D.S.C. NORTH LIMITED

🌳Matureactive
SC193336 · ltd · incorporated 1999-02-10
Investment thesis
Property vehicle with a workable charge structure — clean refinance potential.
Why interesting: Asset-backed; value largely in underlying property; lender engagement likely possible.
Why risky: Dependent on title and valuation due diligence; standard property risks.
Opportunity decay
approaching window · 12-months
Approaching a transaction window — refinance or sale event plausible in the next 12 months.
  • · Oldest live charge 23.0y old — refinance window within 12 months
🔒Estimated value
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Turnover
—
year to Mar 2025
Net worth
£1.63M
book net assets
Opportunity
81/100
Exceptional
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What this business does
Primary activity: Construction of commercial buildings
Sector: Construction
Investor take
Pursue
Active trading company with a 66-year-old founder — textbook succession opportunity.

Opportunity 81/100 (exceptional), bankability 80/100. Strong seller-intent signal (83/100, director aged 66). Share purchase looks the cleaner deal structure. Biggest value-creation lever: Discharge stale live charges. 1 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

1 live charge · oldest 23.0y

65/100
clean up first

Refinance viable after a tidy-up — address the highlighted items first.

  • · Oldest live charge is 23.0 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: medium (78/100)

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
1 charges (1/1 with lender, 1/1 with type)
90
Directors & officers
5 officers (3 active, 5 linked, 2 with DOB)
78
Ownership & PSC
1 active PSC(s) of 2 total, 2 with control declared
90
Director network
1 connected companies via shared directors
48
Filing history
76 filings on record
85
Gazette notices
No matching gazette notices (standard for active companies)
60
Opportunity Score
81/100Exceptional
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
82
Few red flags.
Signal strength
100
Good data coverage for analysis.

Signals from accounts

Derived from iXBRL accounts · accounting standard not declared
Positive net assets
Net assets £1,628,036
Cash YoY
+132%
Year on year

Key financials

2 years extracted from filed iXBRL accounts
Cash
£1.8m
↑ 132% YoY
Net Worth
£1.6m
↑ 4.5% YoY
Current Assets
—
Current Liabilities
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£0£352k£705k£1.1m£1.4m£1.8mMar 2024Mar 2025

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Financials

Extracted from Companies House accounts · accounting standard unknown
Metric2025-03-312024-03-31
Cash£1.76M£759.6k
Net assets£1.63M£1.56M

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.

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Recent activity

Last 30 days
0
filings
Last 90 days
1
filing
  • • 1 confirmation-statement
Last 180 days
2
filings
  • • 1 confirmation-statement
  • • 1 accounts
Counts from Companies House filing history.
Corporate timeline (26 events)Click to expand
  1. 2025-12-18
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
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  2. 2025-07-01
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    address · AD04
  3. 2024-12-20
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  4. 2024-09-09
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    change-to-a-person-with-significant-control
    persons-with-significant-control · PSC05
  5. 2024-09-09
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    change-registered-office-address-company-with-date-old-address-new-address
    address · AD01
  6. 2024-01-16
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  7. 2022-12-20
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  8. 2022-04-26
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    change-to-a-person-with-significant-control
    persons-with-significant-control · PSC05
  9. 2021-12-16
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  10. 2021-03-29
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  11. 2020-01-06
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    change-person-director-company-with-change-date
    officers · CH01
  12. 2019-12-23
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  13. 2019-12-12
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    change-registered-office-address-company-with-date-old-address-new-address
    address · AD01
  14. 2019-01-22
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    change-registered-office-address-company-with-date-old-address-new-address
    address · AD01
  15. 2019-01-03
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    address · AD03
  16. 2019-01-03
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    change-sail-address-company-with-new-address
    address · AD02
  17. 2018-12-21
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  18. 2003-04-24
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    Charge registered #1
    Lender: Lloyds Tsb Scotland PLC
  19. 1999-02-10
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    Company incorporated
    As D.S.C. NORTH LIMITED
  20. 1999-02-10
    ➕
    SHAND, David Coutts appointed
    secretary
  21. 1999-02-10
    ➕
    SHAND, Claire appointed
    director
  22. 1999-02-10
    ➕
    SHAND, David Coutts appointed
    director
  23. 1999-02-10
    ➕
    BRIAN REID LTD. appointed
    corporate-nominee-secretary
  24. 1999-02-10
    ➖
    BRIAN REID LTD. resigned
    corporate-nominee-secretary
  25. 1999-02-10
    ➕
    STEPHEN MABBOTT LTD. appointed
    corporate-nominee-director
  26. 1999-02-10
    ➖
    STEPHEN MABBOTT LTD. 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 27 years — deep operational knowledge concentrated in one person.
  • +Founder age: Director aged approximately 66 — succession pressure is live.
  • +Family involvement: Multiple officers share a surname — likely family business, which concentrates governance.

