HENRY BOOT DEVELOPMENTS LIMITED
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Cash
£871K
-8.1% vs 2023
Net assets
£88M
+18.1% vs 2023
Employees
51
-3.8% vs 2023
Profit before tax
£15M
-6.9% vs 2023
Watchouts
Facts from the Companies House register and the latest accounts — not a rating
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Confirmation statement overdue
Due 2026-06-26.
Net assets
2-year trend · vs Industrials median
Accounts
2-year trend · Δ = latest vs prior filed period · latest reflected 2024-12-31
| Metric | Trend | 2023-12-31 | 2024-12-31 | Δ vs prior |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Turnover | £93,723,431 | £52,485,473 | -44% | |
| Operating profit | £14,321,170 | £10,065,237 | -29.7% | |
| Profit before tax | £16,567,121 | £15,430,306 | -6.9% | |
| Net profit | £13,274,019 | £13,189,389 | -0.6% | |
| Cash | £947,299 | £870,503 | -8.1% | |
| Total assets less current liabilities | £77,787,078 | £91,516,322 | +17.6% | |
| Net assets | £74,556,017 | £88,028,344 | +18.1% | |
| Equity | £74,556,017 | £88,028,344 | +18.1% | |
| Average employees | 53 | 51 | -3.8% | |
| Wages | £5,037,996 | £4,802,680 | -4.7% | |
| Directors' remuneration | £1,331,505 | £1,422,220 | +6.8% |
Values shown as filed in the company's annual accounts. — indicates the figure wasn't present under that line item in that period. The Δ column is the change from the prior filed period as a percentage of |prior|; lines a company doesn't report show —. About these numbers
Ratios
Computed from the line items above — sparklines read oldest → newest
| Ratio | Trend | 2023-12-31 | 2024-12-31 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Operating margin | 15.3% | 19.2% | |
| Net margin | 14.2% | 25.1% | |
| Return on capital employed | 18.4% | 11.0% | |
| Gearing (liabilities / total assets) | 69.1% | 62.2% | |
| Current ratio | 0.49x | 0.75x |
Margins divide P&L lines by turnover. Gearing is liabilities over total assets. Current ratio is current assets over creditors falling due within one year. Interest cover is operating profit over absolute finance costs. Sector-distribution context coming next.
Audit & accounting basis
- Accounting basis
- UK IAS
- Reporting scope
- Standalone (parent only)
- Auditor
- Ernst & Young LLP
- Audit opinion
- Unqualified (clean)
- Going concern
- Affirmed
“The Directors expect that the Company and the group will have adequate resources, liquidity and available bank facilities to continue in operational existence for the foreseeable future. Accordingly, they continue to adopt the going concern basis of accounting in preparing the Financial Statements.”
Group structure
- HENRY BOOT DEVELOPMENTS LIMITED · parent
- Henry Boot Developments (Saltwood) Limited
- Henry Boot Tamworth Limited
- Henry Boot Investments 1 Limited
- Henry Boot K Limited
- Henry Boot Nottingham Limited
- Investments (North West) Limited
- Plot 7 East Markham Vale Management Company Limited
- Winter Ground Limited
- Marboot Centregate Limited
- Chocolate Works York Management Company Limited
- HBD Golden Valley Limited
- Wyvern Park Skipton Management Company Limited
- HBD Dev Co 1 Limited
- Airport Business Park Southend Management Limited
- Airport Business Park (Quad) Management Limited
- HBD Summerhill Limited
- Henry Boot Deansgate Limited
- Henry Boot Cornwall House Limited
- HBD City Court Limited
Significant events
- “In 2024, the Company delivered a profit before tax of £15.4m (2023: £16.6m).”
- “In 2024, the Company, its subsidiaries and its joint venture companies completed schemes with a total gross development value (GDV) of £331m (HBD share £188m GDV; 2023: HBD share £111m GDV) of which 72% have been pre-let or pre-sold.”
- “Launched the Origin JV with Feldberg Capital, to accelerate HBD's development pipeline, with the aim to deliver c.£1bn of high quality industrial and logistics (I&L) schemes over the next seven years.”
- “£1.4bn development pipeline (HB share: £1.2bn GDV), 54% of which is I&L and a committed development programme of £124m GDV (HB share: £33m).”
- “Investment portfolio (IP) total property returns of 9.9%, well ahead of the CBRE UK Monthly Index (7.7%), with the market value including our share of JVs and assets held for sale now £107.4m (2023: £112.9m) after £10.4m of accretive sales.”
- “In December 2024 Henry Boot formed an I&L JV with Feldberg Capital, known as Origin. The venture is seeded with an initial portfolio of three sites from HBD's pipeline with a combined GDV of c.£100m (HB share: £25m).”
