BROADLEES DEVELOPMENTS LIMITED

🌳Matureactive
SC307821 · ltd · incorporated 2006-08-31
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 Aug 2024
Net worth
£-549
book net assets
Opportunity
80/100
Exceptional
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What this business does
Primary activity: Other construction installation
Sector: Construction
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 66). Share purchase looks the cleaner deal structure. Biggest value-creation lever: Cash flow review and working-capital discipline. Cash down -93% YoY — forensic review of receivables, stock turns, and creditor days. Most likely exit: share sale to pe / searcher (65/100).

Data confidence

Overall: medium (79/100)

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
3 officers (3 active, 3 linked, 2 with DOB)
83
Ownership & PSC
2 active PSC(s) of 2 total, 2 with control declared
90
Director network
2 connected companies via shared directors
51
Filing history
45 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 £549
Cash draining
Cash down 93% YoY
Cash YoY
-93%
Year on year

Key financials

2 years extracted from filed iXBRL accounts
Cash
£622
↓ 93% YoY
Net Worth
-£549
~ YoY
Current Assets
£86k
↑ 13% YoY
Current Liabilities
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-£549£17k£34k£51k£69k£86kAug 2023Aug 2024

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Financials

Extracted from Companies House accounts · accounting standard unknown
Metric2024-08-312023-08-31
Total assets£-549£-546
Current assets£86.1k£76.5k
Cash£622£9.5k
Debtors£520—
Net assets£-549£-546

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
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Corporate timeline (19 events)Click to expand
  1. 2025-05-30
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  2. 2024-05-18
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
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  3. 2023-05-22
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  4. 2022-04-28
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-dormant
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  5. 2021-05-23
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-dormant
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  6. 2019-09-27
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    accounts · AA
  7. 2018-10-29
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  8. 2018-08-27
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  9. 2018-08-27
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  10. 2018-04-23
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    accounts · AA
  11. 2017-09-01
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  12. 2017-09-01
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  13. 2017-09-01
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  14. 2017-05-22
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  15. 2015-11-02
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  16. 2006-08-31
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    Company incorporated
    As BROADLEES DEVELOPMENTS LIMITED
  17. 2006-08-31
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    ANDERSON, Barbara appointed
    secretary
  18. 2006-08-31
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    ANDERSON, Barbara appointed
    director
  19. 2006-08-31
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    ANDERSON, Robert Thomas Hutton appointed
    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 20 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

79/100
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.
  • secondary12+ year tenure: Director in role 20 years.
  • 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

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 Robert Thomas Hutton Anderson
Individual · British · DOB 12/1960 · age 66
25–50%
25–50%25-50% shares · 25-50% voting31/08/2016
Mrs Barbara Anderson
Individual · British · DOB 04/1961 · age 65
25–50%
25–50%25-50% shares · 25-50% voting31/08/2016

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
Incorporated2006-08-31
Jurisdictionscotland
Primary SIC43290 — Other construction installation

Registered office

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Broadlees
Chapelton
South Lanarkshire
ML10 6RR

Filing status

Accounts
Next due: 2026-05-31
Last made up to: 2024-08-31
Confirmation statement
Next due: 2026-09-08
Last: 2025-08-25

Officers (3 active · 0 resigned)

ANDERSON, Barbara→
secretary · appointed 2006-08-31
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ANDERSON, Barbara→
director · ~65y · appointed 2006-08-31
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Active
ANDERSON, Robert Thomas Hutton→
director · ~66y · appointed 2006-08-31
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Active

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Recent filings (45 total)

confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2025-08-25
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2025-05-30
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2024-09-12
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2024-05-18
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confirmation-statement · CS01
2023-08-31
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2023-05-22
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2022-09-09
accounts-with-accounts-type-dormant
accounts · AA
2022-04-28
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2021-08-31
accounts-with-accounts-type-dormant
accounts · AA
2021-05-23
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2020-09-11
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2019-09-27
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2019-09-10
accounts-with-accounts-type-dormant
accounts · AA
2018-10-29
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2018-08-31