DUTCH HOUSE CARAVAN PARKS LIMITED
🌳Matureactive
SC058667 · ltd · incorporated 1975-09-29
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 42.4y old — refinance window within 12 months
🔒Estimated value
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Turnover
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year to Sept 2024
Net worth
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Opportunity
82/100
Exceptional
What this business does
Primary activity: Activities of head offices
Sector: Professional, scientific & technical
Investor take
PursueActive trading company with a 87-year-old founder — textbook succession opportunity.
Opportunity 82/100 (exceptional), bankability 70/100. Strong seller-intent signal (83/100, director aged 87). Share purchase looks the cleaner deal structure. Biggest value-creation lever: Discharge stale live charges. 4 live charge(s) created 15+ years ago — likely paid but undischarged. Clean register. Most likely exit: share sale to pe / searcher (73/100).
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Refinance opportunity
4 live charges · oldest 42.4y
65/100
clean up first
Refinance viable after a tidy-up — address the highlighted items first.
- · Oldest live charge is 42.4 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: medium (79/100)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
4 charges (4/4 with lender, 4/4 with type)
90
Directors & officers
4 officers (2 active, 4 linked, 3 with DOB)
85
Ownership & PSC
2 active PSC(s) of 3 total, 3 with control declared
90
Director network
1 connected companies via shared directors
48
Filing history
117 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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Financials
Extracted from Companies House accounts · accounting standard unknown| Metric | 2024-09-30 | 2023-09-30 |
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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
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filings
Last 180 days
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filing
- • 1 confirmation-statement
Counts from Companies House filing history.
Corporate timeline (27 events)Click to expand
- 2025-03-17📄accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-fullaccounts · AA
- 2025-01-21📄change-to-a-person-with-significant-controlpersons-with-significant-control · PSC04
- 2025-01-21📄change-to-a-person-with-significant-controlpersons-with-significant-control · PSC04
- 2025-01-15📄change-to-a-person-with-significant-controlpersons-with-significant-control · PSC04
- 2025-01-14📄notification-of-a-person-with-significant-controlpersons-with-significant-control · PSC01
- 2024-06-24📄accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-fullaccounts · AA
- 2024-01-08📄change-person-director-company-with-change-dateofficers · CH01
- 2023-06-19📄accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-fullaccounts · AA
- 2023-04-28📄change-person-director-company-with-change-dateofficers · CH01
- 2023-04-28📄change-person-director-company-with-change-dateofficers · CH01
- 2022-08-24📄cessation-of-a-person-with-significant-controlpersons-with-significant-control · PSC07
- 2022-08-24📍change-registered-office-address-company-with-date-old-address-new-addressaddress · AD01
- 2022-05-13📄accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-fullaccounts · AA
- 2021-06-30📄accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-fullaccounts · AA
- 2021-05-04📄change-person-director-company-with-change-dateofficers · CH01
- 2021-04-30📄gazette-filings-brought-up-to-dategazette · DISS40
- 2021-04-20📄gazette-notice-compulsorygazette · GAZ1
- 2021-02-19📄termination-secretary-company-with-name-termination-dateofficers · TM02
- 2021-02-19📄termination-director-company-with-name-termination-dateofficers · TM01
- 2020-07-16➖ROBERTS, Robina Sutherland resignedsecretary
- 2020-07-16➖ROBERTS, Robina Sutherland resigneddirector
- 1997-08-11🔒Charge registered #5Lender: Clydesdale Bank Public Limited Company
- 1989-03-31➕ROBERTS, Scott Weir appointeddirector
- 1983-12-12🔒Charge registered #4Lender: Clydesdale Bank Public Limited Company
- 1983-12-12🔒Charge registered #3Lender: Clydesdale Bank Public Limited Company
- 1983-12-12🔒Charge registered #2Lender: Clydesdale Bank Public Limited Company
- 1975-09-29🏢Company incorporatedAs DUTCH HOUSE CARAVAN PARKS LIMITED
Owner dependency
91/100
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 37 years — deep operational knowledge concentrated in one person.
- +Founder age: Director aged approximately 87 — succession pressure is live.
- +Family involvement: Multiple officers share a surname — likely family business, which concentrates governance.
Succession & seller-readiness
96/100
Likely off-market candidateStrong acquirability signals converging. Worth approaching directly — this is how off-market deals start.
SIGNALS
- primaryFounder aged 70+: Senior director is approximately 87 years old. Natural succession window is now.
- secondaryTwo-director governance: Small-team governance. Succession depth is thin but not absent.
- primary20+ year tenure: Director in role 37 years. Very long tenure is a classic succession signal.
- secondaryStable-but-static management: Company is 51 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 Scott Weir Roberts Individual · British · DOB 12/1965 · age 61 | 25–50% | 25–50% | 25-50% shares · 25-50% voting · trust interest | 01/06/2022 |
Gilbert Sharp Roberts Individual · British · DOB 05/1939 · age 87 | 25–50% | 25–50% | 25-50% shares · 25-50% voting · trust interest | 01/07/2016 |
1 historic (ceased) PSC
- Robina Sutherland Robertsceased 16/07/2020· 25-50% shares · 25-50% voting · trust interest
From Companies House Persons with Significant Control filings. Share ranges are banded per the public PSC regime.
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See pricing →Company details
Statusactive
Typeltd
Incorporated1975-09-29
Jurisdictionscotland
Primary SIC70100 — Activities of head offices
Registered office
Alexanders
Brodick
Isle Of Arran
KA27 8AJ
Scotland
Filing status
Accounts
Next due: 2026-06-30
Last made up to: 2024-09-30
Confirmation statement
Next due: 2027-01-15
Last: 2026-01-01
Officers (2 active · 2 resigned)
Active
ROBERTS, Scott Weir→
Activedirector · ~61y · appointed 1989-03-31
View their other companies + combined net worth →
ROBERTS, Robina Sutherland→
Resignedsecretary · resigned 2020-07-16
ROBERTS, Robina Sutherland→
Resigneddirector · ~90y · resigned 2020-07-16
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Mortgages & charges
4
Total charges
4
Outstanding
1
Active lenders
Status:Lender:4 of 4 shown
| Type | Properties | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| outstanding | Virgin Money Clydesdale Bank Public Limited Company | Floating charge | 1 property | 11/08/1997 | — | |
| outstanding | Virgin Money Clydesdale Bank Public Limited Company | Standard security | 1 property | 12/12/1983 | — | |
| outstanding | Virgin Money Clydesdale Bank Public Limited Company | Standard security | 1 property | 12/12/1983 | — | |
| outstanding | Virgin Money Clydesdale Bank Public Limited Company | Standard security | 1 property | 12/12/1983 | — |
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Recent filings (117 total)
confirmation-statement-with-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2026-01-12
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2025-03-17
confirmation-statement-with-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2025-01-22
change-to-a-person-with-significant-control
persons-with-significant-control · PSC04
2025-01-21
change-to-a-person-with-significant-control
persons-with-significant-control · PSC04
2025-01-21
change-to-a-person-with-significant-control
persons-with-significant-control · PSC04
2025-01-15
notification-of-a-person-with-significant-control
persons-with-significant-control · PSC01
2025-01-14
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2024-06-24
confirmation-statement-with-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2024-01-22
change-person-director-company-with-change-date
officers · CH01
2024-01-08
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2023-06-19
change-person-director-company-with-change-date
officers · CH01
2023-04-28
change-person-director-company-with-change-date
officers · CH01
2023-04-28
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2023-02-15
cessation-of-a-person-with-significant-control
persons-with-significant-control · PSC07
2022-08-24