- “In January 2025, the JV secured a £54m development loan from BGO to fund the acquisition and development of the seed assets.”
- “On 16 June 2023 the High Court handed down a judgement in the case Virgin Media v NTL Trustees II Limited. The case centred on changes to the rules of pension schemes that were contracted out of SERPS.”
Auditor, going-concern and subsidiary information is drawn from the narrative of the latest annual accounts. About these numbers
People
8 active · 17 resigned
| Name | Role | Appointed | Born | Nationality |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| READ, Jaimie Louise | Secretary | 2025-12-02 | — | — |
| BOOT, Hamer James Edwin | Director | 2020-01-01 | Nov 1981 | British |
| BRADY, Adam Robert | Director | 2015-01-01 | Nov 1976 | British |
| CLEMENTS, Vivienne | Director | 2005-11-01 | Jan 1967 | British |
| HUTCHINSON, Edward James | Director | 2012-01-01 | May 1977 | British |
| LITTLEWOOD, Darren Louis | Director | 2016-01-01 | Feb 1975 | British |
| ROBERTS, Timothy Andrew | Director | 2020-01-01 | Jul 1964 | British |
| WHELDON, Thomas David | Director | 2026-01-01 | Nov 1981 | British |
Show 17 resigned officers
| Name | Role | Appointed | Resigned |
|---|---|---|---|
| CHRISTMAS, Eleanor Sian Siriol | Secretary | — | 2013-05-31 |
| DEARDS, Russell Alan | Secretary | 2013-06-01 | 2018-10-18 |
| STANBRIDGE, Amy Louise | Secretary | 2018-10-18 | 2025-12-02 |
| ANDERSON, David Robert | Director | 1996-05-01 | 2018-09-28 |
| BOOT, Edward James | Director | — | 2015-12-31 |
| BOOT, Jonathan Hamer | Director | 1996-05-01 | 2009-12-31 |
| BRADY, Roger | Director | — | 2004-09-16 |
| CULLEN, John Christopher | Director | 2016-01-01 | 2020-01-01 |
| GLEDHILL, John Kenneth | Director | — | 2005-06-30 |
| GREAVES, Douglas | Director | — | 2010-06-30 |
| GREENWAY, James Alan | Director | 2008-01-01 | 2014-06-30 |
| HARRIS, Nicholas | Director | 2015-01-01 | 2019-04-30 |
| PAINTER, Julian Lloyd | Director | 2008-01-01 | 2020-01-01 |
| SCHOFIELD, Adrian Michael | Director | 2015-01-01 | 2020-01-01 |
| SUTCLIFFE, John Trevor | Director | 2009-04-29 | 2020-05-31 |
| WARD, Benjamin Mark | Director | 2015-01-01 | 2016-09-01 |
| WASHER, Timothy Michael | Director | 1996-05-01 | 2011-05-24 |
Ownership
Persons with significant control
| Name | Kind | Nature of control | Notified | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Henry Boot Plc | Corporate entity | Shares 75–100%, Voting 75–100%, Appoints directors | 2016-04-06 | Active |
Filing timeline
Last 20 of 212 total filings
| Date | Type | Category | Description | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-03-10 | MR01 | mortgage | Mortgage create with deed with charge number charge creation date | |
| 2026-01-09 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2025-12-12 | AP03 | officers | Appoint person secretary company with name date | |
| 2025-12-12 | TM02 | officers | Termination secretary company with name termination date | |
| 2025-11-12 | CH01 | officers | Change person director company with change date | |
| 2025-11-12 | CH01 | officers | Change person director company with change date | |
| 2025-07-08 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2025-06-12 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2025-01-15 | MR01 | mortgage | Mortgage create with deed with charge number charge creation date | |
| 2024-12-04 | CH01 | officers | Change person director company with change date | |
| 2024-09-09 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2024-06-10 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2024-06-10 | CH01 | officers | Change person director company with change date | |
| 2024-06-10 | CH01 | officers | Change person director company with change date | |
| 2024-06-10 | CH01 | officers | Change person director company with change date | |
| 2024-06-10 | CH01 | officers | Change person director company with change date | |
| 2024-06-10 | CH01 | officers | Change person director company with change date | |
| 2024-05-28 | MR01 | mortgage | Mortgage create with deed with charge number charge creation date | |
| 2023-11-27 | CH03 | officers | Change person secretary company with change date | |
| 2023-11-13 | CH01 | officers | Change person director company with change date |
Public-record activity
Raw counts from Companies House — last 12–24 months
- Filings
- 7
- Capital events
- 0
- Officers appointed
- 2
- Officers resigned
- 1
last 12 months
last 24 months
last 12 months
last 12 months
Direct counts from the register. No score, no rating — see the Filing timeline for the underlying events.