{"id":34336,"date":"2019-11-06T10:17:38","date_gmt":"2019-11-06T10:17:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jacothenorth.net\/blog\/?p=34336"},"modified":"2019-11-06T15:00:41","modified_gmt":"2019-11-06T15:00:41","slug":"not-another-one","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jacothenorth.net\/blog\/not-another-one\/","title":{"rendered":"Not another one!"},"content":{"rendered":"

PLEASE APPRECIATE THAT I GET SENT MORE <\/b><\/span>INFORMATION AND LEADS THAN I CAN USE. I TRY TO RESPOND TO EVERYONE WHO CONTACTS ME BUT I CANNOT POSSIBLY USE EVERY BIT OF INFORMATION <\/b>I’M<\/b><\/span><\/span> SENT. DIOLCH YN FAWR<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n

\u2666<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>This is just a quickie that I want to get out before too much damage is done. This report from North Wales Live<\/a> tells us that a property hot-shot has bought the Shire Hall in Llangefni. Nice little town, Llangefni, the wife enjoys a trip there. We always pop up to the Kyffin Williams gallery for a few hours. But enough of me and the missus.<\/p>\n

You’ll note that the report I’ve linked to is written by Owen Hughes, the NWL business correspondent, who I’ve mentioned before. He it was who gave Paul and Rowena Williams of Plas Glynllifon write-up after uncritical write-up, so I thought I’d fire a warning shot across his bows before he steams ahead with this latest Titanic.<\/p>\n

The man in question, the ‘property developer’, is Tristan Haynes or, to give him his full name, Tristan Scott Haynes. Who, in the report, is said to be: “Based in Bedfordshire, the managing director of Chief Properties \u2013 who also runs a successful haulage firm – had never been to Anglesey before identifying Shire Hall as a possible location.”<\/em><\/p>\n

So let’s look at Chief Properties Ltd<\/a>. A company formed in August 2018, which means there are no accounts filed, nothing. This company was almost certainly formed specifically to buy Llangefni’s Shire Hall, which went for sale a couple of months earlier<\/a>. The company seems to own no other property, and it has no record of contracts completed, work done, or anything else.<\/p>\n

But the Companies House entry can tell us that Haynes has taken out two loans with Together Commercial Finance Ltd<\/a> to buy the Shire Hall, and if that lender sounds familiar then it’s probably because it’s where Paul and Rowena Williams went for loans when the big banks started turning them down.<\/p>\n

Then there’s the “successful haulage firm”<\/em> that Haynes is said to run. Would this be Falcon Transportation Ltd<\/a>, from which he resigned in February 2018 and to which he made a comeback in February 2019?<\/p>\n

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Click to enlarge<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

There are of course many different ways of gauging success, but I don’t think Eddie Stobart need lose any sleep over a company with net assets of \u00a321,802.<\/p>\n

Elsewhere in his encomium Owen Hughes tells us, “Tristan <\/em>(they’re on first name terms!), who grew up in South Africa, the US and the Middle East before travelling the world as an Olympic-level windsurfer, spotted the Glanhwfa Road site when searching for a refurbishment project.”<\/em><\/p>\n

Though it might be understandable why we didn’t read about Bullet Strategies Ltd<\/a>, another Haynes company, seeing as he never got around to telling Companies House what kind of business it was. Formed January 2013, dissolved September 2014 with nothing filed.<\/p>\n

We’ve read that Haynes was an ‘Olympic-level windsurfer’, so perhaps that’s why he was in Malta, where he got involved in a road rage incident that saw him being sent down in January 2010 for four years<\/a>. Then there was the strange case of his ‘escape’<\/a>.<\/p>\n

I don’t know about you, boys and girls, but I’m beginning to have that old familiar feeling about Tristan. I mean, what do we know about him? The short answer is – nothing.<\/p>\n

Except that he has a vague and perhaps unverifiable background. He’s a kung-fu expert who was convicted of beating up a couple of old men on Malta. His property company is new and reliant on borrowed money. He seems to have no experience relevant to the project he talks about for the Shire Hall. His haulage firm – despite what Owen Hughes tells us – is hardly a glittering success. And then there’s Bullet Strategies Ltd, what the hell was that about?<\/p>\n

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The global HQ of Chief Properties and Falcon Transportation, 135-137 Tavistock Street, Bedford. Image courtesy of Google. Click to enlarge.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Here’s Jac’s advice. To the good people of Llangefni – keep an eye on your Shire Hall.<\/p>\n

To the county council – according to the Land Registry the sale may not have gone through yet – it certainly hasn’t been registered<\/a> – so there may still be time to call it off. I know you’re desperate to offload this building, but this deal is almost guaranteed to turn out badly – for you!<\/p>\n

To the self-styled ‘Welsh Government’ – don’t give this guy a penny of our<\/em> money!<\/p>\n

To Owen Hughes and the rest of the ‘Welsh media’ – for God’s sake do a few simple checks before going into raptures about people you know nothing about. You could save us all a lot of heartache and money, and yourselves embarrassment.<\/p>\n

The bigger question must be why Wales keeps attracting these people. The short answer is that a poor country with plenty of surplus property going for a song will always attract chancers and worse.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The only remedy is independence and the economic uplift it will provide, plus the restrictions that can be placed on foreign ownership. But in the meantime, as a colony, we must expect more like Paul Williams, and Myles Cunliffe, and Gavin Woodhouse, and Tristan Haynes, and . . .\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

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PLEASE APPRECIATE THAT I GET SENT MORE INFORMATION AND LEADS THAN I CAN USE. I TRY TO RESPOND TO EVERYONE WHO CONTACTS ME BUT I CANNOT POSSIBLY USE EVERY BIT OF INFORMATION I’M SENT. DIOLCH YN FAWR \u2666 This is just a quickie that I want to get out before too much damage is done. … <\/p>\n

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