SELECT PLANT HIRE COMPANY LIMITED
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Next accounts due
2026-12-31 (in 7mo)
Last filed for 2025-03-31
Confirmation statement due
2026-08-07 (in 3mo)
Last made up 2025-07-24
Watchouts
None on the register
Cash
£10K
-89.7% vs 2024
Net assets
£94M
+9.7% vs 2024
Employees
—
Average over period
Profit before tax
£10M
-39.6% vs 2024
Name history
Renamed 1 time since incorporation
- SELECT PLANT HIRE COMPANY LIMITED 1986-03-06 → present
- MELART LIMITED 1985-12-20 → 1986-03-06
Net assets
2-year trend · vs Industrials median
Accounts
2-year trend · latest reflected 2025-03-31
| Metric | Trend | 2024-03-31 | 2025-03-31 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Turnover | £191,710,000 | £199,493,000 | |
| Operating profit | £21,191,000 | £19,410,000 | |
| Profit before tax | £17,377,000 | £10,488,000 | |
| Net profit | £17,770,000 | £8,283,000 | |
| Cash | £97,000 | £10,000 | |
| Total assets less current liabilities | £157,444,000 | £177,417,000 | |
| Net assets | £85,705,000 | £93,988,000 | |
| Equity | £85,705,000 | £93,988,000 | |
| Average employees | — | — | |
| 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 | 2024-03-31 | 2025-03-31 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Operating margin | 11.1% | 9.7% | |
| Net margin | 9.3% | 4.2% | |
| Return on capital employed | 13.5% | 10.9% | |
| Current ratio | 0.79x | 0.93x | |
| Interest cover | 3.68x | 2.14x |
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 101
- Reporting scope
- Standalone (parent only)
- Auditor
- PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP
- Audit opinion
- Unqualified (clean)
- Going concern
- Affirmed
“The financial statements have been prepared on the going concern basis, which assumes that the Company will continue in operational existence for the foreseeable future.”
Group structure
- SELECT PLANT HIRE COMPANY LIMITED · parent
- Explore Transport Limited 0.5%
Significant events
- “On 30 June 2025, the Company signed a purchase agreement for the purchase of the trade and assets of the plant hire business of Explore Transport Limited, which completed on 31 July 2025.”
- “On completion, the Group also signed a sale agreement for its 50 per cent equity interest in Explore Transport Limited which includes the Group's effective equity interest of 35 per cent in Prigmore Haulage Limited, a subsidiary of Explore Transport Limited.”
Auditor, going-concern and subsidiary information is drawn from the narrative of the latest annual accounts. About these numbers
People
3 active · 30 resigned
| Name | Role | Appointed | Born | Nationality |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| O'HARA, Marie-Claire | Secretary | 2026-02-13 | — | — |
| LYONS, Peter John | Director | 2023-08-03 | Mar 1981 | Irish |
| WARRINGTON, Alexander | Director | 2019-12-20 | Jul 1976 | British |
Show 30 resigned officers
| Name | Role | Appointed | Resigned |
|---|---|---|---|
| HOWDEN, George | Secretary | 1999-02-01 | 1999-10-31 |
| JOHNSON, Dennis Arthur | Secretary | — | 2000-05-02 |
| MCKENZIE, Clive William Price | Secretary | 2000-05-02 | 2010-05-28 |
| STYANT, Teresa Ann | Secretary | 2010-05-28 | 2016-06-29 |
| SULLIVAN, Stephen John | Secretary | 2016-06-29 | 2016-12-23 |
| TURNER, Robert Edward | Secretary | 2016-12-23 | 2026-02-13 |
| BAKER, Rowan Clare | Director | 2020-09-22 | 2024-09-27 |
| BOYLE, Patrick Denis | Director | 2006-03-27 | 2010-07-06 |
| CARTER, Robert Stephen | Director | 2006-03-01 | 2008-04-08 |
| COLEBY, Steve | Director | 2015-05-27 | 2016-07-01 |
| COLLINS, Paul Cornelius | Director | 1996-03-20 | 2014-08-07 |
| CORK, Steven | Director | 1998-09-15 | 2006-05-02 |
| DEMPSEY, Bernard Anthony | Director | — | 2011-09-01 |
| DYE, Barry | Director | 1991-11-20 | 2006-03-01 |
| GILL, Matthew Clement Hugh | Director | 2016-07-01 | 2019-09-30 |
| HARDING, Neil | Director | 2010-01-04 | 2011-07-22 |
| HARLEY, Stephen John | Director | 2016-07-01 | 2019-12-20 |
| HOLLINGSHEAD, Stephen | Director | 1991-11-20 | 2005-10-31 |
| JOHNSON, Dennis Arthur | Director | — | 2006-03-01 |
| JONES, Vivian Hugh | Director | 2010-10-19 | 2012-10-31 |
| MCINTYRE, Alexander Stewart | Director | 2017-10-18 | 2020-09-22 |
| MCNERNEY, Paul William | Director | 2013-04-25 | 2019-12-20 |
| O'ROURKE, Bernadette | Director | — | 2014-08-28 |
| O'ROURKE, Hubert Desmond | Director | — | 2024-07-17 |
| O'ROURKE, Raymond Gabriel | Director | — | 2006-05-02 |
| PURVES, Stuart Robert | Director | 2015-05-27 | 2016-07-01 |
| TUCKETT, Callum Mitchell | Director | 2014-08-07 | 2015-05-27 |
| WAINWRIGHT, Philip Michael | Director | 2006-03-01 | 2007-03-09 |
| WAINWRIGHT, Phillip Michael | Director | 2010-01-04 | 2013-04-30 |
| WALDMAN, Stuart Alexander | Director | 2010-01-04 | 2010-07-29 |
Ownership
Persons with significant control
| Name | Kind | Nature of control | Notified | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Laing O'Rourke Holdings Limited | Corporate entity | Shares 75–100%, Voting 75–100%, Appoints directors | 2022-03-31 | Active |
| R O'Rourke & Son Limited | Corporate entity | Shares 75–100%, Voting 75–100%, Appoints directors | 2016-04-06 | Ceased 2022-03-31 |
Filing timeline
Last 20 of 222 total filings
| Date | Type | Category | Description | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-02-20 | TM02 | officers | Termination secretary company with name termination date | |
| 2026-02-20 | AP03 | officers | Appoint person secretary company with name date | |
| 2025-12-23 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2025-07-24 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2024-11-20 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2024-10-02 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2024-07-30 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2024-07-25 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2024-01-17 | MR04 | mortgage | Mortgage satisfy charge full | |
| 2024-01-15 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2023-08-25 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2023-07-28 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2022-11-28 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2022-08-02 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with updates | |
| 2022-05-04 | PSC07 | persons-with-significant-control | Cessation of a person with significant control | |
| 2022-05-04 | PSC02 | persons-with-significant-control | Notification of a person with significant control | |
| 2021-12-14 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2021-07-29 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2021-02-22 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2020-09-24 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date |
Public-record activity
Raw counts from Companies House — last 12–24 months
- Filings
- 4
- Capital events
- 0
- Officers appointed
- 1
- Officers resigned
- 1
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
+4.1%
£191,710,000 £199,493,000
-
Cash
-89.7%
£97,000 £10,000
-
Net assets
+9.7%
£85,705,000 £93,988,000
-
Employees
—
Not reported
-
Operating profit
-8.4%
£21,191,000 £19,410,000
-
Profit before tax
-39.6%
£17,377,000 £10,488,000
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