ARKLEY ESTATES LIMITED

💤Zombieactive
00989743 · ltd · incorporated 1970-09-21
Investment thesis
Zombie company — trading but stalled; unlikely mover.
Why interesting: Quiet, steady; could be a succession or carve-out candidate with the right conversation.
Why risky: No growth signal; thin margin for error on price.
🔒Estimated value
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Turnover
year to Mar 2025
Net worth
book net assets
Opportunity
79/100
Strong
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What this business does
Primary activity: SIC 55300
Sector: Accommodation & food service
ALSO REGISTERED FOR
  • 55900Other accommodation
Investor take
Pursue
Strong opportunity: active trading company with strong profile and bankable structure.

Opportunity 79/100 (strong), bankability 75/100. High owner-dependency — earn-out structure likely required for clean transition. Share purchase looks the cleaner deal structure. Biggest value-creation lever: Broaden director team. Sole director creates succession risk and reduces buyer comfort. Appoint a second director or strong #2. Most likely exit: share sale to pe / searcher (73/100).

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Refinance opportunity

3 live charges · 2 lenders · oldest 48.3y

30/100
under pressure

Refinance would be pressure-driven, not opportunity-driven. Expect tighter margins and covenant scrutiny.

  • · Oldest live charge is 48.3 years old — likely at or near maturity.
  • · Two lenders — manageable, but coordination required.
  • · Distress signals active — lender appetite narrows.

Data confidence

Overall: high (82/100)

Strong data coverage across all sections. AI outputs should be trusted with minimal caveats.

Company profile
address, 2 SIC codes, incorporation date
100
Financials
2 years of iXBRL accounts extracted (YoY deltas available) + narrative notes parsed
75
Lenders & charges
3 charges (3/3 with lender, 3/3 with type)
90
Directors & officers
7 officers (1 active, 7 linked, 5 with DOB)
84
Ownership & PSC
1 active PSC(s) of 2 total, 2 with control declared
90
Director network
10 connected companies via shared directors
75
Filing history
121 filings on record
85
Gazette notices
No matching gazette notices (standard for active companies)
60
🔒Estimated company valuation

Sector-multiple EBITDA, turnover, and NAV-proxy valuation range with confidence tier — derived from extracted iXBRL financials.

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Opportunity Score
79/100Strong
PassWatchWorth a lookStrongExceptional 

Solid opportunity signal. Worth a dedicated memo and management meeting.

Business quality
70
Active, clean filings, stable charge profile.
Acquirability
70
Strong succession / seller-readiness signals.
Risk profile
85
Few red flags.
Signal strength
100
Good data coverage for analysis.

Key financials

2 years extracted from filed iXBRL accounts
Cash
Net Worth
Current Assets
Current Liabilities
£0£0£0£0£0£0Mar 2024Mar 2025

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Financials

Extracted from Companies House accounts · FRS 102
Metric2025-03-312024-03-31
Average employees0300

Amounts extracted automatically from iXBRL. Fields left blank were not reported or not mapped. Values in GBP unless stated.

🔒Filing-note intelligence

2 signals detected in this company's narrative notes — going-concern language, audit opinion, contingent liabilities, related-party transactions.

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Recent activity

Last 30 days
0
filings
Last 90 days
1
filing
  • 1 persons-with-significant-control
Last 180 days
2
filings
  • 1 persons-with-significant-control
  • 1 address
Counts from Companies House filing history.
Corporate timeline (31 events)Click to expand
  1. 2026-05-18
    📄
    change-to-a-person-with-significant-control
    persons-with-significant-control · PSC05
  2. 2026-02-23
    📍
    change-registered-office-address-company-with-date-old-address-new-address
    address · AD01
  3. 2025-09-09
    📄
    accounts-with-accounts-type-small
    accounts · AA
  4. 2024-12-19
    📄
    change-to-a-person-with-significant-control
    persons-with-significant-control · PSC05
  5. 2024-11-07
    📄
    accounts-with-accounts-type-small
    accounts · AA
  6. 2024-10-27
    📄
    memorandum-articles
    incorporation · MA
  7. 2024-08-21
    📄
    resolution
    resolution · RESOLUTIONS
  8. 2023-12-15
    📄
    accounts-with-accounts-type-small
    accounts · AA
  9. 2023-01-18
    📍
    change-registered-office-address-company-with-date-old-address-new-address
    address · AD01
  10. 2022-12-30
    📄
    memorandum-articles
    incorporation · MA
  11. 2022-12-16
    📄
    resolution
    resolution · RESOLUTIONS
  12. 2022-11-23
    📄
    accounts-with-accounts-type-small
    accounts · AA
  13. 2021-10-11
    📄
    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  14. 2020-07-27
    📄
    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  15. 2020-02-10
    📄
    change-to-a-person-with-significant-control
    persons-with-significant-control · PSC05
  16. 2019-11-08
    📄
    change-account-reference-date-company-current-extended
    accounts · AA01
  17. 2019-10-23
    📄
    cessation-of-a-person-with-significant-control
    persons-with-significant-control · PSC07
  18. 2019-10-23
    📄
    notification-of-a-person-with-significant-control
    persons-with-significant-control · PSC02
  19. 2019-08-06
    ANNIS, Michael Cedric appointed
    director
  20. 2019-08-06
    BRIGSTOCK, Lisa, Mrs. resigned
    secretary
  21. 2019-08-06
    BRIGSTOCK, Christopher resigned
    director
  22. 2019-08-06
    BRIGSTOCK, Philip Andrew resigned
    director
  23. 2019-08-06
    🔒
    Charge registered #3
    Lender: Hsbc UK Bank PLC
  24. 2019-08-06
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    Charge registered #2
    Lender: Hsbc UK Bank PLC
  25. 2019-02-18
    BRIGSTOCK, Lisa, Mrs. appointed
    secretary
  26. 2019-02-18
    BRIGSTOCK, Philip Andrew resigned
    secretary
  27. 2005-05-24
    BRIGSTOCK, Avril Ethel resigned
    director
  28. 2005-05-24
    BRIGSTOCK, Kenneth Raymond resigned
    director
  29. 1993-07-15
    🔓
    Charge satisfied #1
  30. 1978-03-23
    🔒
    Charge registered #1
    Lender: Barclays Bank PLC
  31. 1970-09-21
    🏢
    Company incorporated
    As ARKLEY ESTATES LIMITED

