PORTALPLANQUEST LIMITED
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Next accounts due
2026-09-30 (in 4mo)
Last filed for 2024-12-31
Confirmation statement due
2026-08-02 (in 3mo)
Last made up 2025-07-19
Watchouts
None on the register
Cash
£8M
-26.4% vs 2023
Net assets
£9M
+38.6% vs 2023
Employees
17
-15% vs 2023
Profit before tax
£3M
+77.9% vs 2023
Net assets
2-year trend · vs Technology median
Accounts
2-year trend · latest reflected 2024-12-31
| Metric | Trend | 2023-12-31 | 2024-12-31 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Turnover | £19,252,687 | £23,973,643 | |
| Operating profit | £1,633,717 | £2,722,001 | |
| Profit before tax | £1,794,411 | £3,191,582 | |
| Net profit | £1,202,525 | £2,425,310 | |
| Cash | £10,536,387 | £7,750,796 | |
| Total assets less current liabilities | £6,290,016 | £8,715,326 | |
| Net assets | £6,290,016 | £8,715,326 | |
| Equity | £6,290,016 | £8,715,326 | |
| Average employees | 20 | 17 | |
| Wages | £997,721 | £1,045,731 | |
| Directors' remuneration | — | — |
Values shown as filed in the company's annual accounts. — indicates the figure wasn't present under that line item in that period. About these numbers
Year-on-year
FY2023 → FY2024 · period ending 2024-12-31 vs 2023-12-31
-
Turnover
+24.5%
£19,252,687 £23,973,643
-
Cash
-26.4%
£10,536,387 £7,750,796
-
Net assets
+38.6%
£6,290,016 £8,715,326
-
Employees
-15%
20 17
-
Operating profit
+66.6%
£1,633,717 £2,722,001
-
Profit before tax
+77.9%
£1,794,411 £3,191,582
-
Wages
+4.8%
£997,721 £1,045,731
Each % is (latest − prior) ÷ |prior| for the line item as filed. The comparison is only shown when the latest and prior accounts cover broadly equal-length periods — short or long stubs (typical around incorporation or a year-end change) are suppressed rather than misrepresented. Lines a company doesn't report are omitted. About these numbers
Ratios
Computed from the line items above — sparklines read oldest → newest
| Ratio | Trend | 2023-12-31 | 2024-12-31 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Operating margin | 8.5% | 11.4% | |
| Net margin | 6.2% | 10.1% | |
| Return on capital employed | 26.0% | 31.2% | |
| Current ratio | 1.72x | 2.17x |
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
- FRS 101
- Reporting scope
- Standalone (parent only)
- Auditor
- Crowe U.K. LLP
- Audit opinion
- Unqualified (clean)
- Going concern
- Affirmed
“After making enquiries, the Directors believe that the Company has adequate resources to continue in operational existence for the foreseeable future.”
Group structure
- PORTALPLANQUEST LIMITED · parent
- Planning Portal Limited 100%
Significant events
- “The Financial Transaction Service saw application volumes fall by 3% compared with 2023, largely in the first half of the year with volumes recovering in the second half. Revenues were increased due to a 2024 full year effect of a service enhancement in May 2023, which added greater functionality.”
Auditor, going-concern and subsidiary information is drawn from the narrative of the latest annual accounts. About these numbers
People
5 active · 6 resigned
| Name | Role | Appointed | Born | Nationality |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| OAKWOOD CORPORATE SECRETARY LIMITED | Corporate Secretary | 2020-12-21 | — | — |
| BINGHAM, Michael, Dr | Director | 2019-03-19 | Sep 1965 | British |
| BIRKS, Nigel Francis | Director | 2021-03-04 | Sep 1962 | British |
| HARPER, Craig | Director | 2015-03-11 | Dec 1967 | British |
| KEAL, Geoffrey | Director | 2015-03-11 | Feb 1969 | British |
Show 6 resigned officers
| Name | Role | Appointed | Resigned |
|---|---|---|---|
| WESTRAN, Ben Robert | Secretary | 2015-03-11 | 2020-12-09 |
| DUIGNAN, Gerard Luke William | Director | 2016-07-08 | 2016-11-11 |
| SMITH, Richard Paul James | Director | 2016-11-11 | 2019-03-19 |
| THYNNE, Adam Charles | Director | 2015-01-21 | 2015-03-11 |
| WARD, Nicholas Clive | Director | 2015-03-11 | 2016-07-08 |
| WHITE, Simon John | Director | 2015-03-11 | 2020-12-16 |
Ownership
Persons with significant control
| Name | Kind | Nature of control | Notified | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Secretary Of State For Housing, Communities & Local Government | Corporate entity | right-to-appoint-and-remove-directors-as-firm | 2016-04-06 | Ceased 2016-04-06 |
| Terraquest Solutions Limited | Corporate entity | Shares 75–100%, Voting 75–100%, Appoints directors | 2016-04-06 | Active |
Filing timeline
Last 20 of 63 total filings
Material constitutional events — rename, articles re-file, resolution
- 2021-11-17 MA Memorandum articles
- 2021-11-17 RESOLUTIONS Resolution
| Date | Type | Category | Description | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-12-20 | PSC07 | persons-with-significant-control | Cessation of a person with significant control | |
| 2025-09-05 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2025-07-28 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with updates | |
| 2024-10-14 | PSC05 | persons-with-significant-control | Change to a person with significant control | |
| 2024-10-14 | AD01 | address | Change registered office address company with date old address new address | |
| 2024-07-24 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2024-07-24 | CH01 | officers | Change person director company with change date | |
| 2024-07-22 | PSC05 | persons-with-significant-control | Change to a person with significant control | |
| 2024-07-10 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2024-02-21 | RP04AP01 | officers | Second filing of director appointment with name | |
| 2023-07-26 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2023-07-24 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with updates | |
| 2023-07-21 | PSC05 | persons-with-significant-control | Change to a person with significant control | |
| 2022-08-02 | RP04CS01 | confirmation-statement | Second filing of confirmation statement with made up date | |
| 2022-08-02 | RP04CS01 | confirmation-statement | Second filing of confirmation statement with made up date | |
| 2022-07-28 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2022-07-06 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type small | |
| 2021-11-17 | MA | incorporation | Memorandum articles | |
| 2021-11-17 | RESOLUTIONS | resolution | Resolution | |
| 2021-07-29 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type small |
Public-record activity
Raw counts from Companies House — last 12–24 months
- Filings
- 3
- Capital events
- 0
- Officers appointed
- 0
- Officers resigned
- 0
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.