ADDINGTON PLANT SERVICES LIMITED
🌳Matureactive
10030352 · ltd · incorporated 2016-02-27
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 6.8y old — refinance window within 12 months
🔒Estimated value
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Turnover
£488.9k
year to Aug 2024
Net worth
—
book net assets
Opportunity
80/100
Exceptional
What this business does
Primary activity: Renting and leasing of construction and civil engineering machinery and equipment
Sector: Administrative & support services
Investor take
PursueActive trading company with a 83-year-old founder — textbook succession opportunity.
Opportunity 80/100 (exceptional), bankability 80/100. Strong seller-intent signal (63/100, director aged 83). Share purchase looks the cleaner deal structure. Most likely exit: share sale to pe / searcher (65/100).
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Refinance opportunity
1 live charge · oldest 6.8y
85/100
ready
Refinance conversation should be productive — structure clean and timing right.
- · Oldest live charge is 6.8 years old — likely at or near maturity.
- · Single lender — cleanest path to refinance.
- · Legal-friction score 15/100 — clean.
Data confidence
Overall: high (83/100)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
1 charges (1/1 with lender, 1/1 with type)
90
Directors & officers
3 officers (3 active, 3 linked, 3 with DOB)
90
Ownership & PSC
2 active PSC(s) of 4 total, 4 with control declared
90
Director network
12 connected companies via shared directors
81
Filing history
32 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.
Available from the Pro tier upwards.
See pricing →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
75
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
—
Current Assets
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Current Liabilities
—
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Financials
Extracted from Companies House accounts · FRS 102| Metric | 2024-08-31 | 2023-08-31 |
|---|---|---|
| Turnover | £488.9k | £502.0k |
| Gross profit | £193.8k | £135.7k |
| Operating profit | £153.2k | £107.9k |
| Average employees | 300 | 300 |
Amounts extracted automatically from iXBRL. Fields left blank were not reported or not mapped. Values in GBP unless stated.
🔒Filing-note intelligence
3 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
1
filing
- • 1 accounts
Last 90 days
1
filing
- • 1 accounts
Last 180 days
5
filings
- • 3 persons-with-significant-control
- • 1 accounts
- • 1 confirmation-statement
Counts from Companies House filing history.
Corporate timeline (21 events)Click to expand
- 2026-06-05📄accounts-with-accounts-type-fullaccounts · AA
- 2026-03-05📄notification-of-a-person-with-significant-controlpersons-with-significant-control · PSC01
- 2026-03-05📄notification-of-a-person-with-significant-controlpersons-with-significant-control · PSC01
- 2026-03-05📄cessation-of-a-person-with-significant-controlpersons-with-significant-control · PSC07
- 2025-05-27📄accounts-with-accounts-type-fullaccounts · AA
- 2024-05-23📄accounts-with-accounts-type-fullaccounts · AA
- 2023-06-13📄change-person-director-company-with-change-dateofficers · CH01
- 2023-05-30📄accounts-with-accounts-type-smallaccounts · AA
- 2022-05-26📄accounts-with-accounts-type-smallaccounts · AA
- 2021-06-09📄accounts-with-accounts-type-smallaccounts · AA
- 2020-05-27📄accounts-with-accounts-type-fullaccounts · AA
- 2019-09-13📄mortgage-create-with-deed-with-charge-number-charge-creation-datemortgage · MR01
- 2019-09-03🔒Charge registered #1Lender: Santander UK PLC
- 2019-04-08📄accounts-with-accounts-type-smallaccounts · AA
- 2018-06-07📄notification-of-a-person-with-significant-controlpersons-with-significant-control · PSC02
- 2018-06-07📄cessation-of-a-person-with-significant-controlpersons-with-significant-control · PSC07
- 2018-05-11📄accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-fullaccounts · AA
- 2016-02-27🏢Company incorporatedAs ADDINGTON PLANT SERVICES LIMITED
- 2016-02-27➕CORCORAN, Michael Noel, Mr. appointeddirector
- 2016-02-27➕CORCORAN, Noel Michael appointeddirector
- 2016-02-27➕CORCORAN, Sean Robert appointeddirector
Owner dependency
73/100
High — earn-out structure requiredMaterial founder dependency. Consider a 2-3 year earn-out and build in a handover plan before completion.
FACTORS
- +Founder age: Director aged approximately 83 — succession pressure is live.
- +Family involvement: Multiple officers share a surname — likely family business, which concentrates governance.
Succession & seller-readiness
65/100
Strong succession signalMultiple signals suggest succession is on the horizon. Candidate for proactive outreach.
SIGNALS
- primaryFounder aged 70+: Senior director is approximately 83 years old. Natural succession window is now.
- 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Mr. Michael Noel Corcoran Individual · Irish · DOB 12/1943 · age 83 | 25–50% | 25–50% | board control25-50% shares · 25-50% voting · board control · trust interest | 31/10/2025 |
Mrs. Nora Bernadette Corcoran Individual · Irish · DOB 02/1944 · age 82 | 25–50% | 25–50% | board control25-50% shares · 25-50% voting · board control · trust interest | 31/10/2025 |
2 historic (ceased) PSCs
- Addington Group Limitedceased 31/10/2025· 75-100% shares
- Mr Micheal Corcoranceased 01/06/2018· significant influence
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.
Available from the Pro tier upwards.
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Peers ranked by estimated value, then turnover, then opportunity score.See all →
🔒Tailored diligence questions
7 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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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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See pricing →Company details
Statusactive
Typeltd
Incorporated2016-02-27
Jurisdictionengland-wales
Primary SIC77320 — Renting and leasing of construction and civil engineering machinery and equipment
Registered office
40 Chamberlayne Road
London
NW10 3JE
England
Filing status
Accounts
Next due: 2027-05-31
Last made up to: 2025-08-31
Confirmation statement
Next due: 2027-03-23
Last: 2026-03-09
Officers (3 active · 0 resigned)
CORCORAN, Michael Noel, Mr.→
Activedirector · ~83y · appointed 2016-02-27
View their other companies + combined net worth →
CORCORAN, Noel Michael→
Activedirector · ~56y · appointed 2016-02-27
View their other companies + combined net worth →
CORCORAN, Sean Robert→
Activedirector · ~47y · appointed 2016-02-27
View their other companies + combined net worth →
Click a director name to see their full track record across all companies.
Mortgages & charges
1
Total charges
1
Outstanding
1
Active lenders
Status:Lender:1 of 1 shown
| Type | Properties | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| outstanding | Santander Santander UK PLC | A registered charge | 1 property | 03/09/2019 | — |
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Recent filings (32 total)
accounts-with-accounts-type-full
accounts · AA
2026-06-05
confirmation-statement-with-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2026-03-11
notification-of-a-person-with-significant-control
persons-with-significant-control · PSC01
2026-03-05
notification-of-a-person-with-significant-control
persons-with-significant-control · PSC01
2026-03-05
cessation-of-a-person-with-significant-control
persons-with-significant-control · PSC07
2026-03-05
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2025-06-12
accounts-with-accounts-type-full
accounts · AA
2025-05-27
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2024-06-11
accounts-with-accounts-type-full
accounts · AA
2024-05-23
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2023-06-14
change-person-director-company-with-change-date
officers · CH01
2023-06-13
accounts-with-accounts-type-small
accounts · AA
2023-05-30
confirmation-statement-with-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2022-06-15
accounts-with-accounts-type-small
accounts · AA
2022-05-26
confirmation-statement-with-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2021-06-11