[Diggers350] Holts Field: Plotlands Adverse Possession Claim Successfully Upheld In Swansea

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Holts Field: Plotlands Adverse Possession Claim Successfully Upheld In Swansea

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Community Rejoices as Claim for Adverse Possession Successfully Upheld

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Gregory Horne, Solicitor in the Housing Law team 
at Hodge Jones & Allen, successfully assisted the 
defendant in the case of Elitestone v Revill, 
helping Mr. Revill to demonstrate factual 
possession of the land in dispute; whereby the 
original claim for possession was dismissed with 
the counterclaim for adverse possession allowed with declarations and costs.
Emacs!

Hodge Jones & Allen took on Mr Revills case 
after his previous legal representative was 
unable to secure him a legal aid certificate. 
Gregory then had to work with counsel, Timothy 
Baldwin, Barrister at Garden Court Chambers, to 
formulate a defence in less than 14 days time as 
a result of the switch in legal teams.

On taking instructions, Mr Revill explained that 
he was in occupation of a plot of land referred 
to as Unit 16 Holts Field in opposition to 
Elitestone Ltd, a real estate company who intended to develop the land.

Wales online: 
<https://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-news/holtsfield-gower-swansea-chalet-community-16913747>Inside 
Holtsfield, the thriving but hidden community 
that has emerged on a holiday site which became a wartime refuge

Holts Field is a small patch of land housing some 
twenty families who have lived there since the 
1930s and some of whom had held a licence to 
occupy prior to Elitestones acquisition. Mr 
Revill explained that he had been in occupation 
of the land for 35 years, since 1991, and that he 
had been active in campaigns to defend the people 
who lived there, including himself, from eviction 
for the entire period of his occupation.

He directed Hodge Jones & Allen to a national 
campaign by the people of Holts Field which had 
resulted in a case which escalated to the House 
of Lords in 1997 from which a number of the 
occupiers of the field had won secure Rent Act 
tenancies. Mr Revill explained that his 
occupation began when he paid the person 
previously in occupation £6,000 for the right to 
the chalet. It later transpired that this was the 
wrong person to pay as they had never had 
permission form the licence holder to live in the chalet themselves.

Swansea council: 
<https://www.swansea.gov.uk/conservationarea4?lang=en>Conservation 
area  Holts Field

Mr Revill was unfortunately the victim of a fire 
in March 2024 which destroyed his chalet on Holts 
Field, destroyed all the documentation which 
might have lent credibility to his claims, and 
caused Mr Revill such severe injury that he was 
medically declared dead and had no heartbeat for 
15 minutes. He was eventually resuscitated and it 
was at that point that possession proceedings began.

Gregory assisted in preparing a defence which 
argued firstly that he was a licensee, having 
bought a licence when he took up occupation, and 
in the alternative that he was in adverse 
possession and had been since 1991 meaning that 
he was entitled to a declaration that the 
property was held on trust for him beneficially.

At a three day trial last week, Gregory and 
Timothy Baldwin were both able to successfully 
persuade the judge that despite the deficiencies 
in documentary evidence, there was sufficient 
credible evidence, primarily in the form of the 
live testimony evidence of those who were also 
involved in the struggle for the field in 1991, 
that Mr Revill had begun his occupation in the 
summer of 1991 and was therefore entitled to the declaration sought.

The Land Is Ours 1997 Action: 
<https://tlio.org.uk/past-camapigns/holtsfield/>1997: 
action in the Gower, Holtsfield homepage

At that trial, HHJ Beard gave an oral judgement 
making findings of fact on the evidence that the 
Defendant had been in uninterrupted possession of 
Unit 16 from August 1991 and that breaks in 
possession in 2019 and as a result of the fire 
did not amount to abandonment and he had sought 
secure and improve the land. Therefore, the 
elements of demonstrating adverse possession were 
made out as he has factual possession of the 
land, had the necessary intention to possession 
the land and this was without the Claimants 
consent. Further as the possession had been at 
least 12 years prior to the 13 October 2003 
before the Land Registration Act 2003 came into 
force he was entitled to the declaration and 
registration as proprietor. Thus, the claim for 
possession was dismissed and the counterclaim for 
adverse possession allowed with declarations and costs.

The case demonstrated the strength of the 
community and showed solidarity in action amongst 
those who have lived and fought for their right to remain for all those years.

Emacs!

As a result of this ruling, Mr Revill has already 
begun construction work on a new chalet on the 
site and intends to take up occupation and rejoin 
the community there at the earliest opportunity. 
Gregory and Mr Baldwin also achieved an order for 
costs subject to detailed assessment as per legal aid guidance.

Commenting on the successful result, Gregory 
stated: I was very pleased to be able to help Mr 
Revill. It is inspiring to see a community come 
together to make right such a long running 
dispute and I am hopeful that this judgement will 
bring to a close the 35 plus years of conflict 
between Elitestone and the residents of Holts Field.

Read more elsewhere here on The Land Is Ours 
website: 
<https://tlio.org.uk/holtsfield-the-story-so-far/>Holtsfield  The Story so Far

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