LAND & WATER SERVICES (SCOTLAND) LIMITED

🌳Matureactive

SC202245 · ltd · incorporated 1999-12-03

Investment thesis

Well-run mature business — low negotiation leverage; premium likely.

Why interesting: Textbook target; clean filings, stable trading.

Why risky: No pressure on seller; any deal likely at full price.

Opportunity decay

hardening · 12-months

Already tight — no obvious softening catalysts on the horizon.

· Thesis: well-run, low negotiation leverage

🔒Estimated value

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Turnover

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year to Dec 2024

Net worth

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book net assets

Opportunity

80/100

Exceptional

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What this business does

Primary activity: Non-trading company

Sector: Professional, scientific & technical

Investor take

Pursue

Dormant / non-trading with a 80-year-old founder — textbook succession opportunity.

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

Data confidence

Overall: high (81/100)

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

Lenders & charges

Confirmed no charges registered

Directors & officers

7 officers (3 active, 7 linked, 2 with DOB)

Ownership & PSC

3 active PSC(s) of 3 total, 3 with control declared

Director network

18 connected companies via shared directors

Filing history

71 filings on record

Gazette notices

No matching gazette notices (standard for active companies)

Opportunity Score

80/100Exceptional

PassWatchWorth a lookStrongExceptional

Strong composite across quality, acquirability, and risk. High-priority target — progress to serious diligence.

Business quality

Active, clean filings, stable charge profile.

Acquirability

Strong succession / seller-readiness signals.

Risk profile

Few red flags.

Signal strength

Good data coverage for analysis.

Key financials

2 years extracted from filed iXBRL accounts

Cash

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Net Worth

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Current Assets

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Current Liabilities

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Financials

Extracted from Companies House accounts · FRS 102

Metric	2024-12-31	2023-12-31
Average employees	0	0

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

filings

Last 90 days

filings

Last 180 days

filing

• 1 confirmation-statement

Counts from Companies House filing history.

Corporate timeline (28 events)Click to expand

2025-10-09
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change-person-director-company-with-change-date
officers · CH01
2025-10-08
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change-person-secretary-company-with-change-date
officers · CH03
2025-10-08
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officers · CH01
2025-09-11
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accounts-with-accounts-type-dormant
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2024-09-25
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accounts-with-accounts-type-dormant
accounts · AA
2023-09-27
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accounts-with-accounts-type-dormant
accounts · AA
2022-09-15
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accounts · AA
2022-01-10
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appoint-person-secretary-company-with-name-date
officers · AP03
2022-01-01
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BISHOP, Kim appointed
secretary
2021-10-19
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termination-secretary-company-with-name-termination-date
officers · TM02
2021-09-30
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BROWNING, Roger William resigned
secretary
2021-09-24
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accounts-with-accounts-type-dormant
accounts · AA
2021-01-11
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accounts-with-accounts-type-dormant
accounts · AA
2019-06-14
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accounts-with-accounts-type-dormant
accounts · AA
2018-12-05
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persons-with-significant-control · PSC05
2018-10-15
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accounts · AA
2018-02-12
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change-registered-office-address-company-with-date-old-address-new-address
address · AD01
2017-12-12
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change-to-a-person-with-significant-control
persons-with-significant-control · PSC05
2013-12-03
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BROWNING, Roger William appointed
secretary
2013-12-03
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MELHUISH, Jeremy Piers resigned
secretary
1999-12-03
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Company incorporated
As LAND & WATER SERVICES (SCOTLAND) LIMITED
1999-12-03
➕
MACLEAN, James Alexander appointed
director
1999-12-03
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MELHUISH, Richard Edward Fitzharding appointed
director
1999-12-03
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MELHUISH, Jeremy Piers appointed
secretary
1999-12-03
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LONDON LAW SECRETARIAL LIMITED appointed
corporate-nominee-secretary
1999-12-03
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LONDON LAW SECRETARIAL LIMITED resigned
corporate-nominee-secretary
1999-12-03
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LONDON LAW SERVICES LIMITED appointed
corporate-nominee-director
1999-12-03
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LONDON LAW SERVICES LIMITED resigned
corporate-nominee-director

Owner dependency

83/100

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 26 years — deep operational knowledge concentrated in one person.
+Founder age: Director aged approximately 80 — succession pressure is live.

