EXPRESS UTILITIES LIMITED
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Executive summary
Express Utilities Limited has been fundamentally restructured from a £32M+ turnover utility infrastructure contractor into a labour services provider within the BUUK Infrastructure Group. While FY2024 shows improved net assets of £350,030 (from net liabilities of £804,447), this improvement stems from intra-group transactions rather than sustainable trading. The company's going concern status is explicitly dependent on continued group financial support, with no standalone capacity to meet obligations. Credit exposure should only be considered with a parent company guarantee from Eplr Holdings Ltd or the BUUK Group parent, with ongoing monitoring of group financial health and inter-company positions.
Shareholders' funds
£153,655
Balance sheet as at 2025-12-31
What it does
The principal activity of the company is provision of labour services to the utility sector.
The company's own description, from its latest filed accounts.
Overview
- Company type
- Private Limited Company
- Incorporated
- 2001-01-04
- Employees
- 50 (2025 accounts · was 115 in 2024)
- Registered office
- Synergy House Windmill Avenue, Woolpit, Bury St. Edmunds, England, IP30 9UP
- Postcode
- IP30 9UP
- Capital
- 100 GBP
- Accounts category
- Full
- Charges
- 2 outstanding
Accounts
- Last made up to
- 2025-12-31
- Next due by
- 2027-09-30
- Financial year end
- 31 December
Confirmation statement
- Last statement dated
- 2026-01-04
- Next due by
- 2027-01-18
Nature of business (SIC)
- 82990 Other business support service activities not elsewhere classified
Officers 8 current · 7 resigned
Group structure
Controlled by POWER ON CONNECTIONS LTD — since 2021-03-25
Controlled by EPLR HOLDINGS LTD — since 2016-04-06
From persons-with-significant-control filings on the public register.
Modern slavery statement
Registered a modern slavery statement for 2026 (period to 2025-12-31) as part of the BUUK INFRASTRUCTURE NO 1 LIMITED group statement — 4 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.
Contact details
- Website
- express-utilities.co.uk
- Phone
- 02920 028 711, 02920 100 346, 02920 100 347
GTC provide multi-utility infrastructure for UK housebuilders and developers, from fibre networks, electricity, gas, water, wastewater to low-carbon heating
Previous company names
| Name | Date changed |
|---|---|
| EXPRESS PIPE LAYING & REPAIRS LIMITED | 2021-02-12 |
Previous registered addresses 7
| Address | Changed on |
|---|---|
| ESSEX HOUSE 4 ASTRA CENTRE, HARLOW, ESSEX, CM20 2BN, ENGLAND | 2020-02-28 |
| UNIT 3 NETHERFIELD LANE, STANSTEAD ABBOTTS, HERTFORDSHIRE, SG12 8HE | 2018-08-31 |
| C/O UNIT 3,, UNIT 3 NETHERFIELD LANE, STANSTEAD ABBOTTS, WARE, HERTFORDSHIRE, SG12 8HE, UNITED KINGDOM | 2012-08-22 |
| UNIT 1 THE HOMESTEAD, TYLERS ROAD ROYDON, ESSEX, CM19 5LJ | 2012-08-15 |
| UNIT 18 CAPITAL PLACE, LOVET ROAD PINNACLES EAST, HARLOW, ESSEX CM19 5AS | 2005-05-24 |
| 22 MOORS CROFT, BRAINTREE, ESSEX CM7 3LF | 2002-01-15 |
| 16 SAINT JOHN STREET, LONDON, EC1M 4NT | 2001-01-16 |
Among its peers
Top 25%
by shareholders' funds, of 1,251 similar companies in IP
Among the biggest employers among its local peers (50 staff).
Among the oldest 25% of its local peers, trading since 2001.
Competitors Ipswich
This company ranks 208 among other business support service activities not elsewhere classified in Ipswich.
The class of 2001
28%
of the 5,956 companies in this sector incorporated in 2001 are still active today; 70% have since been dissolved.
A fact about the year, not a forecast for this company.