CLOWES DEVELOPMENTS (UK) LIMITED
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Next accounts due
2026-12-31 (in 7mo)
Last filed for 2025-03-31
Confirmation statement due
2027-05-17 (in 1y)
Last made up 2026-05-03
Watchouts
None on the register
Cash
£471K
Latest balance sheet
Net assets
£319M
+1.6% vs 2024
Employees
269
+10.2% vs 2024
Profit before tax
£3M
-73.1% vs 2024
Name history
Renamed 1 time since incorporation
- CLOWES DEVELOPMENTS (UK) LIMITED 1994-09-08 → present
- C.W. CLOWES (INVESTMENTS) LIMITED 1964-09-17 → 1994-09-08
Net assets
2-year trend · vs Real Estate median
Accounts
2-year trend · latest reflected 2025-03-31
| Metric | Trend | 2024-03-31 | 2025-03-31 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Turnover | £154,744,620 | £147,128,246 | |
| Operating profit | £13,187,716 | £5,432,310 | |
| Profit before tax | £9,676,073 | £2,598,744 | |
| Net profit | £7,270,678 | £4,947,425 | |
| Cash | — | £471,430 | |
| Total assets less current liabilities | £375,631,960 | £362,629,859 | |
| Net assets | £313,889,042 | £318,836,463 | |
| Equity | £313,889,042 | £318,836,463 | |
| Average employees | 244 | 269 | |
| Wages | £21,049,515 | £31,257,466 |
Values shown as filed in the company's annual accounts. — indicates the figure wasn't present under that line item in that period. About these numbers
Ratios
Computed from the line items above — sparklines read oldest → newest
| Ratio | Trend | 2024-03-31 | 2025-03-31 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Operating margin | 8.5% | 3.7% | |
| Net margin | 4.7% | 3.4% | |
| Return on capital employed | 3.5% | 1.5% | |
| Gearing (liabilities / total assets) | 26.1% | 24.5% | |
| Current ratio | 6.31x | 5.07x | |
| Interest cover | 3.30x | 1.62x |
Margins divide P&L lines by turnover. Gearing is liabilities over total assets. Current ratio is current assets over creditors falling due within one year. Interest cover is operating profit over absolute finance costs. Sector-distribution context coming next.
Audit & accounting basis
- Accounting basis
- FRS 102
- Reporting scope
- Consolidated group
- Auditor
- Grant Thornton UK LLP
- Audit opinion
- Unqualified (clean)
- Going concern
- Affirmed
“The financial statements have been prepared on the going concern basis as the directors consider that the company and group have sufficient cash resources and through the group's overdraft and revolving credit facilities to continue to operate for the foreseeable future. In reaching this view, the directors have reviewed the likely trading results of the company and the group, the company's and group's cash flow forecasts and have ensured that adequate committed lending facilities will be available to meet all reasonable cash requirements for the period to 31 October 2026 (a period of at least 12 months from the date of approval of these financial statements).”
Group structure
- CLOWES DEVELOPMENTS (UK) LIMITED · parent
- Caldene Properties Limited 100%
- Clowes Developments (MFDS) Limited 100%
- Derby County (The Rams) Limited 100%
- Fairham Pastures Developments Limited 100%
Significant events
- “In February 2025, Kevin McFarlane was appointed to the board of directors. Kevin joined the business as an asset management surveyor in 2017 and now heads up the asset management function. Shortly after the period end, Gordon Arthur resigned from the board of directors after completing almost 25 years of service.”
