ESSEX AND SUFFOLK WATER LIMITED

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Next accounts due

2026-12-31 (in 7mo)

Last filed for 2025-03-31

Confirmation statement due

2026-09-22 (in 4mo)

Last made up 2025-09-08

Watchouts

None on the register

Cash

£56K

-89.1% vs 2024

Net assets

£17M

+2.2% vs 2024

Employees

Average over period

Profit before tax

£779K

+15.1% vs 2024

Name history

Renamed 2 times since incorporation

ESSEX AND SUFFOLK WATER LIMITED 2003-04-09 → present
ESSEX AND SUFFOLK WATER PLC 1994-03-31 → 2003-04-09
ESSEX WATER PLC 1991-08-06 → 1994-03-31

Net assets

2-year trend · vs Industrials median

ESSEX AND SUFFOLK WATER LIMITED·Industrials median · n=2875

Accounts

2-year trend · latest reflected 2025-03-31

Metric	2024-03-31	2025-03-31
Turnover	—	—
Operating profit	-£5,000	£1,000
Profit before tax	£677,000	£779,000
Net profit	£508,000	£584,000
Cash	£515,000	£56,000
Total assets less current liabilities	—	—
Net assets	£16,508,000	£16,864,000
Equity	£16,508,000	£16,864,000
Average employees	0	0
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
Gearing (liabilities / total assets)		6.8%	6.4%
Current ratio		0.44x	0.05x

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: Deloitte LLP
Audit opinion: Unqualified (clean)
Going concern: Affirmed
“The Directors, having assessed the financial performance and position of NSL, have no reason to believe that a material uncertainty exists that may cast significant doubt about the ability of the Company to continue as a going concern. Due to the net current liabilities position deriving from the payable amount due to NSL, we have obtained a letter of confirmation from NSL to confirm that it will not call due the amounts within 12 months of the signing of the accounts.”

Significant events

“The Company does not support any political party and there have been no donations made to any political party or other political organisation during the period.”
“The income in the year is due to the release of the direct charges accrual off the back of the decision by NWGL to no longer recharge these to the Company.”
“the account became restricted during the prior period and the sweeping process temporarily ceased to take place, thereby resulting in an increased balance in prior year.”

Auditor, going-concern and subsidiary information is drawn from the narrative of the latest annual accounts. About these numbers

People

4 active · 32 resigned

Name	Role	Appointed	Born	Nationality
SOMERVILLE, Richard William Peter	Secretary	2021-10-08	—	—
MOTTRAM, Heidi	Director	2010-04-23	Mar 1965	British
SOMERVILLE, Richard William Peter	Director	2021-10-08	Jun 1980	British
WILLIAMS, Matthew Alexander	Director	2023-09-12	Dec 1974	British

Show 32 resigned officers

Name	Role	Appointed	Resigned
BABIN, Patrick Claude	Secretary	—	1992-12-31
LOWE, Jonathan	Secretary	1993-01-01	1996-02-16
PARKER, Martin	Secretary	2001-02-09	2021-10-08
TREMAYNE, Peter John	Secretary	1996-02-16	2001-06-30
ALLAN, Richard Ronald	Director	1997-09-17	2000-04-28
ALLEN, Michael John	Director	1997-09-17	2000-04-28
BABIN, Patrick	Director	1996-03-20	2000-04-28
CUTHBERT, John Arthur	Director	1994-07-20	2010-03-31
DE VOGUE, Melchior	Director	1996-02-16	1999-12-31
DEGOS, Olivier	Director	1992-12-16	1994-04-01
EVANS, David William Rushbrooke	Director	—	2000-04-28
FABRY, Alain Charles	Director	—	1992-12-16
FARRER, Arthur Mark	Director	—	1996-07-17
FAURE, Marc	Director	1992-02-19	1992-12-16
GREEN, Christopher Michael	Director	2000-04-28	2012-12-31
HARDING, Anthony John	Director	1993-01-01	2001-11-01
HAYNES, Joseph Antony	Director	1994-03-31	2002-03-31
HAYNES, Joseph Antony	Director	1992-09-16	1993-11-17
JAMES, Georgina Giselle	Director	1997-09-17	2000-02-11
JOHNS, Christopher Ian	Director	2013-01-01	2020-05-30
LEUDIERE, Sylvie	Director	1994-05-19	1996-03-20
LEWIS, Andrew Mackenzie, Sir	Director	—	1992-07-22
LOWE, Jonathan	Director	1993-07-21	1996-02-16
PARKER, Martin	Director	2002-03-28	2021-10-08
PARR, David Michael	Director	—	1992-12-31
PETRY, Jacques Francis	Director	—	1992-02-19
PORTER, Michael	Director	2020-10-22	2023-08-25
ROBERTS, David Henry Llewellyn	Director	1994-03-31	1997-09-17
SMITH, Joanna	Director	2023-08-25	2023-09-19
SMITH, Joanna	Director	2020-05-27	2020-10-22
SOMERLEYTON, William, The Right Honourable Lord	Director	—	1993-11-17
SPEED, Hugh David Mcconnachie	Director	1993-09-15	2000-04-28

Ownership

Persons with significant control

Name	Kind	Nature of control	Notified	Status
Nwg Commercial Solutions Limited	Corporate entity	Shares 75–100%, Voting 75–100%, Appoints directors	2016-04-06	Active

Filing timeline

Last 20 of 183 total filings

Date	Type	Category	Description
2025-10-27	AA	accounts	Accounts with accounts type full
2025-09-10	CS01	confirmation-statement	Confirmation statement with no updates	PDF
2024-11-12	AA	accounts	Accounts with accounts type full
2024-09-24	CS01	confirmation-statement	Confirmation statement with updates	PDF
2023-10-06	AA	accounts	Accounts with accounts type full
2023-09-22	CS01	confirmation-statement	Confirmation statement with updates	PDF
2023-09-19	TM01	officers	Termination director company with name termination date	PDF
2023-09-15	AP01	officers	Appoint person director company with name date	PDF
2023-09-08	AP01	officers	Appoint person director company with name date	PDF
2023-09-08	TM01	officers	Termination director company with name termination date	PDF
2023-08-01	RP04CS01	confirmation-statement	Second filing of confirmation statement with made up date	PDF
2022-09-28	AD04	address	Move registers to registered office company with new address	PDF
2022-09-24	AA	accounts	Accounts with accounts type full
2022-09-23	CS01	confirmation-statement	Confirmation statement with no updates
2021-12-15	AA	accounts	Accounts with accounts type full
2021-10-12	AP01	officers	Appoint person director company with name date	PDF
2021-10-12	TM01	officers	Termination director company with name termination date	PDF
2021-10-12	AP03	officers	Appoint person secretary company with name date	PDF
2021-10-12	TM02	officers	Termination secretary company with name termination date	PDF
2021-09-20	CS01	confirmation-statement	Confirmation statement with no updates	PDF

Public-record activity

Raw counts from Companies House — last 12–24 months

Filings: 2
Capital events: 0
Officers appointed: 0
Officers resigned: 0

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

—

Not reported
Cash

-89.1%

£515,000 £56,000
Net assets

+2.2%

£16,508,000 £16,864,000
Employees

—

Not reported
Operating profit

+120%

-£5,000 £1,000
Profit before tax

+15.1%

£677,000 £779,000

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

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