AQUA ENGINEERING SOLUTIONS LIMITED
🌳Matureactive
03988409 · ltd · incorporated 2000-05-09
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 24.0y old — refinance window within 12 months
🔒Estimated value
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Turnover
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year to Aug 2024
Net worth
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book net assets
Opportunity
82/100
Exceptional
What this business does
Primary activity: SIC 36000
Sector: Water supply & waste
Investor take
PursueActive trading company with a 64-year-old founder — textbook succession opportunity.
Opportunity 82/100 (exceptional), bankability 80/100. Strong seller-intent signal (70/100, director aged 64). Share purchase looks the cleaner deal structure. Biggest value-creation lever: Discharge stale live charges. 2 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
2 live charges · oldest 24.0y
65/100
clean up first
Refinance viable after a tidy-up — address the highlighted items first.
- · Oldest live charge is 24.0 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 (81/100)Strong data coverage across all sections. AI outputs should be trusted with minimal caveats.
Company profile
address, 1 SIC codes, incorporation date
100
Financials
2 years of iXBRL accounts extracted (YoY deltas available) + narrative notes parsed
75
Lenders & charges
2 charges (2/2 with lender, 2/2 with type)
90
Directors & officers
4 officers (3 active, 4 linked, 2 with DOB)
80
Ownership & PSC
2 active PSC(s) of 2 total, 2 with control declared
90
Director network
10 connected companies via shared directors
75
Filing history
70 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.
Key financials
2 years extracted from filed iXBRL accountsCash
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Net Worth
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Current Assets
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Current Liabilities
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Financials
Extracted from Companies House accounts · accounting standard unknown| Metric | 2024-08-31 | 2023-08-31 |
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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.
Available from the Pro tier upwards.
See pricing →Recent activity
Last 30 days
0
filings
Last 90 days
3
filings
- • 3 officers
Last 180 days
3
filings
- • 3 officers
Counts from Companies House filing history.
Corporate timeline (24 events)Click to expand
- 2026-02-26📄change-person-director-company-with-change-dateofficers · CH01
- 2026-02-26📄change-person-director-company-with-change-dateofficers · CH01
- 2026-02-26📄change-person-secretary-company-with-change-dateofficers · CH03
- 2025-06-02📍change-registered-office-address-company-with-date-old-address-new-addressaddress · AD01
- 2025-03-20📄accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-fullaccounts · AA
- 2024-03-07📄accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entityaccounts · AA
- 2023-01-17📄accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entityaccounts · AA
- 2022-03-10✏️certificate-change-of-name-companychange-of-name · CERTNM
- 2022-03-09📍change-registered-office-address-company-with-date-old-address-new-addressaddress · AD01
- 2022-02-07📄accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-fullaccounts · AA
- 2021-05-27📄accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-fullaccounts · AA
- 2020-03-09📄accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entityaccounts · AA
- 2019-05-14📄accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entityaccounts · AA
- 2018-08-03📍change-registered-office-address-company-with-date-old-address-new-addressaddress · AD01
- 2018-05-31📄accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entityaccounts · AA
- 2018-02-26📄change-account-reference-date-company-previous-extendedaccounts · AA01
- 2012-09-20➕BRAYSHAW, David Ivan appointeddirector
- 2010-03-22🔒Charge registered #2Lender: Hsbc Bank PLC
- 2002-05-07🔒Charge registered #1Lender: Hsbc Bank PLC
- 2000-05-09🏢Company incorporatedAs AQUA ENGINEERING SOLUTIONS LIMITED
- 2000-05-09➕BRAYSHAW, David appointedsecretary
- 2000-05-09➕BRAYSHAW, Carla Dianne appointeddirector
- 2000-05-09➕CHETTLEBURGH INTERNATIONAL LIMITED appointedcorporate-nominee-secretary
- 2000-05-09➖CHETTLEBURGH INTERNATIONAL LIMITED resignedcorporate-nominee-secretary
Owner dependency
84/100
Critical — business is the founderThe business appears inseparable from the founder. Acquisition without a serious earn-out or meaningful transition period would likely destroy value.