Auditor, going-concern and subsidiary information is drawn from the narrative of the latest annual accounts. About these numbers
People
7 active · 14 resigned
| Name | Role | Appointed | Born | Nationality |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CLOWES, David Charles | Director | 1991-05-04 | Apr 1969 | British |
| CLOWES, Thomas George | Director | 2021-03-17 | Jun 1991 | British |
| FREEMAN, Marc Paul | Director | 2016-09-29 | Sep 1972 | British |
| JONES, Ralph Charles | Director | 2014-01-22 | Aug 1950 | British |
| MCFARLANE, Kevin Richard | Director | 2025-02-01 | Sep 1983 | British |
| RICHARDS, James David Andrew | Director | 2014-01-22 | Nov 1979 | British |
| TAVERNOR, Richard Matthew | Director | 2022-03-17 | Jun 1970 | British |
Show 14 resigned officers
| Name | Role | Appointed | Resigned |
|---|---|---|---|
| BOCK, Andrew Michael | Secretary | 1993-08-04 | 2019-12-20 |
| CLOWES, Muriel Elizabeth | Secretary | — | 1993-08-04 |
| DICKINSON, Ian David | Secretary | 2020-10-30 | 2023-05-15 |
| STEVENSON, Natalie Clair | Secretary | 2019-12-20 | 2020-10-30 |
| ARTHUR, Gordon Robert | Director | 2014-12-01 | 2025-05-02 |
| BOCK, Andrew Michael | Director | 1993-03-23 | 2019-12-20 |
| CLOWES, Charles William | Director | — | 2015-02-22 |
| CLOWES, Muriel Elizabeth | Director | — | 1993-08-04 |
| DICKINSON, Ian David | Director | 2007-06-29 | 2023-05-15 |
| HARRIS, Bryan Lyndsey | Director | 1998-10-07 | 2005-10-12 |
| HEPWOOD, Robert Michael | Director | 2018-11-01 | 2026-03-27 |
| MALIK, Mohammed Ali | Director | 2021-03-17 | 2023-12-31 |
| MCMAHON, Edward | Director | 1994-03-07 | 2014-02-18 |
| SHANLEY, Paul | Director | 2007-10-12 | 2021-06-30 |
Ownership
Persons with significant control
| Name | Kind | Nature of control | Notified | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| The Clowes Trust 2014 | Corporate entity | ownership-of-shares-75-to-100-percent-as-trust, voting-rights-75-to-100-percent-as-trust, right-to-appoint-and-remove-directors-as-trust | 2016-04-06 | Active |
Filing timeline
Last 20 of 204 total filings
| Date | Type | Category | Description | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-05-05 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2026-03-30 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2026-01-23 | MR01 | mortgage | Mortgage create with deed with charge number charge creation date | |
| 2026-01-14 | MR01 | mortgage | Mortgage create with deed with charge number charge creation date | |
| 2025-11-07 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type group | |
| 2025-05-07 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2025-05-07 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2025-02-10 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2024-11-28 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type group | |
| 2024-09-12 | MR01 | mortgage | Mortgage create with deed with charge number charge creation date | |
| 2024-09-09 | MR01 | mortgage | Mortgage create with deed with charge number charge creation date | |
| 2024-09-09 | MR01 | mortgage | Mortgage create with deed with charge number charge creation date | |
| 2024-09-04 | MR01 | mortgage | Mortgage create with deed with charge number charge creation date | |
| 2024-09-04 | MR01 | mortgage | Mortgage create with deed with charge number charge creation date | |
| 2024-09-04 | MR01 | mortgage | Mortgage create with deed with charge number charge creation date | |
| 2024-05-07 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2024-01-19 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type group | |
| 2024-01-02 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2023-07-26 | MR01 | mortgage | Mortgage create with deed with charge number charge creation date | |
| 2023-06-14 | MR04 | mortgage | Mortgage satisfy charge full |
Public-record activity
Raw counts from Companies House — last 12–24 months
- Filings
- 7
- Capital events
- 0
- Officers appointed
- 0
- Officers resigned
- 2
last 12 months
last 24 months
last 12 months
last 12 months
Direct counts from the register. No score, no rating — see the Filing timeline for the underlying events.
Year-on-year
FY2024 → FY2025 · period ending 2025-03-31 vs 2024-03-31
-
Turnover
-4.9%
£154,744,620 £147,128,246
-
Cash
—
Not reported
-
Net assets
+1.6%
£313,889,042 £318,836,463
-
Employees
+10.2%
244 269
-
Operating profit
-58.8%
£13,187,716 £5,432,310
-
Profit before tax
-73.1%
£9,676,073 £2,598,744
-
Wages
+48.5%
£21,049,515 £31,257,466
Each % is (latest − prior) ÷ |prior| for the line item as filed. The comparison is only shown when the latest and prior accounts cover broadly equal-length periods — short or long stubs (typical around incorporation or a year-end change) are suppressed rather than misrepresented. Lines a company doesn't report are omitted. About these numbers