GLADMAN DEVELOPMENTS LIMITED
Company number 03341567 · Monitor this company
Executive summary
Gladman Developments Limited has successfully transitioned from speculative commercial development to a higher-margin land promotion model, leveraging its 28-year planning expertise and substantial £212 million asset base to maintain profitability despite a 45% revenue decline. The company's key strategic priorities should be accelerating land bank monetisation to improve ROCE, investing in digital capabilities for competitive site identification, and carefully managing the operational capacity constraints resulting from its 40% headcount reduction. The primary risks to sustained performance are revenue volatility inherent in the transaction-based model, potential disruption from UK planning system reforms, and the concentration risk associated with its reliance on associated businesses for construction delivery.
Shareholders' funds
£85,995,623
Balance sheet as at 2021-03-31
What it does
The principal activities of the company remained unchanged; however given that office market values continue to remain depressed there was a shift in emphasis away from speculative development, with a greater focus on enhancing the value of landholdings by improving the planning status of sites.
The company's own description, from its latest filed accounts.
Overview
- Company type
- Private Limited Company
- Incorporated
- 1997-03-27
- Employees
- 123 (2021 accounts · was 194 in 2020)
- Registered office
- Gladman House Alexandria Way, Congleton Business Park, Congleton, Cheshire, United Kingdom, CW12 1LB
- Postcode
- CW12 1LB
- Capital
- 99 GBP
- Accounts category
- Full
- Charges
- 23 outstanding
Accounts
- Last made up to
- 2025-06-29
- Next due by
- 2027-03-31
- Financial year end
- 30 June
Confirmation statement
- Last statement dated
- 2026-03-22
- Next due by
- 2027-04-05
Nature of business (SIC)
- 68100 Buying and selling of own real estate
Officers 8 current · 20 resigned
Group structure 1 subsidiary
Controlled by BDW TRADING LIMITED — since 2022-01-31
From persons-with-significant-control filings on the public register.
Modern slavery statement
Registered a modern slavery statement for 2025 (period to 2025-06-29) as part of the BARRATT REDROW PLC group statement — 3 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.
Data protection registration
Registered with the ICO as a data protection fee payer — ZA025013 (Tier 2), registered since 2013.
Information Commissioner's Office register of fee payers, licensed under the Open Government Licence.
Contact details
- Website
- gladman.co.uk
- Phone
- 01260 544 710, 09154795673
The UK's most active land promoter. We win planning permission on your land at our cost, then sell the site to a housebuilder. 290+ sites, 44,500+ homes.
Previous registered addresses 3
| Address | Changed on |
|---|---|
| GLADMAN HOUSE, ALEXANDRIA WAY, CONGLETON, CHESHIRE, CW12 1LB | 2020-06-29 |
| 3 WEST STREET, CONGLETON, CHESHIRE CW12 1JN | 2005-12-15 |
| 11 WEST STREET, CONGLETON, CHESHIRE CW12 1JN | 2002-10-31 |
Among its peers
Top 1%
by shareholders' funds, of 534 similar companies in CW
The largest employer among its local peers (123 staff).
Among the oldest 25% of its local peers, trading since 1997.
No.1 of the largest buying and selling of own real estate companies in Crewe →
Competitors Crewe
This company ranks 1 among buying and selling of own real estate in Crewe.
The class of 1997
60%
of the 823 companies in this sector incorporated in 1997 are still active today; 39% have since been dissolved.
A fact about the year, not a forecast for this company.
Property in England & Wales 20 titles
- Freehold
- 20
- Most recent registration
- 2025-07-25
- Price paid, where recorded
- £2,230,000
- Where
- Leicestershire (6), East Sussex (3), Cheshire East (3)
| Title number | County | Tenure | Registered | Price paid |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ESX440139 | East Sussex | Freehold | 2025-07-25 | — |
| GR350298 | Gloucestershire | Freehold | 2024-09-05 | — |
| GR484891 | Gloucestershire | Freehold | 2024-09-05 | — |
| LT83024 | Leicestershire | Freehold | 2024-04-15 | £650,000 |
| WT414535 | Wiltshire | Freehold | 2023-12-15 | — |
| ESX427634 | East Sussex | Freehold | 2023-07-27 | £600,000 |
| LT122296 | Leicestershire | Freehold | 2022-10-18 | — |
| LT217565 | Leicestershire | Freehold | 2022-10-18 | — |
| LT540354 | Leicestershire | Freehold | 2022-10-18 | — |
| LT77063 | Leicestershire | Freehold | 2022-10-18 | — |
| ESX81648 | East Sussex | Freehold | 2022-08-12 | £650,000 |
| LT528559 | Leicestershire | Freehold | 2021-04-20 | — |
| ND198765 | Northumberland | Freehold | 2019-07-04 | £330,000 |
| CH634878 | Cheshire East | Freehold | 2015-01-08 | — |
| CH468277 | Cheshire East | Freehold | 2015-01-07 | — |
| WT274638 | Wiltshire | Freehold | 2013-09-02 | — |
| CH42739 | Cheshire West And Chester | Freehold | 2012-06-29 | — |
| DY397059 | Derbyshire | Freehold | 2006-01-17 | — |
| CH540863 | Cheshire East | Freehold | 2005-10-11 | — |
| BM247427 | Buckinghamshire | Freehold | 2005-09-21 | — |
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