AHERN LAND RECLAMATION LIMITED

🌳Matureactive
01646149 · ltd · incorporated 1982-06-24
Investment thesis
Established operating company — standard diligence applies, no dominant angle.
Why interesting: Live, filing, normal profile.
Why risky: No standout signals in either direction.
Opportunity decay
approaching window · 12-months
Approaching a transaction window — refinance or sale event plausible in the next 12 months.
  • · Oldest live charge 34.9y old — refinance window within 12 months
🔒Estimated value
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Turnover
year to Oct 2024
Net worth
£493.5k
book net assets
Opportunity
82/100
Exceptional
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What this business does
Primary activity: SIC 08990
Sector: Mining & quarrying
ALSO REGISTERED FOR
  • 82990Other business support service activities n.e.c.
Investor take
Pursue
Active trading company with a 79-year-old founder — textbook succession opportunity.

Opportunity 82/100 (exceptional), bankability 80/100. Strong seller-intent signal (63/100, director aged 79). Share purchase looks the cleaner deal structure. Biggest value-creation lever: Discharge stale live charges. 1 live charge(s) created 15+ years ago — likely paid but undischarged. Clean register. Most likely exit: share sale to pe / searcher (65/100).

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Refinance opportunity

1 live charge · oldest 34.9y

65/100
clean up first

Refinance viable after a tidy-up — address the highlighted items first.

  • · Oldest live charge is 34.9 years old — likely at or near maturity.
  • · Single lender — cleanest path to refinance.
  • · Legal-friction score 25/100 — workable, but lender will want more DD.

Data confidence

Overall: high (84/100)

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
1 charges (1/1 with lender, 1/1 with type)
90
Directors & officers
4 officers (4 active, 4 linked, 3 with DOB)
85
Ownership & PSC
1 active PSC(s) of 1 total, 1 with control declared
90
Director network
15 connected companies via shared directors
90
Filing history
103 filings on record
85
Gazette notices
No matching gazette notices (standard for active companies)
60
Opportunity Score
82/100Exceptional
PassWatchWorth a lookStrongExceptional 

Strong composite across quality, acquirability, and risk. High-priority target — progress to serious diligence.

Business quality
70
Active, clean filings, stable charge profile.
Acquirability
80
Strong succession / seller-readiness signals.
Risk profile
85
Few red flags.
Signal strength
100
Good data coverage for analysis.

Signals from accounts

Derived from iXBRL accounts · FRS 102
Positive net assets
Net assets £493,496

Key financials

2 years extracted from filed iXBRL accounts
Cash
Net Worth
£493k
~ YoY
Current Assets
Current Liabilities
£0£99k£197k£296k£395k£493kOct 2023Oct 2024

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Financials

Extracted from Companies House accounts · FRS 102
Metric2024-10-312023-10-31
Total assets£493.5k£489.4k
Debtors£365.0k£725.0k
Net assets£493.5k£489.4k

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

🔒Filing-note intelligence

1 signal 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
6
filings
  • 4 officers
  • 1 persons-with-significant-control
  • 1 address
Last 90 days
7
filings
  • 4 officers
  • 1 persons-with-significant-control
  • 1 address
Last 180 days
7
filings
  • 4 officers
  • 1 persons-with-significant-control
  • 1 address
Counts from Companies House filing history.
Corporate timeline (18 events)Click to expand
  1. 2026-06-05
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    change-to-a-person-with-significant-control
    persons-with-significant-control · PSC05
  2. 2026-06-04
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    change-person-secretary-company-with-change-date
    officers · CH03
  3. 2026-06-04
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    change-person-director-company-with-change-date
    officers · CH01
  4. 2026-06-04
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    change-person-director-company-with-change-date
    officers · CH01
  5. 2026-06-04
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    change-person-director-company-with-change-date
    officers · CH01
  6. 2026-06-04
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    change-registered-office-address-company-with-date-old-address-new-address
    address · AD01
  7. 2025-07-29
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-full
    accounts · AA
  8. 2024-05-30
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-full
    accounts · AA
  9. 2023-05-30
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-full
    accounts · AA
  10. 2022-07-15
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-full
    accounts · AA
  11. 2021-07-29
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-full
    accounts · AA
  12. 2020-08-18
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-small
    accounts · AA
  13. 2019-07-10
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-audited-abridged
    accounts · AA
  14. 2018-07-17
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-audited-abridged
    accounts · AA
  15. 2017-07-19
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-small
    accounts · AA
  16. 2008-03-06
    SCOTT, Peter Ryan appointed
    director
  17. 1991-07-24
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    Charge registered #1
    Lender: The Royal Bank of Scotland PLC
  18. 1982-06-24
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    Company incorporated
    As AHERN LAND RECLAMATION LIMITED