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 80 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 26 years. Very long tenure is a classic succession signal.
secondaryStable-but-static management: Company is 26 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.)

Group structure

M.H.J Limited is the ultimate parent — holding 75%+ shares. This company sits inside their group.

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M.H.J Limited

Corporate parent · holds 75-100% shares

ultimate parent

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LAND & WATER SERVICES (SCOTLAND) LIMITED

This company · SC202245

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

Shareholders & ownership

3 active beneficial owners · dominant holder ≥75%

Name	Shares	Voting rights	Nature of control	Notified
M.H.J Limited Corporate entity	75–100%	—	75-100% shares	03/12/2016
Mr Richard Edward Fitzharding Melhuish Individual · British · DOB 09/1946 · age 80	—	—	sig. influencesignificant influence	03/12/2016
Mr James Alexander Maclean Individual · British · DOB 02/1969 · age 57	—	—	sig. influencesignificant influence	03/12/2016

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.

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LEDAIG DISTILLERY (TOBERMORY) LIMITED→ SC144407 · est 1993 · no financials extracted	—	—	—	—	32y	—	—
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Company details

Statusactive

Typeltd

Incorporated1999-12-03

Jurisdictionscotland

Primary SIC74990 — Non-trading company

Registered office

100 Queen Street

Glasgow

G1 3DN

Scotland

Filing status

Accounts

Next due: 2026-09-30

Last made up to: 2024-12-31

Confirmation statement

Next due: 2026-12-17

Last: 2025-12-03

Officers (3 active · 4 resigned)

BISHOP, Kim→

secretary · appointed 2022-01-01

View their other companies + combined net worth →

Active

MACLEAN, James Alexander→

director · ~57y · appointed 1999-12-03

View their other companies + combined net worth →

Active

MELHUISH, Richard Edward Fitzharding→

director · ~80y · appointed 1999-12-03

View their other companies + combined net worth →

Active

BROWNING, Roger William→

secretary · appointed 2013-12-03 · resigned 2021-09-30

Resigned

MELHUISH, Jeremy Piers→

secretary · appointed 1999-12-03 · resigned 2013-12-03

Resigned

LONDON LAW SECRETARIAL LIMITED→

corporate-nominee-secretary · appointed 1999-12-03 · resigned 1999-12-03

Resigned

LONDON LAW SERVICES LIMITED→

corporate-nominee-director · appointed 1999-12-03 · resigned 1999-12-03

Resigned

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Recent filings (71 total)

confirmation-statement-with-no-updates

confirmation-statement · CS01

2026-01-13

change-person-director-company-with-change-date

officers · CH01

2025-10-09

change-person-secretary-company-with-change-date

officers · CH03

2025-10-08

change-person-director-company-with-change-date

officers · CH01

2025-10-08

accounts-with-accounts-type-dormant

accounts · AA

2025-09-11

confirmation-statement-with-no-updates

confirmation-statement · CS01

2024-12-11

accounts-with-accounts-type-dormant

accounts · AA

2024-09-25

confirmation-statement-with-no-updates

confirmation-statement · CS01

2023-12-14

accounts-with-accounts-type-dormant

accounts · AA

2023-09-27

confirmation-statement-with-no-updates

confirmation-statement · CS01

2022-12-16

accounts-with-accounts-type-dormant

accounts · AA

2022-09-15

appoint-person-secretary-company-with-name-date

officers · AP03

2022-01-10

confirmation-statement-with-no-updates

confirmation-statement · CS01

2021-12-15

termination-secretary-company-with-name-termination-date

officers · TM02

2021-10-19

accounts-with-accounts-type-dormant

accounts · AA

2021-09-24