FELSHAM PLANNING & DEVELOPMENT LIMITED

🌳Matureactive
SC267721 · ltd · incorporated 2004-05-11
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
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year to Jul 2025
Net worth
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book net assets
Opportunity
81/100
Exceptional
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What this business does
Primary activity: Urban planning and landscape architectural activities
Sector: Professional, scientific & technical
Investor take
Pursue
Active trading company with a 61-year-old founder — textbook succession opportunity.

Opportunity 81/100 (exceptional), bankability 75/100. Strong seller-intent signal (70/100, director aged 61). Share purchase looks the cleaner deal structure. Most likely exit: share sale to pe / searcher (73/100).

Data confidence

Overall: medium (73/100)

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 (2 active, 5 linked, 2 with DOB)
78
Ownership & PSC
2 active PSC(s) of 2 total, 1 with control declared
73
Director network
Network not yet resolved
30
Filing history
61 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
85
Strong succession / seller-readiness signals.
Risk profile
85
Few red flags.
Signal strength
90
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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£0£0£0£0£0£0Jul 2024Jul 2025

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Financials

Extracted from Companies House accounts · FRS 102
Metric2025-07-302024-07-30
Average employees2200

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
1
filing
  • • 1 accounts
Last 90 days
1
filing
  • • 1 accounts
Last 180 days
1
filing
  • • 1 accounts
Counts from Companies House filing history.
Corporate timeline (25 events)Click to expand
  1. 2026-04-30
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  2. 2025-03-18
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  3. 2024-04-19
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  4. 2023-04-26
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  5. 2022-07-06
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  6. 2021-07-30
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  7. 2021-04-30
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    change-account-reference-date-company-previous-shortened
    accounts · AA01
  8. 2020-07-22
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  9. 2019-04-30
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  10. 2018-04-16
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  11. 2018-03-24
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    notification-of-a-person-with-significant-control-without-name-date
    persons-with-significant-control · PSC01
  12. 2017-12-11
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    notification-of-a-person-with-significant-control
    persons-with-significant-control · PSC01
  13. 2017-09-19
    ➖
    DRYMEN ROAD COMPANY SECRETARIES LIMITED resigned
    corporate-secretary
  14. 2017-09-19
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    termination-secretary-company-with-name-termination-date
    officers · TM02
  15. 2017-04-28
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-small
    accounts · AA
  16. 2016-06-30
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    annual-return-company-with-made-up-date-full-list-shareholders
    annual-return · AR01
  17. 2016-06-30
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    change-person-director-company-with-change-date
    officers · CH01
  18. 2004-06-23
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    CAMPBELL, Lynne appointed
    director
  19. 2004-05-11
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    Company incorporated
    As FELSHAM PLANNING & DEVELOPMENT LIMITED
  20. 2004-05-11
    ➕
    NEAVES, Philip appointed
    director
  21. 2004-05-11
    ➕
    BRIAN REID LTD. appointed
    corporate-nominee-secretary
  22. 2004-05-11
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    BRIAN REID LTD. resigned
    corporate-nominee-secretary
  23. 2004-05-11
    ➕
    DRYMEN ROAD COMPANY SECRETARIES LIMITED appointed
    corporate-secretary
  24. 2004-05-11
    ➕
    STEPHEN MABBOTT LTD. appointed
    corporate-nominee-director
  25. 2004-05-11
    ➖
    STEPHEN MABBOTT LTD. resigned
    corporate-nominee-director

Owner dependency

76/100
High — earn-out structure required

Material founder dependency. Consider a 2-3 year earn-out and build in a handover plan before completion.

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 22 years — deep operational knowledge concentrated in one person.
  • +Senior director age: Director aged approximately 61 — approaching natural succession window.

Succession & seller-readiness

76/100
Likely off-market candidate

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

SIGNALS
  • secondaryFounder aged 58+: Senior director is approximately 61. Early succession window.
  • secondaryTwo-director governance: Small-team governance. Succession depth is thin but not absent.
  • primary20+ year tenure: Director in role 22 years. Very long tenure is a classic succession signal.
  • secondaryStable-but-static management: Company is 22 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 Philip Neaves
Individual · British · DOB 09/1965 · age 61
25–50%
—25-50% shares06/04/2016
Unknown
Individual
——control reported—

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
Incorporated2004-05-11
Jurisdictionscotland
Primary SIC71112 — Urban planning and landscape architectural activities

Registered office

1 Western Terrace
Edinburgh
EH12 5QY

Filing status

Accounts
Next due: 2027-04-30
Last made up to: 2025-07-30
Confirmation statement
Next due: 2026-05-25
Last: 2025-05-11

Officers (2 active · 3 resigned)

CAMPBELL, Lynne→
director · ~53y · appointed 2004-06-23
View their other companies + combined net worth →
Active
NEAVES, Philip→
director · ~61y · appointed 2004-05-11
View their other companies + combined net worth →
Active
BRIAN REID LTD.→
corporate-nominee-secretary · appointed 2004-05-11 · resigned 2004-05-11
Resigned
DRYMEN ROAD COMPANY SECRETARIES LIMITED→
corporate-secretary · appointed 2004-05-11 · resigned 2017-09-19
Resigned
STEPHEN MABBOTT LTD.→
corporate-nominee-director · appointed 2004-05-11 · resigned 2004-05-11
Resigned

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Recent filings (61 total)

accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2026-04-30
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2025-05-12
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2025-03-18
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2024-06-18
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2024-04-19
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2023-06-23
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2023-04-26
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2022-07-06
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2022-06-20
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2021-07-30
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2021-06-14
change-account-reference-date-company-previous-shortened
accounts · AA01
2021-04-30
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2020-07-22
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2020-06-12
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2019-07-09