PLEASANCE LANDSCAPES LIMITED

🏛️Establishedactive

SC596133 · ltd · incorporated 2018-05-03

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

—

year to Dec 2024

Net worth

£76.0k

book net assets

Opportunity

76/100

Strong

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What this business does

Primary activity: Landscape service activities

Sector: Administrative & support services

Investor take

Pursue

Asset-holding vehicle with a 83-year-old founder — textbook succession opportunity.

Opportunity 76/100 (strong), bankability 75/100. Strong seller-intent signal (60/100, director aged 83). Share purchase looks the cleaner deal structure. Most likely exit: share sale to pe / searcher (73/100).

Data confidence

Overall: high (82/100)

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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

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

Ownership & PSC

1 active PSC(s) of 1 total, 1 with control declared

Director network

10 connected companies via shared directors

Filing history

20 filings on record

Gazette notices

No matching gazette notices (standard for active companies)

Opportunity Score

76/100Strong

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Solid opportunity signal. Worth a dedicated memo and management meeting.

Business quality

Adequate — check latest filings for context.

Acquirability

Strong succession / seller-readiness signals.

Risk profile

Few red flags.

Signal strength

Good data coverage for analysis.

Signals from accounts

Derived from iXBRL accounts · accounting standard not declared

Positive net assets

Net assets £76,004

Key financials

2 years extracted from filed iXBRL accounts

Cash

—

Net Worth

£76k

↑ 1900000% YoY

Current Assets

—

Current Liabilities

—

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Financials

Extracted from Companies House accounts · accounting standard unknown

Metric	2024-12-31	2023-12-31
Total assets	£76.0k	£4
Debtors	£8.5k	—
Net assets	£76.0k	£4

Amounts extracted automatically from iXBRL. Fields left blank were not reported or not mapped. Values in GBP unless stated.

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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

filing

• 1 confirmation-statement

Last 90 days

filing

• 1 confirmation-statement

Last 180 days

filing

• 1 confirmation-statement

Counts from Companies House filing history.

Corporate timeline (15 events)Click to expand

2025-08-25
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accounts · AA
2024-09-19
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accounts · AA
2023-07-27
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accounts · AA
2022-09-20
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accounts · AA
2021-07-26
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accounts · AA
2020-09-30
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accounts · AA
2019-06-24
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accounts · AA
2019-06-19
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accounts · AA01
2019-05-23
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capital · SH02
2019-05-23
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capital · SH08
2019-05-15
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resolution
resolution · RESOLUTIONS
2018-05-03
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Company incorporated
As PLEASANCE LANDSCAPES LIMITED
2018-05-03
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GILCHRIST, James appointed
director
2018-05-03
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GILCHRIST, James Taylor appointed
director
2018-05-03
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incorporation · NEWINC

Owner dependency

86/100

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.
+Founder age: Director aged approximately 83 — succession pressure is live.
+Family involvement: Multiple officers share a surname — likely family business, which concentrates governance.
+No director turnover: Company is 8 years old with no director changes — suggests a very tight-knit founder team never broadened.

Succession & seller-readiness

66/100

Strong succession signal

Multiple signals suggest succession is on the horizon. Candidate for proactive outreach.

SIGNALS

primaryFounder aged 70+: Senior director is approximately 83 years old. Natural succession window is now.
secondaryTwo-director governance: Small-team governance. Succession depth is thin but not absent.

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

1 active beneficial owner

Name	Shares	Voting rights	Nature of control	Notified
Mr James Gilchrist Individual · British · DOB 02/1943 · age 83	25–50%	25–50%	25-50% shares · 25-50% voting	03/05/2018

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

Incorporated2018-05-03

Jurisdictionscotland

Primary SIC81300 — Landscape service activities

Registered office

The Pleasance

Kirkfieldbank

Lanark

ML11 9TG

United Kingdom

Filing status

Accounts

Next due: 2026-09-30

Last made up to: 2024-12-31

Confirmation statement

Next due: 2027-05-16

Last: 2026-05-02

Officers (2 active · 0 resigned)

GILCHRIST, James→

director · ~83y · appointed 2018-05-03

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GILCHRIST, James Taylor→

director · ~57y · appointed 2018-05-03

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