VESTAL DEVELOPMENTS LIMITED
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Next accounts due
2026-12-31 (in 7mo)
Last filed for 2025-03-31
Confirmation statement due
2026-11-03 (in 6mo)
Last made up 2025-10-20
Watchouts
Cash
£1M
+12.9% vs 2024
Net assets
£9M
+8,268.5% vs 2024
Employees
0
Average over period
Profit before tax
-£1M
+70.7% vs 2024
Watchouts
Facts from the Companies House register and the latest accounts — not a rating
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3 officer resignations in last 12 months
Multiple officers have left the board recently — see the People section for who.
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 | £97,972,000 | £68,677,000 | |
| Operating profit | £1,394,000 | £2,741,000 | |
| Profit before tax | -£3,650,000 | -£1,070,000 | |
| Net profit | -£3,650,000 | -£1,070,000 | |
| Cash | £1,037,000 | £1,171,000 | |
| Total assets less current liabilities | £7,151,000 | £53,081,000 | |
| Net assets | £108,000 | £9,038,000 | |
| Equity | £108,000 | £9,038,000 | |
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Operating margin | 1.4% | 4.0% | |
| Net margin | -3.7% | -1.6% | |
| Return on capital employed | 19.5% | 5.2% | |
| Gearing (liabilities / total assets) | 99.8% | 83.9% | |
| Current ratio | 1.11x | 18.74x | |
| Interest cover | 0.28x | 0.72x |
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
- Standalone (parent only)
- Auditor
- BDO LLP
- Audit opinion
- Unqualified (clean)
- Going concern
- Affirmed
“The board reviewed the Company's business plan in January 2025 and were content that these plans were affordable and that the accounts should be prepared on a going concern basis. The Board has a reasonable expectation that the company has adequate resources to continue to trade over the foreseeable future, being 12 months from the date of these financial statements. The directors are confident that trading performance will remain strong. For this reason, the financial statements have been prepared on a going concern basis.”
Significant events
- “We have successfully completed the development at Bury Farm and made significant progress at the Selborne Road and Hounsome Fields sites. We've sold 15 private market homes in the year and completed 126 affordable homes for VIVID Housing Limited ("VIVID").”
- “In 2024-25, we handed over 141 new homes as part of VIVID's comprehensive development strategy.”
- “The company is actively working on several projects across Hampshire to help VIVID achieve its goal of delivering 1,400 homes annually. Among these initiatives is our flagship development at Victory Quay in Portsmouth.”
Auditor, going-concern and subsidiary information is drawn from the narrative of the latest annual accounts. About these numbers
People
4 active · 27 resigned
| Name | Role | Appointed | Born | Nationality |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BALL, David Graham | Secretary | 2025-05-16 | — | — |
| BALL, David Graham | Director | 2023-01-01 | Feb 1970 | British |
| PERRY, Mark Christopher | Director | 2025-05-16 | May 1964 | British |
| SHEPHERD, Michael John | Director | 2026-01-31 | Jan 1979 | British |
Show 27 resigned officers
| Name | Role | Appointed | Resigned |
|---|---|---|---|
| BAGNALL, Gerald Valentine | Secretary | 2007-10-25 | 2010-06-25 |
| BROWN, Duncan Neil | Secretary | 2018-04-26 | 2025-05-16 |
| BROWN, Duncan Neil | Secretary | 2017-04-07 | 2017-05-10 |
| HILL, Alexandra Abigail | Secretary | 2012-09-20 | 2014-08-31 |
| MONCRIEFF, Zoe Nadine | Secretary | 2010-06-25 | 2012-08-24 |
| MORTON, Patricia Ann | Secretary | 2014-10-16 | 2017-04-07 |
| RAJPUT, Puneet | Secretary | 2005-07-14 | 2007-10-25 |
| SANDERSON, John Anthony | Secretary | 2017-05-10 | 2018-04-26 |
| BAGNALL, Gerald Valentine | Director | 2005-07-14 | 2013-08-21 |
| BARTON, Robert Jeremy | Director | 2008-09-11 | 2015-09-24 |
| BATCHELOR, Mark Richard | Director | 2017-04-21 | 2017-12-07 |
| BROWN, Duncan Neil | Director | 2017-04-21 | 2025-05-16 |
| CHUN, Julian David | Director | 2014-06-24 | 2017-04-21 |
| COOKE, Jane Lesley | Director | 2011-10-27 | 2017-03-31 |
| FLOOD, William James | Director | 2008-09-11 | 2011-08-31 |
| HANCE, Lynda Sharon | Director | 2008-09-11 | 2014-07-24 |
| MACRO, Julian James, Revd | Director | 2005-07-14 | 2008-09-11 |
| MITCHELL, Anthony Albert | Director | 2010-10-28 | 2011-09-15 |
| NORRIS, Thomas Christopher | Director | 2018-10-29 | 2019-03-04 |
| RAW, Philip Hugh | Director | 2017-04-21 | 2018-09-13 |
| SAMUELS, Tristan Lee Valentine | Director | 2024-07-18 | 2026-01-31 |
| SHEPHERD, Michael John | Director | 2017-12-07 | 2022-12-31 |
| SHEPHERD, Michael John | Director | 2011-12-08 | 2017-05-10 |
| STANCOMBE, Michael Francis | Director | 2015-12-03 | 2017-04-21 |
| TILLER, Caroline Jane | Director | 2005-07-14 | 2005-10-19 |
| WALLIS, William Oscar Francis | Director | 2008-01-24 | 2008-03-27 |
| WYLIE, Richard | Director | 2005-07-14 | 2010-09-16 |
Ownership
Persons with significant control
| Name | Kind | Nature of control | Notified | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sentinel Housing Association Limited | Corporate entity | Shares 75–100% | 2016-04-06 | Ceased 2017-07-27 |
Filing timeline
Last 20 of 153 total filings
| Date | Type | Category | Description | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-02-05 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2026-02-02 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2025-10-21 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with updates | |
| 2025-08-21 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with updates | |
| 2025-08-07 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2025-05-27 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2025-05-27 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2025-05-27 | TM02 | officers | Termination secretary company with name termination date | |
| 2025-05-27 | AP03 | officers | Appoint person secretary company with name date | |
| 2024-10-02 | SH01 | capital | Capital allotment shares | |
| 2024-09-23 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2024-09-18 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2024-07-22 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2024-03-04 | MR01 | mortgage | Mortgage create with deed with charge number charge creation date | |
| 2023-10-02 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2023-07-24 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2023-06-09 | MR01 | mortgage | Mortgage create with deed with charge number charge creation date | |
| 2023-06-09 | MR01 | mortgage | Mortgage create with deed with charge number charge creation date | |
| 2023-01-03 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2023-01-03 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date |
Public-record activity
Raw counts from Companies House — last 12–24 months
- Filings
- 9
- Capital events
- 1
- Officers appointed
- 3
- Officers resigned
- 3
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
-29.9%
£97,972,000 £68,677,000
-
Cash
+12.9%
£1,037,000 £1,171,000
-
Net assets
+8,268.5%
£108,000 £9,038,000
-
Employees
—
Not reported
-
Operating profit
+96.6%
£1,394,000 £2,741,000
-
Profit before tax
+70.7%
-£3,650,000 -£1,070,000
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