Registered number
10579963
New Place Hotel Company Limited
Report and Accounts
31 March 2023
Fairman Harris
Chartered Accountants & Registered Auditors
1 Landor Road
London
SW9 9RX
New Place Hotel Company Limited
Report and accounts
Contents
Page
Company information 1
Directors' report 2
Independent auditor's report 3
Profit and loss account 6
Balance sheet 7
Statement of changes in equity 8
Notes to the accounts 9
New Place Hotel Company Limited
Company Information
Directors
Khalid Mohamed Jassim Kanoo
Faisal Khalid Mohamed Kanoo
Frederick John Sherman
Auditors
Fairman Harris
1 Landor Road
London
SW9 9RX
Registered office
New Place Hotel
Shirrell Heath
Southampton
SO32 2JY
Registered number
10579963
New Place Hotel Company Limited
Registered number: 10579963
Directors' Report
The directors present their report and accounts for the period ended 31 March 2023.
Principal activities
The company's principal activity during the year continued to be that of hoteliers, restaurants and leisure providers.
Directors
The following persons served as directors during the period:
Khalid Mohamed Jassim Kanoo
Faisal Khalid Mohamed Kanoo
Frederick John Sherman
Directors' responsibilities
The directors are responsible for preparing the report and accounts in accordance with applicable law and regulations.
Company law requires the directors to prepare accounts for each financial year. Under that law the directors have elected to prepare the accounts in accordance with United Kingdom Generally Accepted Accounting Practice (United Kingdom Accounting Standards and applicable law). Under company law the directors must not approve the accounts unless they are satisfied that they give a true and fair view of the state of affairs of the company and of the profit or loss of the company for that period. In preparing these accounts, the directors are required to:
select suitable accounting policies and then apply them consistently;
make judgements and estimates that are reasonable and prudent;
prepare the accounts on the going concern basis unless it is inappropriate to presume that the company will continue in business.
The directors are responsible for keeping adequate accounting records that are sufficient to show and explain the company's transactions and disclose with reasonable accuracy at any time the financial position of the company and enable them to ensure that the accounts comply with the Companies Act 2006. They are also responsible for safeguarding the assets of the company and hence for taking reasonable steps for the prevention and detection of fraud and other irregularities.
Disclosure of information to auditors
Each person who was a director at the time this report was approved confirms that:
so far as he is aware, there is no relevant audit information of which the company's auditor is unaware; and
he has taken all the steps that he ought to have taken as a director in order to make himself aware of any relevant audit information and to establish that the company's auditor is aware of that information.
Small company provisions
This report has been prepared in accordance with the provisions in Part 15 of the Companies Act 2006 applicable to companies subject to the small companies regime.
This report was approved by the board on 8 February 2024 and signed on its behalf.
F J Sherman
Director
New Place Hotel Company Limited
Independent auditor's report
to the members of New Place Hotel Company Limited
Opinion
We have audited the accounts of New Place Hotel Company Limited (the 'company') for the period ended 31 March 2023 which comprise the Profit and Loss Account, the Balance Sheet, the Statement of Changes in Equity and notes to the accounts, including significant accounting policies. The financial reporting framework that has been applied in their preparation is applicable law and United Kingdom Accounting Standards, including Financial Reporting Standard 102 'The Financial Reporting Standard applicable in the UK and the Republic of Ireland' (United Kingdom Generally Accepted Accounting Practice).
In our opinion the accounts:
give a true and fair view of the state of the company's affairs as at 31 March 2023 and of its loss for the period then ended;
have been properly prepared in accordance with United Kingdom Generally Accepted Accounting Practice;
have been prepared in accordance with the requirements of the Companies Act 2006.
Basis for opinion
We conducted our audit in accordance with International Standards on Auditing (UK) (ISAs (UK)) and applicable law. Our responsibilities under those standards are further described in the Auditor’s responsibilities for the audit of the accounts section of our report. We are independent of the company in accordance with the ethical requirements that are relevant to our audit of the accounts in the UK, including the FRC’s Ethical Standard, and the provisions available for small entities, in the circumstances set out below, and we have fulfilled our other ethical responsibilities in accordance with these requirements. We believe that the audit evidence we have obtained is sufficient and appropriate to provide a basis for our opinion.
In accordance with the exemption provided by FRC's Ethical Standard - Provisions Available for Audits of Small Entities, we have prepared and submitted the company’s returns to the tax authorities and assisted with the preparation of the accounts.
Conclusions relating to going concern
In auditing the accounts, we have concluded that the directors' use of the going concern basis of accounting in the preparation of the accounts is appropriate.
