TEXCEL DEVELOPMENTS LTD
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Executive summary
Texcel Developments is a long-established, family-controlled property investment vehicle sitting in the conservative, asset-backed tail of SIC 68209: a £14.4m balance sheet, 59.5% equity funding and bank LTV of just 11% place it well inside sector norms on solvency but below them on returns, with an estimated 2.8% pre-tax return on assets reflecting a deliberately unlevered structure. Its legacy freehold industrial estate in the Kent/Thames Corridor aligns with the strongest-performing UK commercial sector, though flat valuations through a 20% market correction, thin cash of £239k against £1.09m of current liabilities, and unquantified MEES retrofit exposure are the principal watch points. Overall it reads as a resilient, income-focused micro-landlord rather than a market leader — structurally sound, competitively niche, and unlikely to be dislodged by rate-driven distress that is squeezing more aggressively geared peers.
Shareholders' funds
£8,550,966
Balance sheet as at 2025-03-31
What it does
other letting and operating of own or leased real estate
The company's own description, from its latest filed accounts.
Overview
- Company type
- Private Limited Company
- Incorporated
- 1982-11-22
- Employees
- 5 (2025 accounts)
- Registered office
- Parkside Works Thames Road, Crayford, Kent, DA1 4SB
- Postcode
- DA1 4SB
- Capital
- 860 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
- 2026-08-26
- Next due by
- 2027-09-09
Nature of business (SIC)
- 68209 Other letting and operating of own or leased real estate
Officers 2 current · 3 resigned
Group structure 1 subsidiary
Controlled by TEXCEL HOLDINGS LIMITED — since 2016-04-07
From persons-with-significant-control filings on the public register.
Previous company names
| Name | Date changed |
|---|---|
| T.T.S. (BUSINESS SYSTEMS) LIMITED | 1997-04-03 |
| TEXCEL TELECOM SYSTEMS LIMITED | 1983-05-18 |
Previous registered addresses 5
| Address | Changed on |
|---|---|
| PARKSIDE WORKS THAMES ROAD, CRAYFORD, DARTFORD, KENT, DA1 4SB, UNITED KINGDOM | 2009-01-06 |
| THAMES ROAD, CRAYFORD, KENT, DA1 4SB | 2009-01-06 |
| GISTERED OFFICE CHANGED ON 06/01/2009 FROM, THAMES ROAD, CRAYFORD, KENT, DA1 4SB | 2009-01-06 |
| GISTERED OFFICE CHANGED ON 06/01/2009 FROM, PARKSIDE WORKS THAMES ROAD, CRAYFORD, DARTFORD, KENT, DA1 4SB, UNITED KINGDOM | 2009-01-06 |
| 62 GUILDFORD GROVE, GREENWICH, LONDON, SE10 8JT | 1997-03-12 |
Among its peers
Top 1%
by shareholders' funds, of 1,352 similar companies in DA
Among the biggest employers among its local peers (5 staff).
Among the oldest 25% of its local peers, trading since 1982.
No.5 of the largest other letting and operating of own or leased real estate companies in Dartford →
Competitors Dartford
This company ranks 5 among other letting and operating of own or leased real estate in Dartford.
The class of 1982
79%
of the 537 companies in this sector incorporated in 1982 are still active today; 20% have since been dissolved.
A fact about the year, not a forecast for this company.
Property in England & Wales 12 titles
- Freehold
- 8
- Leasehold
- 4
- Most recent registration
- 2024-12-17
- Price paid, where recorded
- £1,785,000
- Where
- Greater London (8), Kent (4)
| Title number | County | Tenure | Registered | Price paid |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| SGL854882 | Greater London | Leasehold | 2024-12-17 | — |
| SGL385111 | Greater London | Freehold | 2016-04-27 | £700,000 |
| SGL755027 | Greater London | Leasehold | 2014-12-22 | — |
| K594831 | Kent | Freehold | 2013-01-03 | — |
| TT116 | Kent | Leasehold | 2012-07-19 | — |
| TT123 | Kent | Leasehold | 2012-07-19 | — |
| K648230 | Kent | Freehold | 2010-12-17 | — |
| K213071 | Greater London | Freehold | 2010-07-06 | £135,000 |
| SGL643199 | Greater London | Freehold | 2003-03-14 | — |
| SGL132175 | Greater London | Freehold | 1998-12-03 | — |
| SGL597078 | Greater London | Freehold | 1997-11-28 | — |
| TGL499954 | Greater London | Freehold | — | £950,000 |
For addresses and the authoritative register entry, use HM Land Registry's official search (£3 per title).
Information produced by HM Land Registry. © Crown copyright 2026. Dataset as at 2026-08.