Land Registry search

Since the freehold of the land was sold I have been waiting for Land Registry to catch up. All land tranfers will appear on the Land Registry portal eventually.

I blogged on this last month http://pleasurama.blogspot.co.uk/2016/08/post-freehold-purchase.html

and before that here http://pleasurama.blogspot.co.uk/2016/08/the-gift-that-keeps-on-giving.html

Now it seems that the site registry has completed. It throws up some interesting facts.

This is the area subject to the transfer

Price stated £3M which is at variance to the TDC press announcement of £3.515M, I wonder why?

The land cannot be sold or mortgaged without the written permission of Mintal Group Inc which as we know is Colin Hill and his son Robbie.

"(04.08.2016) Option to purchase in favour of Thanet District Council contained in a Option Agreement dated 20 July 2016 made between (1) SPF Ventures (UK) Limited (2) Thanet District Council and (3) Cardy Construction Limited upon the terms therein mentioned"

The above appears on the charges register however it is unclear why Cardy Construction are involved at the deal was made between Cardy Ramsgate Ltd not Cardy Construction. Has TDC's lawyers made a mistake?

Ian Driver blogged on this recently http://thanetgreencouncillor.blogspot.co.uk/2016/10/pleasurama-labours-excuse-factory.html However I'm not sure if he is aware of the Land Registry documents. Neither am I aware whether he knows about the former roundabout which seems to have been removed from the Registry. "The Freehold land shown edged with red on the plan of the above title
filed at the Registry and being Land lying to the south of Wellington Crescent, Ramsgate.
NOTE: So much of the land tinted pink on the title plan as consists of highway maintainable at public expense is excluded from the registration."
So who owns this land?

Interesting that Mike Stannard's Cardy Construction has been granted outline planning on the site of the former Brooke Marine now owned by Flight Services SA which is another Colin Hill company.

The story of how Hill acquired the land is blogged here http://pleasurama.blogspot.co.uk/2014/09/max-bygraves.html

Max Bygraves

The late great Max had this as a byline "I wanna tell you a story" but I leave it to the imagination of the reader as to the truth of it.

1992 Brooke Marine ceased trading*1

1993 The Trustee in Bankruptcy (Anthony William Mudd deceased) sold all the plant and machinery by auction*1

1997 Flight Services SA was incorporated in Switzerland*2

1997 Flight Services SA become the proud owner of "Land at South Shipyard, Heath Road, Lowestoft" 18 hectares of the former Brooke Marine*3

December 2002 Terry Painter, in front of TDC stated “He (Shaun Keegan) recently purchased 50 acres of land in Lowestoft on the waterfront” 

January 2006 SFP Ventures (UK) ltd incorporated. Accountants the Mudd Partnership based in  Billericay Essex

September 2006 SFP Ventures (UK) ltd sign a Development Agreement (DA) with TDC for 
 Pleasurama

January 2008 Proposal put to Waveney Planning department by CKS Developments Ltd*5 for housing at Brooke Marine Link here

September 2009 New DA signed between Keegan (SFP) and TDC. Due diligence has revealed that SFP Ventures use the business address of Brooke Business Park where Karen Louise Haylock is the manager*4

21/8/2013 Golden Balls email  link here

November 2013 unconfirmed story says Cardy bid to take over Pleasurama rejected by TDC

Spring 2014 Waveney Council confirm site at Brooke Marine to have outline permission for residential

August 2014 TDC accept that if Cardy buy SFP Ventures (UK) Ltd from the current owner then they will deal with Cardy over the development

September 2014 proposal to Cabinet to accept Cardy should they complete purchase
Coincidentally Assael a leading firm of architects were commissioned by Cardy Construction Ltd to design 850 houses on the former Brooke Marine link here


Wheels within wheels, links within links, deals within deals. The coincidences mount up and Ramsgate's future seems to be the last thought in the mind of developers.

Why does the son in law of the current developer set up a company called Flight Services SA to buy from his accountant land which could have as easily be done with a UK registered Company?

How is it the client instructing a leading firm of Architects is a building firm in Canterbury when the legal owner of the land is a Swiss firm headed by a man who lives in Stutton, Suffolk?

There may be other questions and the answers to the above are probably perfectly legitimate and maybe just confusing to others. 

I hope that this doesn't all end in tears for a reputable building firm based in Canterbury

*1 Re: Brook Business Park

Brooke Yachts International ceased trading in 1992.
The Receivers were A W Mudd of Billericay Essex.
In 1993 all equipment and items to do with shipbuilding were auctioned.
The site was sold and the current owners (not known) revenue is provided from mooring fees and the letting of buildings etc.
No new structures have been erected.
The future of the site as laid out in the local plan is for mostly residential development.

Peter Hansford,
Brooke Archivist 25/6/2013

 

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*5 Spokesperson Shaun Keegan in the article however CKS Developments ltd (05999282)  has one real person as director Louise Karen Haylock. addendum 15 May 2012

Return Of Final Meeting In Creditors’ Voluntary Winding-up