PLAINWORTH LIMITED
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Executive summary
Plainworth Limited stands at a strategic inflection point: a 46-year-old property development business that has liquidated its core investment property portfolio and now holds £8.7M in cash with minimal operational infrastructure. The current trajectory—declining net assets, significant dividend and loan extraction by controlling shareholders, and a three-person workforce—signals value realisation rather than value creation. The critical strategic decision facing ownership is whether to redeploy this substantial capital into a defined growth strategy or continue toward full liquidation; inaction is itself a strategy, and an expensive one given the opportunity cost of capital underdeployment in an inflationary environment.
Shareholders' funds
£9,456,586
Balance sheet as at 2026-03-31
Overview
- Company type
- Private Limited Company
- Incorporated
- 1978-02-14
- Employees
- 3 (2026 accounts)
- Registered office
- Fraser Ross House, 24 Broad Street, Stamford, Lincolnshire, England, PE9 1PJ
- Postcode
- PE9 1PJ
- Capital
- 34,000 GBP
- Accounts category
- Total Exemption Full
- Charges
- 42 outstanding
Accounts
- Last made up to
- 2026-03-31
- Next due by
- 2027-12-31
- Financial year end
- 31 March
Confirmation statement
- Last statement dated
- 2025-12-01
- Next due by
- 2026-12-15
Nature of business (SIC)
- 41100 Development of building projects
Officers 4 current · 1 resigned
Data protection registration
Registered with the ICO as a data protection fee payer — ZA710934 (Tier 1), registered since 2020.
Information Commissioner's Office register of fee payers, licensed under the Open Government Licence.
Previous registered addresses 2
| Address | Changed on |
|---|---|
| 27 ELDON SQUARE, READING, BERKSHIRE, RG1 4DP | 2009-06-25 |
| 64 LONDON RD, READING, BERKS | 1986-05-23 |
Among its peers
Top 1%
by shareholders' funds, of 1,068 similar companies in PE
Among the biggest employers among its local peers (3 staff).
Among the oldest 25% of its local peers, trading since 1978.
No.10 of the largest development of building projects companies in Peterborough →
Competitors Peterborough
This company ranks 10 among development of building projects in Peterborough.
The class of 1978
62%
of the 264 companies in this sector incorporated in 1978 are still active today; 36% have since been dissolved.
A fact about the year, not a forecast for this company.
Property in England & Wales 16 titles
- Freehold
- 10
- Leasehold
- 6
- Most recent registration
- 2021-09-10
- Price paid, where recorded
- £3,645,035
- Where
- Greater London (3), Kent (3), Surrey (2)
| Title number | County | Tenure | Registered | Price paid |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| SY92242 | Greater London | Freehold | 2021-09-10 | — |
| DN724995 | Devon | Freehold | 2021-05-24 | £249,995 |
| SGL452096 | Greater London | Leasehold | 2020-05-20 | £334,400 |
| SY858268 | Surrey | Leasehold | 2020-03-24 | £215,000 |
| WR178583 | Worcestershire | Freehold | 2019-12-19 | £334,400 |
| SY601645 | Surrey | Leasehold | 2019-10-02 | £122,000 |
| WSX154383 | West Sussex | Freehold | 2018-12-20 | £235,000 |
| ESX275536 | East Sussex | Leasehold | 2018-11-19 | £334,400 |
| SGL766195 | Greater London | Leasehold | 2016-08-26 | — |
| WSX364216 | West Sussex | Freehold | 2016-06-22 | £174,226 |
| TT9391 | Kent | Leasehold | 2015-11-18 | £334,400 |
| TT31244 | Kent | Freehold | 2015-10-21 | £205,000 |
| HP270829 | Hampshire | Freehold | 2015-03-05 | £334,400 |
| K789383 | Kent | Freehold | 2015-03-03 | £334,400 |
| SK32288 | Suffolk | Freehold | 2004-12-21 | £245,000 |
| MS465422 | Merseyside | Freehold | 2002-11-27 | £192,414 |
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