ALBION WATER LIMITED
🌳Matureactive
03102176 · ltd · incorporated 1995-09-14
Investment thesis
Well-run mature business — low negotiation leverage; premium likely.
Why interesting: Textbook target; clean filings, stable trading.
Why risky: No pressure on seller; any deal likely at full price.
Opportunity decay
hardening · 12-months
Already tight — no obvious softening catalysts on the horizon.
- · Thesis: well-run, low negotiation leverage
🔒Estimated value
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Turnover
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year to Mar 2025
Net worth
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book net assets
Opportunity
77/100
Strong
What this business does
Likely involved in the day-to-day supply of water and management of wastewater or sewerage services to customers within a defined region, operating as a regulated or licensed water utility under England and Wales jurisdiction.
Primary activity: SIC 36000
Sector: Water supply & waste
ALSO REGISTERED FOR
- 37000SIC 37000
Investor take
PursueStrong opportunity: active trading company with strong profile and acceptable with review structure.
Opportunity 77/100 (strong), bankability 67/100. Strong seller-intent signal (60/100, director aged 59). Share purchase looks the cleaner deal structure. Biggest value-creation lever: Consolidate lender relationships. 4 distinct lenders creates friction — refinance into single-lender structure for cleaner diligence. Most likely exit: share sale to pe / searcher (65/100).
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Refinance opportunity
5 live charges · 4 lenders · oldest 16.5y
35/100
too messy
Refinance path is blocked by complexity. Rethink structure or expect bespoke, expensive terms.
- · Oldest live charge is 16.5 years old — likely at or near maturity.
- · 4 lenders named — inter-creditor friction likely.
- · Legal-friction score 30/100 — workable, but lender will want more DD.
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
5 charges (5/5 with lender, 5/5 with type)
90
Directors & officers
35 officers (3 active, 35 linked, 24 with DOB)
84
Ownership & PSC
1 active PSC(s) of 4 total, 4 with control declared
90
Director network
12 connected companies via shared directors
81
Filing history
181 filings on record
85
Gazette notices
No matching gazette notices (standard for active companies)
60
Opportunity Score
77/100Strong
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
77
Few red flags.
Signal strength
100
Good data coverage for analysis.
Key financials
2 years extracted from filed iXBRL accountsCash
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Current Assets
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Financials
Extracted from Companies House accounts · FRS 102| Metric | 2025-03-31 | 2024-03-31 |
|---|---|---|
| Average employees | 1300 | 1100 |
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.
Available from the Pro tier upwards.
See pricing →Recent activity
Last 30 days
0
filings
Last 90 days
1
filing
- • 1 confirmation-statement
Last 180 days
2
filings
- • 1 confirmation-statement
- • 1 accounts
Counts from Companies House filing history.
Corporate timeline (97 events)Click to expand
- 2025-12-23📄accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-fullaccounts · AA
- 2025-09-26📄mortgage-satisfy-charge-fullmortgage · MR04
- 2025-09-26🔓Charge satisfied #4
- 2025-08-04📄change-to-a-person-with-significant-controlpersons-with-significant-control · PSC05
- 2025-06-10📄accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-fullaccounts · AA
- 2025-03-13📄change-account-reference-date-company-previous-shortenedaccounts · AA01
- 2024-11-21📍change-registered-office-address-company-with-date-old-address-new-addressaddress · AD01
- 2024-03-28📄accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-fullaccounts · AA
- 2023-05-19📄mortgage-satisfy-charge-fullmortgage · MR04
- 2023-05-19🔓Charge satisfied #3
- 2023-03-31📄accounts-with-accounts-type-smallaccounts · AA
- 2023-03-14➕SHORE, Adam appointeddirector
- 2023-03-14➖LINDOP, Gareth Robert resigneddirector
- 2023-03-14📄appoint-person-director-company-with-name-dateofficers · AP01
- 2023-03-14📄termination-director-company-with-name-termination-dateofficers · TM01