Based on the work we have performed, we have not identified any material uncertainties relating to events or conditions that, individually or collectively, may cast significant doubt on the company's ability to continue as a going concern for a period of at least twelve months from when the accounts are authorised for issue.
Our responsibilities and the responsibilities of the directors with respect to going concern are described in the relevant sections of this report.
Other information
The other information comprises the information included in the annual report other than the accounts and our auditor’s report thereon. The directors are responsible for the other information contained within the annual report. Our opinion on the accounts does not cover the other information and, except to the extent otherwise explicitly stated in our report, we do not express any form of assurance conclusion thereon. Our responsibility is to read the other information and, in doing so, consider whether the other information is materially inconsistent with the accounts or our knowledge obtained in the course of the audit, or otherwise appears to be materially misstated. If we identify such material inconsistencies or apparent material misstatements, we are required to determine whether this gives rise to a material misstatement in the accounts themselves. If, based on the work we have performed, we conclude that there is a material misstatement of this other information, we are required to report that fact.
We have nothing to report in this regard.
Opinions on other matters prescribed by the Companies Act 2006
In our opinion, based on the work undertaken in the course of the audit:
the information given in the directors’ report for the financial period for which the accounts are prepared is consistent with the accounts; and
the directors’ report has been prepared in accordance with applicable legal requirements.
Matters on which we are required to report by exception
In the light of the knowledge and understanding of the company and its environment obtained in the course of the audit, we have not identified material misstatements in the directors’ report.
We have nothing to report in respect of the following matters in relation to which the Companies Act 2006 requires us to report to you if, in our opinion:
adequate accounting records have not been kept, or returns adequate for our audit have not been received from branches not visited by us; or
the accounts are not in agreement with the accounting records and returns; or
certain disclosures of directors’ remuneration specified by law are not made; or
we have not received all the information and explanations we require for our audit; or
the directors were not entitled to prepare the accounts in accordance with the small companies regime and take advantage of the small companies’ exemptions in preparing the directors’ report and from the requirement to prepare a strategic report.
Responsibilities of directors
As explained more fully in the directors’ responsibilities statement, the directors are responsible for the preparation of the accounts and for being satisfied that they give a true and fair view, and for such internal control as the directors determine is necessary to enable the preparation of accounts that are free from material misstatement, whether due to fraud or error.
In preparing the accounts, the directors are responsible for assessing the company’s ability to continue as a going concern, disclosing, as applicable, matters related to going concern and using the going concern basis of accounting unless the directors either intend to liquidate the company or to cease operations, or have no realistic alternative but to do so.
Auditor’s responsibilities for the audit of the accounts
Our objectives are to obtain reasonable assurance about whether the accounts as a whole are free from material misstatement, whether due to fraud or error, and to issue an auditor’s report that includes our opinion. Reasonable assurance is a high level of assurance but is not a guarantee that an audit conducted in accordance with ISAs (UK) will always detect a material misstatement when it exists. Misstatements can arise from fraud or error and are considered material if, individually or in the aggregate, they could reasonably be expected to influence the economic decisions of users taken on the basis of these accounts.
The extent to which the audit was considered capable of detecting irregularities including fraud
Our approach to identifying and assessing the risks of material misstatement in respect of irregularities, including fraud and non-compliance with laws and regulations, was as follows:
the engagement partner ensured that the engagement team collectively had the appropriate competence, capabilities and skills to identify or recognise non-compliance with applicable laws and regulations;
we identified the laws and regulations applicable to the group through discussions with directors and other management, and from our commercial knowledge and experience of the industry.
we focused on specific laws and regulations which we considered may have a direct material effect on the financial statements or the operations of the group, including the Companies Act 2006, taxation legislation, data protection, anti-money-laundering, employment, environmental and health and safety legislation;
we assessed the extent of compliance with the laws and regulations identified above through making enquiries of management.
identified laws and regulations were communicated within the audit team regularly and the team remained alert to instances of non-compliance throughout the audit.
We assessed the susceptibility of the group's financial statements to material misstatement, including obtaining an understanding of how fraud might occur, by:
making enquiries of management as to where they considered there was susceptibility to fraud, their knowledge of actual, suspected and alleged fraud;
considering the internal controls in place to mitigate risks of fraud and non-compliance with laws and regulations
To address the risk of fraud through management bias and override of controls, we:
performed analytical procedures to identify any unusual or unexpected relationships;
tested journal entries to identify unusual transactions;
assessed whether judgements and assumptions made in determining the accounting estimates set out in note 1 were indicative of potential bias; and
investigated the rationale behind significant or unusual transactions.