Owner dependency

98/100
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
  • +Founder name in company name: Company name contains director surname "AHERN" — strong identity link between founder and business.
  • +Long-tenure founder: Senior director has been in place 18 years — deep operational knowledge concentrated in one person.
  • +Founder age: Director aged approximately 79 — succession pressure is live.
  • +Family involvement: Multiple officers share a surname — likely family business, which concentrates governance.

Succession & seller-readiness

83/100
Likely off-market candidate

Strong acquirability signals converging. Worth approaching directly — this is how off-market deals start.

SIGNALS
  • primaryFounder aged 70+: Senior director is approximately 79 years old. Natural succession window is now.
  • secondary12+ year tenure: Director in role 18 years.
  • secondaryStable-but-static management: Company is 44 years old and no new directors in the last 3 years — succession not yet being planned internally.
  • supportingClean filings + long tenure: Disciplined long-tenure operator — classic lifestyle-business pattern that often sells quietly.

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

P F Ahern & Sons Limited is the ultimate parent — holding 75%+ shares. This company sits inside their group.

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P F Ahern & Sons Limited
Corporate parent · holds 75-100% shares · board control
ultimate parent
AHERN LAND RECLAMATION LIMITED
This company · 01646149

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
P F Ahern & Sons Limited
Corporate entity
75100%
75–100%board control75-100% shares · 75-100% voting · board control06/04/2016

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

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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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Company details

Statusactive
Typeltd
Incorporated1982-06-24
Jurisdictionengland-wales
Primary SIC08990 — SIC 08990

Registered office

17 Bourne Court Southend Road
Woodford Green
Essex
IG8 8HD
United Kingdom

Filing status

Accounts
Next due: 2026-07-31
Last made up to: 2024-10-31
Confirmation statement
Next due: 2027-03-14
Last: 2026-02-28

Officers (4 active · 0 resigned)

SCOTT, Lilian Beatrice
secretary
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Active
AHERN, Patrick Brian
director · ~79y
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Active
SCOTT, Lilian Beatrice
director · ~78y
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Active
SCOTT, Peter Ryan
director · ~48y · appointed 2008-03-06
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Active

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Mortgages & charges

1
Total charges
1
Outstanding
1
Active lenders
Status:Lender:1 of 1 shown
TypeProperties
outstanding
Lloyds Banking Group
The Royal Bank of Scotland PLC
Debenture1 property24/07/1991
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Recent filings (103 total)

change-to-a-person-with-significant-control
persons-with-significant-control · PSC05
2026-06-05
change-person-secretary-company-with-change-date
officers · CH03
2026-06-04
change-person-director-company-with-change-date
officers · CH01
2026-06-04
change-person-director-company-with-change-date
officers · CH01
2026-06-04
change-person-director-company-with-change-date
officers · CH01
2026-06-04
change-registered-office-address-company-with-date-old-address-new-address
address · AD01
2026-06-04
confirmation-statement-with-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2026-03-30
accounts-with-accounts-type-full
accounts · AA
2025-07-29
confirmation-statement-with-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2025-03-27
accounts-with-accounts-type-full
accounts · AA
2024-05-30
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2024-03-05
accounts-with-accounts-type-full
accounts · AA
2023-05-30
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2023-03-16
accounts-with-accounts-type-full
accounts · AA
2022-07-15
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2022-03-03