- 2022-07-20📄mortgage-create-with-deed-with-charge-number-charge-creation-datemortgage · MR01
- 2022-07-19🔒Charge registered #5Lender: Hsbc UK Bank PLC
- 2022-04-11📍change-sail-address-company-with-old-address-new-addressaddress · AD02
- 2022-03-24📄termination-director-company-with-name-termination-dateofficers · TM01
- 2022-03-24📄termination-secretary-company-with-name-termination-dateofficers · TM02
- 2022-03-24📄termination-director-company-with-name-termination-dateofficers · TM01
- 2022-03-24📄termination-director-company-with-name-termination-dateofficers · TM01
- 2022-03-24📄termination-secretary-company-with-name-termination-dateofficers · TM02
- 2022-03-24📄appoint-person-director-company-with-name-dateofficers · AP01
- 2022-03-24📄appoint-person-director-company-with-name-dateofficers · AP01
- 2022-03-08➕AVERLEY, Richard appointeddirector
- 2022-03-08➕CULLEN, Patrick Gabriel appointeddirector
- 2022-03-08➖JEFFERSON, Ruth Esme resignedsecretary
- 2022-03-08➖QUAYSECO LIMITED resignedcorporate-secretary
- 2022-03-08➖HAYWARD, Barry Philip resigneddirector
- 2022-03-08➕LINDOP, Gareth Robert appointeddirector
- 2022-03-08➖MAHER, Charlotte Tamsyn resigneddirector
- 2022-03-08➖WATTS, Mark Timothy resigneddirector
- 2022-03-08🔒Charge registered #4Lender: Wessex Water Limited
- 2022-02-18🔓Charge satisfied #1
- 2021-04-15➖ELLIOTT, David John resigneddirector
- 2021-04-13🔓Charge satisfied #2
- 2021-04-08➖BRYAN, Jeremy Robert resigneddirector
- 2021-04-08➖KNAGGS, David Alan resigneddirector
- 2021-03-30➖KING, Gareth Alan resigneddirector
- 2020-08-31➖DE VIAL, Luke Martin resigneddirector
- 2020-08-31➕HAYWARD, Barry Philip appointeddirector
- 2020-04-01➕MAHER, Charlotte Tamsyn appointeddirector
- 2020-03-31➖SADDIQ, Mohammed Habedat resigneddirector
- 2018-12-03➕JEFFERSON, Ruth Esme appointedsecretary
- 2018-11-30➖FISHER-HOYLE, Leigh resignedsecretary
- 2017-10-31➕ELLIOTT, David John appointeddirector
- 2017-10-31➖OKOYE, Julian Jonathan Onochie resigneddirector
- 2017-08-16➖CHAMBERS, Christopher Antony resigneddirector
- 2017-08-16➕WATTS, Mark Timothy appointeddirector
Showing most recent 50 of 97 events
Owner dependency
58/100
Moderate — manageable with handoverSome founder dependency, but not acute. A structured handover period should cover most risk.
FACTORS
- +Senior director age: Director aged approximately 59 — approaching natural succession window.
Succession & seller-readiness
50/100
Moderate signalSome succession indicators present. Worth watching; approach if sector/strategy fits.
SIGNALS
- secondaryFounder aged 58+: Senior director is approximately 59. Early succession window.
- secondaryStable-but-static management: Company is 31 years old and no new directors in the last 3 years — succession not yet being planned internally.
Red flags
1 med ·Charge satisfaction-then-recreation pattern
mediumMultiple instances where a charge was satisfied and a new charge created within 6 months. Suggests active refinancing cycle.
Group structure
Albion Water Holdings Limited is the ultimate parent — holding 75%+ shares. This company sits inside their group.
🏛️ultimate parent
Albion Water Holdings Limited
Corporate parent · holds 75-100% shares · board control
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ALBION WATER LIMITED
This company · 03102176
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%| Name | Shares | Voting rights | Nature of control | Notified |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Albion Water Holdings Limited Corporate entity | 75–100% | 75–100% | board control75-100% shares · 75-100% voting · board control | 08/03/2022 |
3 historic (ceased) PSCs
- Wessex Water Limitedceased 08/03/2022· 75-100% shares · 75-100% voting · board control
- Waterlevel Limitedceased 08/04/2021· 25-50% shares · 25-50% voting
- Albion Water Group Limitedceased 01/12/2016· 75-100% shares · 75-100% voting · board control
From Companies House Persons with Significant Control filings. Share ranges are banded per the public PSC regime.
🔒Co-director network graph
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6 specific questions generated from this company's actual signals — liquidity, leverage, director age, charge count, red flags, age-of-company.