FACTORS
- +Two-director setup: Only two active directors — typical of owner-managed SMEs but limits succession.
- +Long-tenure founder: Senior director has been in place 26 years — deep operational knowledge concentrated in one person.
- +Senior director age: Director aged approximately 64 — approaching natural succession window.
- +Family involvement: Multiple officers share a surname — likely family business, which concentrates governance.
Succession & seller-readiness
86/100
Likely off-market candidateStrong acquirability signals converging. Worth approaching directly — this is how off-market deals start.
SIGNALS
- primaryFounder aged 63+: Senior director is approximately 64. Approaching typical UK retirement age — succession thinking likely.
- secondaryTwo-director governance: Small-team governance. Succession depth is thin but not absent.
- primary20+ year tenure: Director in role 26 years. Very long tenure is a classic succession signal.
- secondaryStable-but-static management: Company is 26 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
cleanNo red flags detected from available public data. (This is not a clean bill of health — detailed accounts review still recommended.)
Shareholders & ownership
2 active beneficial owners| Name | Shares | Voting rights | Nature of control | Notified |
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Mr David Brayshaw Individual · British · DOB 03/1962 · age 64 | 25–50% | — | 25-50% shares | 06/04/2016 |
Mrs Carla Brayshaw Individual · British · DOB 01/1966 · age 60 | 25–50% | — | 25-50% shares | 06/04/2016 |
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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Peers ranked by estimated value, then turnover, then opportunity score.See all →
🔒Tailored diligence questions
6 specific questions generated from this company's actual signals — liquidity, leverage, director age, charge count, red flags, age-of-company.
Available from the Pro tier upwards.
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See pricing →Company details
Statusactive
Typeltd
Incorporated2000-05-09
Jurisdictionengland-wales
Primary SIC36000 — SIC 36000
Registered office
1-3-5 The Barracks
White Cross
Lancaster
Lancashire
LA1 4XQ
England
Filing status
Accounts
Next due: 2026-05-31
Last made up to: 2024-08-31
Confirmation statement
Next due: 2026-06-01
Last: 2025-05-18
Officers (3 active · 1 resigned)
Active
BRAYSHAW, Carla Dianne→
Activedirector · ~60y · appointed 2000-05-09
View their other companies + combined net worth →
BRAYSHAW, David Ivan→
Activedirector · ~64y · appointed 2012-09-20
View their other companies + combined net worth →
CHETTLEBURGH INTERNATIONAL LIMITED→
Resignedcorporate-nominee-secretary · appointed 2000-05-09 · resigned 2000-05-09
Click a director name to see their full track record across all companies.
Mortgages & charges
2
Total charges
2
Outstanding
1
Active lenders
Status:Lender:2 of 2 shown
| Type | Properties | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| outstanding | HSBC Hsbc Bank PLC | Legal mortgage | 2 properties | 22/03/2010 | — | |
| outstanding | HSBC Hsbc Bank PLC | Debenture | 1 property | 07/05/2002 | — |
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Recent filings (70 total)
change-person-director-company-with-change-date
officers · CH01
2026-02-26
change-person-director-company-with-change-date
officers · CH01
2026-02-26
change-person-secretary-company-with-change-date
officers · CH03
2026-02-26
change-registered-office-address-company-with-date-old-address-new-address
address · AD01
2025-06-02
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2025-05-30
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2025-03-20
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2024-05-21
accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
accounts · AA
2024-03-07
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2023-06-01
accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
accounts · AA
2023-01-17
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2022-05-23
certificate-change-of-name-company
change-of-name · CERTNM
2022-03-10
change-registered-office-address-company-with-date-old-address-new-address
address · AD01
2022-03-09
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2022-02-07
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2021-06-01