LOCHSIDE HOLIDAYS LIMITED
🌳Matureactive
SC300339 · ltd · incorporated 2006-04-05
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 Apr 2025
Net worth
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book net assets
Opportunity
82/100
Exceptional
What this business does
Primary activity: Holiday centres and villages
Sector: Accommodation & food service
Investor take
PursueActive trading company with a 69-year-old founder — textbook succession opportunity.
Opportunity 82/100 (exceptional), bankability 80/100. Strong seller-intent signal (83/100, director aged 69). Share purchase looks the cleaner deal structure. Most likely exit: share sale to pe / searcher (65/100).
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Refinance opportunity
1 live charge · oldest 0.2y
50/100
clean up first
Refinance viable after a tidy-up — address the highlighted items first.
- · Newest facility, 0.2 years old — likely still in initial term.
- · Single lender — cleanest path to refinance.
- · Legal-friction score 15/100 — clean.
Data confidence
Overall: medium (72/100)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
1 year of iXBRL accounts extracted (no YoY comparison) + narrative notes parsed
50
Lenders & charges
1 charges (1/1 with lender, 1/1 with type)
90
Directors & officers
3 officers (3 active, 3 linked, 2 with DOB)
83
Ownership & PSC
2 active PSC(s) of 3 total, 3 with control declared
90
Director network
4 connected companies via shared directors
57
Filing history
57 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
1 year extracted from filed iXBRL accountsCash
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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 | 2025-04-30 |
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Amounts extracted automatically from iXBRL. Fields left blank were not reported or not mapped. Values in GBP unless stated.
Recent activity
Last 30 days
4
filings
- • 2 persons-with-significant-control
- • 1 confirmation-statement
- • 1 officers
Last 90 days
7
filings
- • 4 persons-with-significant-control
- • 1 confirmation-statement
- • 1 officers
Last 180 days
11
filings
- • 6 persons-with-significant-control
- • 1 confirmation-statement
- • 1 officers
Counts from Companies House filing history.
Corporate timeline (23 events)Click to expand
- 2026-04-10📄change-to-a-person-with-significant-controlpersons-with-significant-control · PSC04
- 2026-04-07📄change-person-director-company-with-change-dateofficers · CH01
- 2026-04-01📄change-to-a-person-with-significant-controlpersons-with-significant-control · PSC04
- 2026-02-20📄notification-of-a-person-with-significant-controlpersons-with-significant-control · PSC01
- 2026-02-20📄cessation-of-a-person-with-significant-controlpersons-with-significant-control · PSC07
- 2026-02-10📄mortgage-create-with-deed-with-charge-number-charge-creation-datemortgage · MR01
- 2026-02-05🔒Charge registered #1Lender: Hsbc UK Bank PLC
- 2025-12-05📄change-account-reference-date-company-current-shortenedaccounts · AA01
- 2025-11-13📄notification-of-a-person-with-significant-controlpersons-with-significant-control · PSC01
- 2025-11-13📄change-to-a-person-with-significant-controlpersons-with-significant-control · PSC04
- 2025-11-13📄capital-allotment-sharescapital · SH01
- 2025-08-12📍change-registered-office-address-company-with-date-old-address-new-addressaddress · AD01
- 2025-05-31📄accounts-with-accounts-type-dormantaccounts · AA
- 2024-05-23📄accounts-with-accounts-type-dormantaccounts · AA
- 2024-01-03📄accounts-with-accounts-type-dormantaccounts · AA
- 2022-12-22📄accounts-with-accounts-type-dormantaccounts · AA
- 2021-05-24📄accounts-with-accounts-type-dormantaccounts · AA
- 2020-09-26📄accounts-with-accounts-type-dormantaccounts · AA
- 2019-09-23📄accounts-with-accounts-type-dormantaccounts · AA
- 2006-04-05🏢Company incorporatedAs LOCHSIDE HOLIDAYS LIMITED
- 2006-04-05➕YOUNG, Laurence Neal Mcpherson appointedsecretary
- 2006-04-05➕MCPHERSON YOUNG, Laurence Neal appointeddirector
- 2006-04-05➕YOUNG, Morag Marion Colette appointeddirector
Owner dependency
83/100
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 20 years — deep operational knowledge concentrated in one person.
- +Founder age: Director aged approximately 69 — succession pressure is live.
Succession & seller-readiness
86/100
Likely off-market candidateStrong acquirability signals converging. Worth approaching directly — this is how off-market deals start.
SIGNALS
- primaryFounder aged 63+: Senior director is approximately 69. 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 20 years. Very long tenure is a classic succession signal.
- secondaryStable-but-static management: Company is 20 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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Mrs Morag Marion Colette Young Individual · British · DOB 01/1964 · age 62 | 25–50% | 25–50% | board control25-50% shares · 25-50% voting · board control | 20/02/2026 |
Mr Laurence Neal Mcpherson Young Individual · British · DOB 03/1957 · age 69 | 25–50% | 25–50% | 25-50% shares · 25-50% voting | 06/04/2016 |
1 historic (ceased) PSC
- Morag Youngceased 19/02/2026· 25-50% shares · 25-50% voting
From Companies House Persons with Significant Control filings. Share ranges are banded per the public PSC regime.
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Statusactive
Typeltd
Incorporated2006-04-05
Jurisdictionscotland
Primary SIC55201 — Holiday centres and villages
Registered office
Woodlands House Woodlands House
Woodlands Glencoe
Ballachulish
Argyll
PH49 4AA
Scotland
Filing status
Accounts
Next due: 2026-09-30
Last made up to: 2025-04-30
Confirmation statement
Next due: 2027-04-19
Last: 2026-04-05
Officers (3 active · 0 resigned)
YOUNG, Laurence Neal Mcpherson→
Activesecretary · appointed 2006-04-05
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MCPHERSON YOUNG, Laurence Neal→
Activedirector · ~69y · appointed 2006-04-05
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YOUNG, Morag Marion Colette→
Activedirector · ~62y · appointed 2006-04-05
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Mortgages & charges
1
Total charges
1
Outstanding
1
Active lenders
Status:Lender:1 of 1 shown
| Type | Properties | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| outstanding | HSBC Hsbc UK Bank PLC | A registered charge | — | 05/02/2026 | — |
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Recent filings (57 total)
confirmation-statement-with-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2026-04-17
change-to-a-person-with-significant-control
persons-with-significant-control · PSC04
2026-04-10
change-person-director-company-with-change-date
officers · CH01
2026-04-07
change-to-a-person-with-significant-control
persons-with-significant-control · PSC04
2026-04-01
notification-of-a-person-with-significant-control
persons-with-significant-control · PSC01
2026-02-20
cessation-of-a-person-with-significant-control
persons-with-significant-control · PSC07
2026-02-20
mortgage-create-with-deed-with-charge-number-charge-creation-date
mortgage · MR01
2026-02-10
change-account-reference-date-company-current-shortened
accounts · AA01
2025-12-05
notification-of-a-person-with-significant-control
persons-with-significant-control · PSC01
2025-11-13
change-to-a-person-with-significant-control
persons-with-significant-control · PSC04
2025-11-13
capital-allotment-shares
capital · SH01
2025-11-13
change-registered-office-address-company-with-date-old-address-new-address
address · AD01
2025-08-12
accounts-with-accounts-type-dormant
accounts · AA
2025-05-31
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2025-04-05
accounts-with-accounts-type-dormant
accounts · AA
2024-05-23