Succession & seller-readiness

86/100
Likely off-market candidate

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

SIGNALS
  • primaryFounder aged 63+: Senior director is approximately 66. 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 27 years. Very long tenure is a classic succession signal.
  • secondaryStable-but-static management: Company is 27 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

1 low
Multiple registered office changes
low

Multiple address changes in a short period can indicate operational instability or admin disorder.

Group structure

D.S.C. North (Holdings) Limited is the ultimate parent — holding 75%+ shares. This company sits inside their group.

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D.S.C. North (Holdings) Limited
Corporate parent · holds 75-100% shares · board control
ultimate parent
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D.S.C. NORTH LIMITED
This company · SC193336

Parent relationships inferred from Persons with Significant Control filings. Full subsidiary tree requires reverse-lookup (coming).

Shareholders & ownership

1 active beneficial owner · dominant holder ≥75%
NameSharesVoting rightsNature of controlNotified
D.S.C. North (Holdings) Limited
Corporate entity
75–100%
75–100%board control75-100% shares · 75-100% voting · board control06/04/2016
1 historic (ceased) PSC
  • David Coutts Shandceased 06/04/2016· 75-100% shares

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
Incorporated1999-02-10
Jurisdictionscotland
Primary SIC41201 — Construction of commercial buildings

Registered office

C/O Johnston Carmichael Bishop's Court
29 Albyn Place
Aberdeen
AB10 1YL
Scotland

Filing status

Accounts
Next due: 2026-12-31
Last made up to: 2025-03-31
Confirmation statement
Next due: 2027-02-24
Last: 2026-02-10

Officers (3 active · 2 resigned)

SHAND, David Coutts→
secretary · appointed 1999-02-10
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Active
SHAND, Claire→
director · ~66y · appointed 1999-02-10
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Active
SHAND, David Coutts→
director · ~66y · appointed 1999-02-10
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Active
BRIAN REID LTD.→
corporate-nominee-secretary · appointed 1999-02-10 · resigned 1999-02-10
Resigned
STEPHEN MABBOTT LTD.→
corporate-nominee-director · appointed 1999-02-10 · resigned 1999-02-10
Resigned

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Mortgages & charges

1
Total charges
1
Outstanding
1
Active lenders
Status:Lender:1 of 1 shown
TypeProperties
outstanding
Lloyds Banking Group
Lloyds Tsb Scotland PLC
Bond & floating charge1 property24/04/2003—
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Recent filings (76 total)

confirmation-statement-with-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2026-02-13
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2025-12-18
move-registers-to-registered-office-company-with-new-address
address · AD04
2025-07-01
confirmation-statement-with-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2025-02-17
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2024-12-20
change-to-a-person-with-significant-control
persons-with-significant-control · PSC05
2024-09-09
change-registered-office-address-company-with-date-old-address-new-address
address · AD01
2024-09-09
confirmation-statement-with-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2024-02-23
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2024-01-16
confirmation-statement-with-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2023-02-27
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2022-12-20
change-to-a-person-with-significant-control
persons-with-significant-control · PSC05
2022-04-26
confirmation-statement-with-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2022-02-21
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2021-12-16
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2021-03-29