BROOKLANDS ENERGY LIMITED

🌳Matureactive
SC167979 · ltd · incorporated 1996-08-29
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.
🔒Estimated value
—
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Turnover
—
year to Dec 2024
Net worth
£-5.6k
book net assets
Opportunity
80/100
Exceptional
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What this business does
Primary activity: Engineering related scientific and technical consulting activities
Sector: Professional, scientific & technical
Investor take
Pass (distressed without resilience)
Distressed active trading company — structural issues outweigh the discount.

Opportunity 80/100 (exceptional), bankability 75/100. Strong seller-intent signal (83/100, director aged 74). Share purchase looks the cleaner deal structure. Most likely exit: share sale to pe / searcher (65/100).

Data confidence

Overall: medium (76/100)

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
5 officers (3 active, 5 linked, 2 with DOB)
78
Ownership & PSC
2 active PSC(s) of 2 total, 2 with control declared
90
Director network
Network not yet resolved
30
Filing history
73 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
Negative net assets
Liabilities exceed assets by £5,602
Very low cash
Cash position: £18
Cash YoY
+0%
Year on year

Key financials

2 years extracted from filed iXBRL accounts
Cash
£18
~ YoY
Net Worth
-£6k
~ YoY
Current Assets
—
Current Liabilities
—
-£6k-£4k-£3k-£2k-£1k£18Dec 2023Dec 2024

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Financials

Extracted from Companies House accounts · accounting standard unknown
Metric2024-12-312023-12-31
Total assets£-5.6k£-5.6k
Cash£18£18
Net assets£-5.6k£-5.6k

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.

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Recent activity

Last 30 days
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Counts from Companies House filing history.
Corporate timeline (23 events)Click to expand
  1. 2025-09-25
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  2. 2024-06-18
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  3. 2023-09-12
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  4. 2022-04-11
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-dormant
    accounts · AA
  5. 2021-09-30
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  6. 2020-06-01
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  7. 2019-05-28
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  8. 2018-09-28
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  9. 2017-09-18
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  10. 2016-09-19
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-small
    accounts · AA
  11. 2015-09-23
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-small
    accounts · AA
  12. 2015-09-23
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    annual-return-company-with-made-up-date-full-list-shareholders
    annual-return · AR01
  13. 2014-09-17
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    annual-return · AR01
  14. 2014-05-12
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-small
    accounts · AA
  15. 2013-09-04
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-small
    accounts · AA
  16. 1996-08-29
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    Company incorporated
    As BROOKLANDS ENERGY LIMITED
  17. 1996-08-29
    ➕
    LOWSON, Denise Mary appointed
    secretary
  18. 1996-08-29
    ➕
    LOWSON, Allan Ramsay appointed
    director
  19. 1996-08-29
    ➕
    LOWSON, Denise Mary appointed
    director
  20. 1996-08-29
    ➕
    FIRST SCOTTISH SECRETARIES LIMITED appointed
    corporate-nominee-secretary
  21. 1996-08-29
    ➖
    FIRST SCOTTISH SECRETARIES LIMITED resigned
    corporate-nominee-secretary
  22. 1996-08-29
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    FIRST SCOTTISH INTERNATIONAL SERVICES LIMITED appointed
    corporate-nominee-director
  23. 1996-08-29
    ➖
    FIRST SCOTTISH INTERNATIONAL SERVICES LIMITED resigned
    corporate-nominee-director

Owner dependency

91/100
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
  • +Two-director setup: Only two active directors — typical of owner-managed SMEs but limits succession.
  • +Long-tenure founder: Senior director has been in place 30 years — deep operational knowledge concentrated in one person.
  • +Founder age: Director aged approximately 74 — 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 candidate

Strong acquirability signals converging. Worth approaching directly — this is how off-market deals start.

SIGNALS
  • primaryFounder aged 70+: Senior director is approximately 74 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 30 years. Very long tenure is a classic succession signal.
  • secondaryStable-but-static management: Company is 30 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

2 active beneficial owners
NameSharesVoting rightsNature of controlNotified
Mr Allan Ramsay Lowson
Individual · British · DOB 08/1952 · age 74
25–50%
25–50%board control25-50% shares · 25-50% voting · board control06/04/2016
Mrs Denise Mary Lowson
Individual · British · DOB 09/1953 · age 73
25–50%
25–50%board control25-50% shares · 25-50% voting · board control06/04/2016

From Companies House Persons with Significant Control filings. Share ranges are banded per the public PSC regime.

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Company details

Statusactive
Typeltd
Incorporated1996-08-29
Jurisdictionscotland
Primary SIC71122 — Engineering related scientific and technical consulting activities

Registered office

1 Cambuslang Court
Cambuslang
Glasgow
G32 8FH

Filing status

Accounts
Next due: 2026-09-30
Last made up to: 2024-12-31
Confirmation statement
Next due: 2026-09-12
Last: 2025-08-29

Officers (3 active · 2 resigned)

LOWSON, Denise Mary→
secretary · appointed 1996-08-29
View their other companies + combined net worth →
Active
LOWSON, Allan Ramsay→
director · ~74y · appointed 1996-08-29
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Active
LOWSON, Denise Mary→
director · ~73y · appointed 1996-08-29
View their other companies + combined net worth →
Active
FIRST SCOTTISH SECRETARIES LIMITED→
corporate-nominee-secretary · appointed 1996-08-29 · resigned 1996-08-29
Resigned
FIRST SCOTTISH INTERNATIONAL SERVICES LIMITED→
corporate-nominee-director · appointed 1996-08-29 · resigned 1996-08-29
Resigned

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Recent filings (73 total)

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accounts · AA
2025-09-25
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2025-08-29
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2024-09-09
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2024-06-18
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2023-09-12
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2023-09-04
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2022-08-29
accounts-with-accounts-type-dormant
accounts · AA
2022-04-11
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2021-09-30
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2021-08-31
confirmation-statement-with-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2020-10-06
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2020-06-01
confirmation-statement-with-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2019-09-05
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2019-05-28
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2018-09-28