In response to the risk of irregularities and non-compliance with laws and regulations, we designed procedures which included, but were not limited to:
agreeing financial statement disclosures to underlying supporting documentation;
reading the minutes of meetings of those charged with governance;
enquiring of management as to actual and potential litigation and claims; and
reviewing correspondence with HMRC.
There are inherent limitations in our audit procedures described above. The more removed that laws and regulations are from financial transactions, the less likely it is that we would become aware of non-compliance. Auditing standards also limit the audit procedures required to identify non-compliance with laws and regulations to enquiry of the directors and other management and the inspection of regulatory and legal correspondence, if any. Material misstatements that arise due to fraud can be harder to detect than those that arise from error as they may involve deliberate concealment or collusion.
A further description of our responsibilities for the audit of the accounts is available on the Financial Reporting Council’s website at www.frc.org.uk/auditorsresponsibilities. This description forms part of our auditor’s report.
Use of our report
This report is made solely to the company's members, as a body, in accordance with Chapter 3 of Part 16 of the Companies Act 2006. Our audit work has been undertaken so that we might state to the company's members those matters we are required to state to them in an auditor's report and for no other purpose. To the fullest extent permitted by law, we do not accept or assume responsibility to anyone other than the company and the company's members as a body, for our audit work, for this report, or for the opinions we have formed.
F Meghani
(Senior Statutory Auditor) Fairman Harris
for and on behalf of 1 Landor Road
Fairman Harris London
Statutory Auditor SW9 9RX
8 February 2024
New Place Hotel Company Limited
Profit and Loss Account
for the period from 6 April 2022 to 31 March 2023
2023 2022
£ £
Turnover 4,452,594 3,925,047
Cost of sales (2,279,459) (1,975,898)
Gross profit 2,173,135 1,949,149
Administrative expenses (2,270,514) (2,014,550)
Other operating income - 24,000
Operating loss (97,379) (41,401)
Interest payable - (75,341)
Loss before taxation (97,379) (116,742)
Tax on loss - -
Loss for the period (97,379) (116,742)
New Place Hotel Company Limited
Registered number: 10579963
Balance Sheet
as at 31 March 2023
Notes 2023 2022
£ £
Fixed assets
Tangible assets 3 417,257 35,487
Current assets
Stocks 44,363 36,535
Debtors 4 1,656,238 1,528,053
Cash at bank and in hand 362,191 753,234
2,062,792 2,317,822
Creditors: amounts falling due within one year 5 (8,869,577) (8,645,458)
Net current liabilities (6,806,785) (6,327,636)
Net liabilities (6,389,528) (6,292,149)
Capital and reserves
Called up share capital 1 1
Profit and loss account (6,389,529) (6,292,150)
Shareholders' funds (6,389,528) (6,292,149)
The accounts have been prepared and delivered in accordance with the special provisions applicable to companies subject to the small companies regime. The profit and loss account has not been delivered to the Registrar of Companies.
F J Sherman
Director
Approved by the board on 8 February 2024
New Place Hotel Company Limited
Statement of Changes in Equity
for the period from 6 April 2022 to 31 March 2023
Share Share Re- Profit Total
capital premium valuation and loss
reserve account
£ £ £ £ £
At 6 April 2021 1 - - (6,175,408) (6,175,407)
Loss for the financial year (116,742) (116,742)
At 5 April 2022 1 - - (6,292,150) (6,292,149)
At 6 April 2022 1 - - (6,292,150) (6,292,149)
Loss for the period (97,379) (97,379)
At 31 March 2023 1 - - (6,389,529) (6,389,528)
New Place Hotel Company Limited
Notes to the Accounts
for the period from 6 April 2022 to 31 March 2023
1 Accounting policies
Basis of preparation
The accounts have been prepared under the historical cost convention and in accordance with FRS 102, The Financial Reporting Standard applicable in the UK and Republic of Ireland (as applied to small entities by section 1A of the standard).
Turnover
Turnover is measured at the fair value of the consideration received or receivable, net of discounts and value added taxes. Turnover includes revenue earned from the sale of goods and from the rendering of services. Turnover from the sale of goods is recognised when the significant risks and rewards of ownership of the goods have transferred to the buyer. Turnover from the rendering of services is recognised by reference to the stage of completion of the contract. The stage of completion of a contract is measured by comparing the costs incurred for work performed to date to the total estimated contract costs.
Tangible fixed assets
Tangible fixed assets are measured at cost less accumulative depreciation and any accumulative impairment losses. Depreciation is provided on all tangible fixed assets, other than freehold land, at rates calculated to write off the cost, less estimated residual value, of each asset evenly over its expected useful life, as follows:
Plant and machinery 20 % Straight line
Fixtures, fittings, tools and equipment 10 % Straight line
Stocks
Stocks are measured at the lower of cost and estimated selling price less costs to complete and sell. Cost is determined using the first in first out method. The carrying amount of stock sold is recognised as an expense in the period in which the related revenue is recognised.
