Subject: Re: Your Ref: EDD Our Ref: WA231076/A/216/LG
From: Sion Buckler
Direction: sent
Date: Tue, 24 Mar 2026 02:33 UTC
Institution: HM Land Registry
Refs: none
Archive id: gm-19d1db0c7d31106a
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Ms Griffiths,

Thanks for your letter of 23 March 2026 regarding the historic registration
of Ty Mawr Farm, title WA231076. I note your explanation of HM Land
Registry’s administrative role and that you say there is no evidence of a
“mistake” on the basis of the file you have reviewed.

My family’s concern, however, is that the first registration was procured
by misrepresentation and identity fraud by BP, rather than by a simple
clerical error. The occupier was my grandmother, Mrs Williams, from a
family that had occupied the property and land since at least 1667, not the
fictitious “Mrs Buckler” BP fabricated in 1974 for their unilateral
licence, which was the basis of the BP Properties Ltd v Buckler (1987) case.
BP also appears to have failed to disclose the long‑running ownership
dispute. In a 1978 suppressed newspaper article, my grandmother publicly
asserted her ownership and stated that BP could not prove ownership and had
never obtained a court ruling that it was the owner, only possession orders.

How was BP able to register our land in its name? Did HM Land Registry
enquire whether there was any dispute over the land, given that the dispute
appears in court records from 1974? Twice that year BP obstructed my
grandmother from making her case that she owned the land: first, the
hearing was adjourned without a ruling; then the licence letters, using
identity fraud, prevented the second hearing from taking place. These were
opportunities to dispossess a widowed, disabled woman.
Had HM Land Registry recorded or investigated the existence of this
dispute, BP’s inability to prove ownership, the archaeological and historic
significance of the site, or sought a copy of my grandmother’s death
certificate to see that the name on the licence and narrative were
completely different, we believe BP would not have been able to achieve
first registration on the basis presented. Instead, the use of the wrong
name (“Mrs Buckler” instead of my married grandmother, Mrs Williams) and
the non‑disclosure of the dispute and family claim enabled dispossession
through what we say was identity fraud, which my grandmother was unable to
contest as she also died in the same year as registration.

I wish to append to this land parcel our maintained position of dispute. We
never surrendered. We were removed by around 30 police officers and
information was suppressed. My family being paralysed by fear and silence
is not the same as surrender from sound mind and agency.
Further background is set out at bpvsbuckler.datro.xyz. My family wants
narrative justice as the possibly rightful, dispossessed via fraud,
executors of the Manor of Llandough.

I am aware that HM Land Registry operates a statutory indemnity and redress
scheme under the Land Registration Act 2002, and that substantial payments
(including around £8 million in a single year) have been made where people
suffer loss because of mistakes or fraud in the register. I therefore wish
to explore, formally, whether our family’s loss of Ty Mawr Farm, in
circumstances where BP’s misrepresentations and the suppression of an
active dispute were not reflected on the register, can be considered within
that indemnity/redress framework.

In light of the above, I ask HM Land Registry to state clearly whether you
accept or deny that:
BP was able to obtain first registration of Ty Mawr Farm even though there
was no court ruling that BP owned the land and BP had been unable to prove
ownership in proceedings, which were confined to possession.

The land was registered while there was an active and public dispute over
ownership (including my grandmother’s 1978 public assertion of ownership
and the BP v Buckler litigation), and while the long‑term occupier, my
grandmother, had died and was therefore unable to challenge the application.

My grandmother’s identity and superior family title and land claim
associated with that name were mis‑described in the material on which you
relied, as BP used “Mrs Buckler” instead of my married grandmother’s actual
name, Mrs Williams, and that this misdescription and the concealment of the
dispute were not detected or queried by HM Land Registry before completing
first registration.�
If these matters are admitted, I consider they amount to negligence and
maladministration by HM Land Registry in allowing BP to register our family
land in its name in those circumstances. If you do not accept that, please
explain precisely which of the above points you dispute and on what basis,
so that I can take appropriate legal advice and pursue an indemnity/redress
claim if available.
Separately from that, please also:
Provide official copies of the 23 May 1975 and 19 November 1982
conveyances, and of the first registration applications and all supporting
documents for WA231076 and WA240304, so I can obtain specialist advice on
the extent of any misrepresentation in what was lodged.

Confirm the correct procedure and forms to make a claim under your
indemnity/redress scheme in a historic case of alleged fraud and
misrepresentation in first registration, and whether you consider this
matter potentially falls within that scheme, subject to evidence.

I appreciate that you cannot determine the underlying ownership dispute,
but it is important that HM Land Registry notes that the Buckler/Williams
family contests the integrity of the original registration of Ty Mawr Farm
on the basis of identity fraud, non‑disclosure of a live dispute, and the
absence of any judicial determination that BP owned the land.

Regards,

Sion Buckler

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