the OCR garbles.

Fits with: BP Pension Trust was still developing land in Llandough in July 1983, four months after Mary (Nancy) Williams died at the farmhouse and while first registration (WA231076, WA240304) was in progress. The 1981 sale shows the ground-rent estate WGR brought into BP in 1969 being sold on, while the Llandough land was kept.

Cuts against: Whether the Penlan Road plot was part of Great House Farm is unverified (most likely it was BP land near the farm; the plot is not identified in the snippet). Neither snippet names Great House Farm.

Notes: Vale of Glamorgan planning register (1983 application by BP Pension Trust, Penlan Road); Llandough Community Council minutes 1983 (Glamorgan Archives P35, from 1982).

Catalogued by Sion’s Tab agent, 21 Oct 2026, in the decade-by-decade gap sweep (free online sources only).

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