Owner dependency

83/100
Critical — business is the founder

The business appears inseparable from the founder. Acquisition without a serious earn-out or meaningful transition period would likely destroy value.

FACTORS
  • +Sole director: Only one active director — all governance concentrated on one person.
  • +Senior director age: Director aged approximately 62 — approaching natural succession window.

Succession & seller-readiness

65/100
Strong succession signal

Multiple signals suggest succession is on the horizon. Candidate for proactive outreach.

SIGNALS
  • secondaryFounder aged 58+: Senior director is approximately 62. Early succession window.
  • primarySole active director: Only one director in control. No visible successor — buyers solve the succession problem.
  • secondaryStable-but-static management: Company is 56 years old and no new directors in the last 3 years — succession not yet being planned internally.

Red flags

clean
No red flags detected from available public data. (This is not a clean bill of health — detailed accounts review still recommended.)

Group structure

Monte Carlo Parks Ltd is the ultimate parent — holding 75%+ shares. This company sits inside their group.

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Monte Carlo Parks Ltd
Corporate parent · holds 75-100% shares · board control
ultimate parent
ARKLEY ESTATES LIMITED
This company · 00989743

Parent relationships inferred from Persons with Significant Control filings. Full subsidiary tree requires reverse-lookup (coming).

Shareholders & ownership

1 active beneficial owner · dominant holder ≥75%
NameSharesVoting rightsNature of controlNotified
Monte Carlo Parks Ltd
Corporate entity
75100%
75–100%board control75-100% shares · 75-100% voting · board control06/08/2019
1 historic (ceased) PSC
  • Bonfram Limitedceased 06/08/2019· 75-100% shares · 75-100% voting

From Companies House Persons with Significant Control filings. Share ranges are banded per the public PSC regime.

🔒Co-director network graph

Radial SVG graph showing every company connected via shared directors, colour-coded by status.

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🔒Tailored diligence questions

7 specific questions generated from this company's actual signals — liquidity, leverage, director age, charge count, red flags, age-of-company.

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Exit-route ranking, improvement thesis, quiet-distress detector, covenant-pressure proxy, extraction monitor, approaching triggers, ownership drift, local cluster, value trap, debt capacity, archetype classification — 48+ scoring modules.

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Company details

Statusactive
Typeltd
Incorporated1970-09-21
Jurisdictionengland-wales
Primary SIC55300 — SIC 55300

Registered office

2nd Floor Origin One
108 High Street
Crawley
West Sussex
RH10 1BD
United Kingdom

Filing status

Accounts
Next due: 2026-12-31
Last made up to: 2025-03-31
Confirmation statement
Next due: 2027-01-15
Last: 2026-01-01

Officers (1 active · 6 resigned)

ANNIS, Michael Cedric
director · ~62y · appointed 2019-08-06
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Active
BRIGSTOCK, Lisa, Mrs.
secretary · appointed 2019-02-18 · resigned 2019-08-06
Resigned
BRIGSTOCK, Philip Andrew
secretary · resigned 2019-02-18
Resigned
BRIGSTOCK, Avril Ethel
director · ~99y · resigned 2005-05-24
Resigned
BRIGSTOCK, Christopher
director · ~68y · resigned 2019-08-06
Resigned
BRIGSTOCK, Kenneth Raymond
director · ~99y · resigned 2005-05-24
Resigned
BRIGSTOCK, Philip Andrew
director · ~71y · resigned 2019-08-06
Resigned

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Mortgages & charges

3
Total charges
2
Outstanding
1
Active lenders
Status:Lender:3 of 3 shown
TypeProperties
outstanding
HSBC
Hsbc UK Bank PLC
A registered charge1 property06/08/2019
outstanding
HSBC
Hsbc UK Bank PLC
A registered charge1 property06/08/2019
satisfied
Barclays
Barclays Bank PLC
Legal charge1 property23/03/197815/07/1993
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Recent filings (121 total)

change-to-a-person-with-significant-control
persons-with-significant-control · PSC05
2026-05-18
change-registered-office-address-company-with-date-old-address-new-address
address · AD01
2026-02-23
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2026-01-08
accounts-with-accounts-type-small
accounts · AA
2025-09-09
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2025-01-06
change-to-a-person-with-significant-control
persons-with-significant-control · PSC05
2024-12-19
accounts-with-accounts-type-small
accounts · AA
2024-11-07
memorandum-articles
incorporation · MA
2024-10-27
resolution
resolution · RESOLUTIONS
2024-08-21
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2024-01-03
accounts-with-accounts-type-small
accounts · AA
2023-12-15
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2023-01-18
change-registered-office-address-company-with-date-old-address-new-address
address · AD01
2023-01-18
memorandum-articles
incorporation · MA
2022-12-30
resolution
resolution · RESOLUTIONS
2022-12-16