L & W CONTRACTORS LIMITED
Company number 04307818 · Monitor this company
Executive summary
L & W Contractors is a long-established rail maintenance contractor with strong credit fundamentals: 23% turnover growth to £10.7m, £7.1m of net assets built almost entirely from retained profits, and cash of £2.7m that exceeds total liabilities. The business has consistently self-funded its expansion, and we recommend approval on standard terms, with monitoring focused on customer concentration, working capital absorption as turnover scales, and the concentrated ownership structure.
Shareholders' funds
£3,354,517
Balance sheet as at 2020-04-30
What it does
The principal activity of the company is the undertaking of rail renewal and rail maintenance work.
The company's own description, from its latest filed accounts.
Overview
- Company type
- Private Limited Company
- Incorporated
- 2001-10-19
- Employees
- 77 (2025 accounts · was 76 in 2024)
- Registered office
- Wiston House, 1 Wiston Avenue, Worthing, West Sussex, BN14 7QL
- Postcode
- BN14 7QL
- Capital
- 100 GBP
- Accounts category
- Full
- Charges
- 4 outstanding
Accounts
- Last made up to
- 2025-04-30
- Next due by
- 2027-01-31
- Financial year end
- 30 April
Confirmation statement
- Last statement dated
- 2026-10-19
- Next due by
- 2027-11-02
Nature of business (SIC)
- 43999 Other specialised construction activities not elsewhere classified
Officers 3 current · 5 resigned
Group structure 1 subsidiary
From persons-with-significant-control filings on the public register.
Data protection registration
Registered with the ICO as a data protection fee payer — ZA184746 (Tier 1), registered since 2016.
Information Commissioner's Office register of fee payers, licensed under the Open Government Licence.
Among its peers
Top 1%
by shareholders' funds, of 489 similar companies in BN
2nd largest employer among its local peers (77 staff).
Among the oldest 25% of its local peers, trading since 2001.
Competitors Brighton
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5. SOWGA LTD
This company ranks 3 among other specialised construction activities not elsewhere classified in Brighton.
The class of 2001
40%
of the 739 companies in this sector incorporated in 2001 are still active today; 58% have since been dissolved.
A fact about the year, not a forecast for this company.
Property in England & Wales 4 titles
- Freehold
- 3
- Leasehold
- 1
- Most recent registration
- 2024-04-08
- Price paid, where recorded
- £638,000
- Where
- West Sussex (4)
| Title number | County | Tenure | Registered | Price paid |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| WSX163711 | West Sussex | Freehold | 2024-04-08 | £638,000 |
| WSX435170 | West Sussex | Leasehold | 2022-09-16 | — |
| WSX294283 | West Sussex | Freehold | 2005-11-23 | — |
| WSX156593 | West Sussex | Freehold | 2003-05-20 | — |
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