ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN AND PLANNING LIMITED

💤Zombieactive
05451292 · ltd · incorporated 2005-05-12
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
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year to May 2025
Net worth
£48.6k
book net assets
Opportunity
80/100
Exceptional
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What this business does
Primary activity: Other engineering activities
Sector: Professional, scientific & technical
Investor take
Pursue
Asset-holding vehicle with a 75-year-old founder — textbook succession opportunity.

Opportunity 80/100 (exceptional), bankability 75/100. Strong seller-intent signal (83/100, director aged 75). 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).

Data confidence

Overall: medium (77/100)

Adequate coverage. AI outputs are reliable for the sections scored high; verify the rest in diligence.

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
Confirmed no charges registered
85
Directors & officers
4 officers (1 active, 4 linked, 1 with DOB)
75
Ownership & PSC
1 active PSC(s) of 1 total, 1 with control declared
90
Director network
1 connected companies via shared directors
48
Filing history
74 filings on record
85
Gazette notices
No matching gazette notices (standard for active companies)
60
Opportunity Score
80/100Exceptional
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
90
Good data coverage for analysis.

Signals from accounts

Derived from iXBRL accounts · accounting standard not declared
Positive net assets
Net assets £48,586

Key financials

2 years extracted from filed iXBRL accounts
Cash
—
Net Worth
£49k
↑ 61% YoY
Current Assets
£54k
↑ 62% YoY
Current Liabilities
—
£0£11k£21k£32k£43k£54kMay 2024May 2025

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Financials

Extracted from Companies House accounts · accounting standard unknown
Metric2025-05-312024-05-31
Total assets£51.1k£33.5k
Current assets£53.7k£33.2k
Net assets£48.6k£30.1k

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
0
filings
Last 90 days
2
filings
  • • 1 confirmation-statement
  • • 1 accounts
Last 180 days
2
filings
  • • 1 confirmation-statement
  • • 1 accounts
Counts from Companies House filing history.
Corporate timeline (23 events)Click to expand
  1. 2026-02-26
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
    accounts · AA
  2. 2025-02-20
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
    accounts · AA
  3. 2023-12-20
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
    accounts · AA
  4. 2023-09-15
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    change-sail-address-company-with-old-address-new-address
    address · AD02
  5. 2022-12-23
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
    accounts · AA
  6. 2022-02-28
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
    accounts · AA
  7. 2021-05-12
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    change-to-a-person-with-significant-control
    persons-with-significant-control · PSC04
  8. 2021-05-07
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    change-person-director-company-with-change-date
    officers · CH01
  9. 2021-05-07
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    change-person-director-company-with-change-date
    officers · CH01
  10. 2021-05-07
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    change-to-a-person-with-significant-control
    persons-with-significant-control · PSC04
  11. 2020-09-30
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
    accounts · AA
  12. 2020-08-04
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    change-registered-office-address-company-with-date-old-address-new-address
    address · AD01
  13. 2020-01-27
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
    accounts · AA
  14. 2019-02-28
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
    accounts · AA
  15. 2018-01-11
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
    accounts · AA
  16. 2015-11-12
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    REED, Angela Jane resigned
    secretary
  17. 2005-05-12
    🏢
    Company incorporated
    As ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN AND PLANNING LIMITED
  18. 2005-05-12
    ➕
    REED, Christopher appointed
    director
  19. 2005-05-12
    ➕
    REED, Angela Jane appointed
    secretary
  20. 2005-05-12
    ➕
    YORK PLACE COMPANY SECRETARIES LIMITED appointed
    corporate-nominee-secretary
  21. 2005-05-12
    ➖
    YORK PLACE COMPANY SECRETARIES LIMITED resigned
    corporate-nominee-secretary
  22. 2005-05-12
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    YORK PLACE COMPANY NOMINEES LIMITED appointed
    corporate-nominee-director
  23. 2005-05-12
    ➖
    YORK PLACE COMPANY NOMINEES LIMITED resigned
    corporate-nominee-director

Owner dependency

100/100
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.
  • +Long-tenure founder: Senior director has been in place 21 years — deep operational knowledge concentrated in one person.
  • +Founder age: Director aged approximately 75 — succession pressure is live.

Succession & seller-readiness

100/100
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 75 years old. Natural succession window is now.
  • primarySole active director: Only one director in control. No visible successor — buyers solve the succession problem.
  • primary20+ year tenure: Director in role 21 years. Very long tenure is a classic succession signal.
  • secondaryStable-but-static management: Company is 21 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.)

Shareholders & ownership

1 active beneficial owner · dominant holder ≥75%
NameSharesVoting rightsNature of controlNotified
Mr Christopher Reed
Individual · British · DOB 06/1951 · age 75
75–100%
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.

🔒Co-director network graph

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8 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
Incorporated2005-05-12
Jurisdictionengland-wales
Primary SIC71129 — Other engineering activities

Registered office

Lantern House
Market Place
Alston
Cumbria
CA9 3HS
United Kingdom

Filing status

Accounts
Next due: 2027-02-28
Last made up to: 2025-05-31
Confirmation statement
Next due: 2027-04-16
Last: 2026-04-02

Officers (1 active · 3 resigned)

REED, Christopher→
director · ~75y · appointed 2005-05-12
View their other companies + combined net worth →
Active
REED, Angela Jane→
secretary · appointed 2005-05-12 · resigned 2015-11-12
Resigned
YORK PLACE COMPANY SECRETARIES LIMITED→
corporate-nominee-secretary · appointed 2005-05-12 · resigned 2005-05-12
Resigned
YORK PLACE COMPANY NOMINEES LIMITED→
corporate-nominee-director · appointed 2005-05-12 · resigned 2005-05-12
Resigned

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Recent filings (74 total)

confirmation-statement-with-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2026-04-17
accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
accounts · AA
2026-02-26
confirmation-statement-with-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2025-04-16
accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
accounts · AA
2025-02-20
confirmation-statement-with-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2024-04-08
accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
accounts · AA
2023-12-20
change-sail-address-company-with-old-address-new-address
address · AD02
2023-09-15
confirmation-statement-with-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2023-04-20
accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
accounts · AA
2022-12-23
confirmation-statement-with-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2022-04-26
accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
accounts · AA
2022-02-28
change-to-a-person-with-significant-control
persons-with-significant-control · PSC04
2021-05-12
confirmation-statement-with-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2021-05-11
change-person-director-company-with-change-date
officers · CH01
2021-05-07
change-person-director-company-with-change-date
officers · CH01
2021-05-07