Debtors
Short term debtors are measured at transaction price (which is usually the invoice price), less any impairment losses for bad and doubtful debts. Loans and other financial assets are initially recognised at transaction price including any transaction costs and subsequently measured at amortised cost determined using the effective interest method, less any impairment losses for bad and doubtful debts.
Creditors
Short term creditors are measured at transaction price (which is usually the invoice price). Loans and other financial liabilities are initially recognised at transaction price net of any transaction costs and subsequently measured at amortised cost determined using the effective interest method.
Taxation
A current tax liability is recognised for the tax payable on the taxable profit of the current and past periods. A current tax asset is recognised in respect of a tax loss that can be carried back to recover tax paid in a previous period. Deferred tax is recognised in respect of all timing differences between the recognition of income and expenses in the financial statements and their inclusion in tax assessments. Unrelieved tax losses and other deferred tax assets are recognised only to the extent that it is probable that they will be recovered against the reversal of deferred tax liabilities or other future taxable profits. Deferred tax is measured using the tax rates and laws that have been enacted or substantively enacted by the reporting date and that are expected to apply to the reversal of the timing difference, except for revalued land and investment property where the tax rate that applies to the sale of the asset is used. Current and deferred tax assets and liabilities are not discounted.
Provisions
Provisions (ie liabilities of uncertain timing or amount) are recognised when there is an obligation at the reporting date as a result of a past event, it is probable that economic benefit will be transferred to settle the obligation and the amount of the obligation can be estimated reliably.
Leased assets
A lease is classified as a finance lease if it transfers substantially all the risks and rewards incidental to ownership. All other leases are classified as operating leases. The rights of use and obligations under finance leases are initially recognised as assets and liabilities at amounts equal to the fair value of the leased assets or, if lower, the present value of the minimum lease payments. Minimum lease payments are apportioned between the finance charge and the reduction in the outstanding liability using the effective interest rate method. The finance charge is allocated to each period during the lease so as to produce a constant periodic rate of interest on the remaining balance of the liability. Leased assets are depreciated in accordance with the company's policy for tangible fixed assets. If there is no reasonable certainty that ownership will be obtained at the end of the lease term, the asset is depreciated over the lower of the lease term and its useful life. Operating lease payments are recognised as an expense on a straight line basis over the lease term.
Pensions
Contributions to defined contribution plans are expensed in the period to which they relate.
2 Employees 2023 2022
Number Number
Average number of persons employed by the company 88 75
3 Tangible fixed assets
Plant and machinery etc
£
Cost
At 6 April 2022 347,979
Additions 442,797
At 31 March 2023 790,776
Depreciation
At 6 April 2022 312,492
Charge for the period 61,027
At 31 March 2023 373,519
Net book value
At 31 March 2023 417,257
At 5 April 2022 35,487
4 Debtors 2023 2022
£ £
Trade debtors 60,792 68,948
Amounts due by group undertakings 1,174,859 938,377
Other debtors 420,587 520,728
1,656,238 1,528,053
5 Creditors: amounts falling due within one year 2023 2022
£ £
Trade creditors 553,547 472,818
Amount owed to group undertakings 7,539,557 4,888,057
Taxation and social security costs 119,414 33,964
Other creditors 657,059 3,250,619
8,869,577 8,645,458
6 Related party transactions
At the balance sheet date, the company was owed £1,174,858 (2022:£Nil) by Wychwood Park Hotel Company Limited, the fellow subsidiary of the company.

At the balance sheet date, the company owed £320,207 (2022:£320,207) to Mokan Co W.L.L, the ulltimate parent of the group.

At the balance sheet date, the company owed £4,067,850 (2022:£4,064,850) to Mokan Guernsey Limited, the previous parent of the company.

At the balance sheet date, the company owed £723,500 (2022:£ Nil) to New Place Property Company Limited, the parent of the company. The rent charged by the parent company to New Place Hotel Company Limited for the financial year was ££600,000 (2022:£500,000).

Included in the creditors is £2,428,000 (2022:£2,428,000) in respect of director's loans.
7 Controlling party
The parent company is Mokan Co.W.L.L, a company resident in Bahrain. There is no ultimate controlling party.
8 Other information
New Place Hotel Company Limited is a private company limited by shares and incorporated in England and Wales. Its registered office is:
New Place Hotel
Shirrell Heath
Southampton
SO32 2JY
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