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See pricing →Company details
Statusactive
Typeltd
Incorporated1995-09-14
Jurisdictionengland-wales
Primary SIC36000 — SIC 36000
Registered office
Goodwood House
Blackbrook Park Avenue
Taunton
Somerset
TA1 2PX
United Kingdom
Filing status
Accounts
Next due: 2026-12-31
Last made up to: 2025-03-31
Confirmation statement
Next due: 2027-04-29
Last: 2026-04-15
Officers (3 active · 32 resigned)
AVERLEY, Richard→
Activedirector · ~50y · appointed 2022-03-08
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CULLEN, Patrick Gabriel→
Activedirector · ~59y · appointed 2022-03-08
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Active
BEARE, Kevin Leslie→
Resignedsecretary · appointed 2013-10-31 · resigned 2014-12-31
BROWN, Scott James→
Resignedsecretary · appointed 2014-12-31 · resigned 2016-09-22
BRYAN, Jeremy Robert→
Resignedsecretary · appointed 1995-10-19 · resigned 1997-08-31
FISHER-HOYLE, Leigh→
Resignedsecretary · appointed 2016-09-22 · resigned 2018-11-30
JEFFERSON, Ruth Esme→
Resignedsecretary · appointed 2018-12-03 · resigned 2022-03-08
RAMSAY, Andrew→
Resignedsecretary · appointed 1997-08-31 · resigned 2001-02-01
WOODIER, Kenneth David→
Resignedsecretary · appointed 2001-02-01 · resigned 2004-02-19
APEX COMPANY SERVICES LIMITED→
Resignedcorporate-nominee-secretary · appointed 1995-09-14 · resigned 1995-10-19
JAMESTOWN INVESTMENTS LIMITED→
Resignedcorporate-secretary · appointed 2004-02-19 · resigned 2013-10-31
QUAYSECO LIMITED→
Resignedcorporate-secretary · appointed 2016-10-17 · resigned 2022-03-08
BATY, Robert John→
Resigneddirector · ~82y · appointed 2003-05-06 · resigned 2004-02-19
BRADLEY, Stephen John→
Resigneddirector · ~67y · appointed 2014-02-11 · resigned 2015-11-20
BRYAN, Jeremy Robert→
Resigneddirector · ~75y · appointed 2004-02-19 · resigned 2021-04-08
BRYAN, Jeremy Robert→
Resigneddirector · ~75y · appointed 1995-10-19 · resigned 2003-05-06
CHAMBERS, Christopher Antony→
Resigneddirector · ~62y · appointed 2016-09-22 · resigned 2017-08-16
DE VIAL, Luke Martin→
Resigneddirector · ~61y · appointed 2016-09-22 · resigned 2020-08-31
ELLIOTT, David John→
Resigneddirector · ~66y · appointed 2017-10-31 · resigned 2021-04-15
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Mortgages & charges
5
Total charges
1
Outstanding
1
Active lenders
Status:Lender:5 of 5 shown
| Type | Properties | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| outstanding | HSBC Hsbc UK Bank PLC | A registered charge | 1 property | 19/07/2022 | — | |
| satisfied | Wessex Water Wessex Water Limited | A registered charge | 9 properties | 08/03/2022 | 26/09/2025 | |
| satisfied | Wessex Water Wessex Water Limited | A registered charge | — | 22/09/2016 | 19/05/2023 | |
| satisfied | Albion Water Group Albion Water Group Limited | A registered charge | — | 22/09/2016 | 13/04/2021 | |
| satisfied | Barclays Barclays Bank PLC | Deed of charge over credit balances | 1 property | 06/11/2009 | 18/02/2022 |
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Recent filings (181 total)
confirmation-statement-with-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2026-04-15
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2025-12-23
mortgage-satisfy-charge-full
mortgage · MR04
2025-09-26
change-to-a-person-with-significant-control
persons-with-significant-control · PSC05
2025-08-04
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2025-06-10
confirmation-statement-with-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2025-04-28
change-account-reference-date-company-previous-shortened
accounts · AA01
2025-03-13
change-registered-office-address-company-with-date-old-address-new-address
address · AD01
2024-11-21
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2024-04-29
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2024-03-28
mortgage-satisfy-charge-full
mortgage · MR04
2023-05-19
confirmation-statement-with-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2023-04-24
accounts-with-accounts-type-small
accounts · AA
2023-03-31
appoint-person-director-company-with-name-date
officers · AP01
2023-03-14
termination-director-company-with-name-termination-date
officers · TM01
2023-03-14