COLTEN DEVELOPMENTS LIMITED
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Next accounts due
2026-11-30 (in 6mo)
Last filed for 2025-02-28
Confirmation statement due
2026-12-16 (in 7mo)
Last made up 2025-12-02
Watchouts
None on the register
Cash
£1M
+12.5% vs 2024
Net assets
£7M
-2.7% vs 2024
Employees
11
-15.4% vs 2024
Profit before tax
-£265K
-349.6% vs 2024
Net assets
2-year trend · vs Industrials median
Accounts
2-year trend · latest reflected 2025-02-28
| Metric | Trend | 2024-02-29 | 2025-02-28 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Turnover | £5,574,282 | £7,896,030 | |
| Operating profit | -£138,011 | -£330,340 | |
| Profit before tax | -£59,041 | -£265,476 | |
| Net profit | -£62,903 | -£186,071 | |
| Cash | £973,771 | £1,095,012 | |
| Total assets less current liabilities | £7,091,928 | £6,826,452 | |
| Net assets | £6,781,533 | £6,595,462 | |
| Equity | £6,781,533 | £6,595,462 | |
| Average employees | 13 | 11 | |
| Wages | — | — |
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 | 2024-02-29 | 2025-02-28 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Operating margin | -2.5% | -4.2% | |
| Net margin | -1.1% | -2.4% | |
| Return on capital employed | -1.9% | -4.8% | |
| Current ratio | 12.63x | 10.48x | |
| Interest cover | -1.72x | -7.10x |
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
- BDO LLP
- Audit opinion
- Unqualified (clean)
- Going concern
- Affirmed
“The financial statements have been prepared on the going concern basis as the Directors have prepared detailed budgets for a period of at least 12 months from the date of signing the accounts which show that the Company and Group is expected to be able to meet all its liabilities as they fall due.”
Group structure
- COLTEN DEVELOPMENTS LIMITED · parent
- Wellot (Developments) Limited 100%
- Colten Land Limited 100%
Auditor, going-concern and subsidiary information is drawn from the narrative of the latest annual accounts. About these numbers
People
4 active · 6 resigned
| Name | Role | Appointed | Born | Nationality |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| AITCHISON, Mark Christopher Charles | Director | 2011-07-01 | Apr 1968 | British |
| COLWELL, George Alexander | Director | 2012-11-01 | Oct 1978 | British |
| COLWELL, John | Director | — | Nov 1943 | British |
| OTTEN, Richard Andrew | Director | 2009-03-02 | Jan 1975 | British |
Show 6 resigned officers
| Name | Role | Appointed | Resigned |
|---|---|---|---|
| HUDSON, Ian Robert | Secretary | — | 2024-10-18 |
| COLWELL, Jane | Director | — | 2021-02-28 |
| HUDSON, Ian Robert | Director | — | 2024-10-18 |
| OTTEN, Adrian John | Director | — | 2020-05-19 |
| OTTEN, Rosemary | Director | — | 2021-02-28 |
| SAINSBURY-BROWN, Patricia Mary | Director | — | 1998-01-27 |
Ownership
Persons with significant control
| Name | Kind | Nature of control | Notified | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mr Adrian John Otten | Individual | Shares 25–50% | 2016-12-02 | Ceased 2021-05-03 |
| Mr John Colwell | Individual | Shares 25–50% | 2016-12-02 | Active |
Filing timeline
Last 20 of 434 total filings
| Date | Type | Category | Description | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-12-12 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2025-11-27 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type group | |
| 2025-01-06 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with updates | |
| 2024-12-04 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type group | |
| 2024-10-25 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2024-10-25 | TM02 | officers | Termination secretary company with name termination date | |
| 2024-02-13 | PSC07 | persons-with-significant-control | Cessation of a person with significant control | |
| 2023-12-05 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2023-11-30 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type group | |
| 2023-01-12 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type group | |
| 2022-12-14 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2022-01-21 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type small | |
| 2022-01-06 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2021-03-26 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2021-03-26 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2021-01-06 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2020-11-17 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type small | |
| 2020-05-19 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2019-12-02 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2019-12-02 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type group |
Public-record activity
Raw counts from Companies House — last 12–24 months
- Filings
- 2
- Capital events
- 0
- Officers appointed
- 0
- Officers resigned
- 0
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 2025-02-28 vs 2024-02-29
-
Turnover
+41.7%
£5,574,282 £7,896,030
-
Cash
+12.5%
£973,771 £1,095,012
-
Net assets
-2.7%
£6,781,533 £6,595,462
-
Employees
-15.4%
13 11
-
Operating profit
-139.4%
-£138,011 -£330,340
-
Profit before tax
-349.6%
-£59,041 -£265,476
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