DLP PLANNING LIMITED, MK44 3WH : Companies House Number 02604863

Executive summary

Despite last reporting a seemingly robust balance sheet — £2.04m net assets, £1.96m working capital, and growing retained earnings — DLP Planning Limited has since entered administration, the definitive symptom of cash flow insolvency masked by paper solvency. Its liquidity was dangerously concentrated in a £3.4m debtor book (82% of current assets) against just £469k of cash and £2.2m of short-term liabilities, with cash having collapsed from a £1.59m peak in 2021. The prognosis now rests with the administrators, and creditor recoveries will depend heavily on how much of that debtor book proves genuinely collectible.

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Shareholders' funds

£2,043,528

Balance sheet as at 2024-03-31

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Overview

Company type: Private Limited Company
Incorporated: 1991-04-24
Employees: 58 (2024 accounts · was 52 in 2023)
Registered office: 4 Abbey Court, Fraser Road, Priory Business Park, Bedford, MK44 3WH
Postcode: MK44 3WH
Capital: 10,400 GBP
Accounts category: Small
Charges: 3 outstanding

Accounts

Last made up to: 2024-03-31
Next due by: 2026-09-30 Overdue
Financial year end: 30 September

Confirmation statement

Last statement dated: 2025-12-18
Next due by: 2027-01-01

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Nature of business (SIC)

71112 Urban planning and landscape architectural activities

Officers 8 current · 53 resigned

Director

Subscribers only Appointed 2024-04-01

Director

Appointed 2021-08-01

Director

Appointed 2021-08-01

Director

Appointed 2019-08-01

Director

Appointed 2018-08-01

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Group structure 1 subsidiary

Controlled by DLP (CONSULTING GROUP) LIMITED — since 2016-12-31

WILBRAHAM ASSOCIATES LTD. Dissolved

From persons-with-significant-control filings on the public register.

Public contracts won 3

£98,072 total awarded value where published.

Corsham Neighbourhood Plan Consultancy

Corsham Town Council 2024-04-26 £26,332
R1018b: London Plan Examination in Public - policy and evidential support

LONDON COUNCILS 2018-12-04 £46,765
GYPSY AND TRAVELLER AND TRAVELLING SHOWPEOPLE SITE CONSULTANCY

Harborough District Council 2016-06-01 £24,975

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Contact details

Website: http://www.dlpplanning.co.uk

Previous company names

Name	Date changed
DLP (PLANNING) LIMITED	2017-09-22
DEVELOPMENT LAND AND PLANNING CONSULTANTS LIMITED	2006-12-05
O.R. PLANNING CONSULTANTS LIMITED	1992-08-12
CAMSABURY LIMITED	1991-08-20

Previous registered addresses 6

Address	Changed on
DLP HOUSE UNIT 4 ABBEY COURT, FRASER ROAD PRIORY BUSINESS PARK, BEDFORD, BEDFORDSHIRE, MK44 3WH	2015-02-12
3 RUSH COURT, GROVE PLACE, BEDFORD, MK40 3JA	2003-07-30
OAKLEY LODGE, WESTFIELD ROAD, OAKLEY, BEDFORD	1995-11-16
OAKLEY LODGE, WESTFIELD ROAD, OAKLEY, BEDFORDSHIRE MK43 7ST	1994-01-07
OAKLEY LODGE, WESTFIELD ROAD, OAKLEY, BEDFORDSHIRE MK43 7ST	1994-01-07
134 PERCIVAL ROAD, ENFIELD, MIDDLESEX, EN1 1QU	1991-09-02

The class of 1991

49%

of the 20,887 companies incorporated in 1991 are still active today; 46% have since been dissolved.

A fact about the year, not a forecast for this company.

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Property in England & Wales 1 title

Leasehold: 1
Most recent registration: 2021-06-04
Where: Bedford

Title number	County	Tenure	Registered	Price paid
BD340604	Bedford	Leasehold	2021-06-04	—

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