GIBBON LAWSON MCKEE LTD.
Company number SC162310 · Monitor this company
Executive summary
Gibbon Lawson McKee Limited is a well-established Edinburgh-based building consultancy demonstrating strong financial improvement, with net assets growing 16.6% to £787,792 in FY2025 and minimal leverage providing resilience against sector headwinds. However, the significant shift in working capital composition — debtors rising 45.7% while cash declined 35.3% — signals potential collection issues or intercompany funding arrangements that warrant scrutiny, particularly given the £329,608 owed by group undertakings to its majority shareholder We Are Glm Limited. The firm occupies a defensible mid-market niche through its dual building surveying and architectural capabilities, but must address cash conversion efficiency to sustain its growth trajectory in a challenging Scottish construction market.
Shareholders' funds
£787,792
Balance sheet as at 2025-03-31
Overview
- Company type
- Private Limited Company
- Incorporated
- 1995-12-20
- Employees
- 24 (2025 accounts · was 23 in 2024)
- Registered office
- 20 Torphichen Street, Edinburgh, Scotland, EH3 8JB
- Postcode
- EH3 8JB
- Capital
- 20,527 GBP
- Accounts category
- Total Exemption Full
- Charges
- 1 outstanding
Accounts
- Last made up to
- 2025-03-31
- Next due by
- 2026-12-31
- Financial year end
- 31 March
Confirmation statement
- Last statement dated
- 2026-07-23
- Next due by
- 2027-08-06
Nature of business (SIC)
- 41100 Development of building projects
- 71111 Architectural activities
Officers 3 current · 9 resigned
Group structure 1 subsidiary
Controlled by WE ARE GLM LIMITED — since 2019-03-28
From persons-with-significant-control filings on the public register.
Data protection registration
Registered with the ICO as a data protection fee payer — ZA706948 (Tier 2), registered since 2020.
Information Commissioner's Office register of fee payers, licensed under the Open Government Licence.
Previous registered addresses 1
| Address | Changed on |
|---|---|
| 58 CASTLE STREET, EDINBURGH, EH2 3LU | 2018-02-19 |
Among its peers
Top 25%
by shareholders' funds, of 730 similar companies in EH
Among the biggest employers among its local peers (24 staff).
Among the oldest 25% of its local peers, trading since 1995.
Competitors Edinburgh
This company ranks 80 among development of building projects in Edinburgh.
The class of 1995
47%
of the 705 companies in this sector incorporated in 1995 are still active today; 50% have since been dissolved.
A fact about the year, not a forecast for this company.
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