GLADMAN DEVELOPMENTS LIMITED
Company number 03341567 · Monitor this company
Executive summary
Gladman Developments Limited is a well-established, profitable property business with a strengthening balance sheet (net assets £86M, gearing improving from 2.03x to 1.47x over five years) that has strategically pivoted from speculative development to lower-risk land planning enhancement, yielding improved margins (net profit margin: 23.17% vs 14.45% prior year). The conditional rating reflects a 44.7% revenue decline and 40% headcount reduction that, while management attributes to strategic repositioning, warrant ongoing monitoring through quarterly management accounts and facility covenants tied to minimum EBITDA thresholds.
Shareholders' funds
£85,995,623
Balance sheet as at 2021-03-31
What it does
The principal activities of the company remained unchanged; however given that office market values continue to remain depressed there was a shift in emphasis away from speculative development, with a greater focus on enhancing the value of landholdings by improving the planning status of sites.
The company's own description, from its latest filed accounts.
Overview
- Company type
- Private Limited Company
- Incorporated
- 1997-03-27
- Employees
- 123 (2021 accounts · was 194 in 2020)
- Registered office
- Gladman House Alexandria Way, Congleton Business Park, Congleton, Cheshire, United Kingdom, CW12 1LB
- Postcode
- CW12 1LB
- Capital
- 99 GBP
- Accounts category
- Full
- Charges
- 23 outstanding
Accounts
- Last made up to
- 2025-06-29
- Next due by
- 2027-03-31
- Financial year end
- 30 June
Confirmation statement
- Last statement dated
- 2026-03-22
- Next due by
- 2027-04-05
Nature of business (SIC)
- 68100 Buying and selling of own real estate
Officers 7 current · 20 resigned
Group structure 1 subsidiary
Controlled by BDW TRADING LIMITED — since 2022-01-31
From persons-with-significant-control filings on the public register.
Modern slavery statement
Registered a modern slavery statement for 2025 (period to 2025-06-29) as part of the BARRATT REDROW PLC group statement — 3 years on the registry.
Read the statement summary on the government modern slavery statement registry. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
Data protection registration
Registered with the ICO as a data protection fee payer — ZA025013 (Tier 2), registered since 2013.
Information Commissioner's Office register of fee payers, licensed under the Open Government Licence.
Contact details
- Website
- gladman.co.uk
- Phone
- 01260544710
Gladman are the experts in land and planning with over 30 years’ experience in development
Previous registered addresses 3
| Address | Changed on |
|---|---|
| GLADMAN HOUSE, ALEXANDRIA WAY, CONGLETON, CHESHIRE, CW12 1LB | 2020-06-29 |
| 3 WEST STREET, CONGLETON, CHESHIRE CW12 1JN | 2005-12-15 |
| 11 WEST STREET, CONGLETON, CHESHIRE CW12 1JN | 2002-10-31 |
Among its peers
Top 1%
by shareholders' funds, of 518 similar companies in CW
The largest employer among its local peers (123 staff).
Among the oldest 25% of its local peers, trading since 1997.
No.1 of the largest buying and selling of own real estate companies in Crewe →
Competitors Crewe
This company ranks 1 among buying and selling of own real estate in Crewe.
The class of 1997
60%
of the 822 companies in this sector incorporated in 1997 are still active today; 39% have since been dissolved.
A fact about the year, not a forecast for this company.
Property in England & Wales 20 titles
- Freehold
- 20
- Most recent registration
- 2025-07-25
- Price paid, where recorded
- £2,230,000
- Where
- Leicestershire (6), East Sussex (3), Cheshire East (3)
| Title number | County | Tenure | Registered | Price paid |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ESX440139 | East Sussex | Freehold | 2025-07-25 | — |
| GR350298 | Gloucestershire | Freehold | 2024-09-05 | — |
| GR484891 | Gloucestershire | Freehold | 2024-09-05 | — |
| LT83024 | Leicestershire | Freehold | 2024-04-15 | £650,000 |
| WT414535 | Wiltshire | Freehold | 2023-12-15 | — |
| ESX427634 | East Sussex | Freehold | 2023-07-27 | £600,000 |
| LT122296 | Leicestershire | Freehold | 2022-10-18 | — |
| LT217565 | Leicestershire | Freehold | 2022-10-18 | — |
| LT540354 | Leicestershire | Freehold | 2022-10-18 | — |
| LT77063 | Leicestershire | Freehold | 2022-10-18 | — |
| ESX81648 | East Sussex | Freehold | 2022-08-12 | £650,000 |
| LT528559 | Leicestershire | Freehold | 2021-04-20 | — |
| ND198765 | Northumberland | Freehold | 2019-07-04 | £330,000 |
| CH634878 | Cheshire East | Freehold | 2015-01-08 | — |
| CH468277 | Cheshire East | Freehold | 2015-01-07 | — |
| WT274638 | Wiltshire | Freehold | 2013-09-02 | — |
| CH42739 | Cheshire West And Chester | Freehold | 2012-06-29 | — |
| DY397059 | Derbyshire | Freehold | 2006-01-17 | — |
| CH540863 | Cheshire East | Freehold | 2005-10-11 | — |
| BM247427 | Buckinghamshire | Freehold | 2005-09-21 | — |
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