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Registration number: SC218227

Landscape Design Contracts Limited

Unaudited Filleted Financial Statements

for the Year Ended 30 April 2024

 

Landscape Design Contracts Limited

Contents

Company Information

1

Accountants' Report

2

Balance Sheet

3 to 4

Notes to the Financial Statements

5 to 11

 

Landscape Design Contracts Limited

Company Information

Directors

Mr D McFadzean

Mr C Pohlen

Registered office

 

The Land
Standhill Road
Bathgate
West Lothian
EH48 2HT

Accountants

Glen Drummond Ltd
Chartered Accountants
Argyll House
Quarrywood Court
Livingston
West Lothian
EH54 6AX

 

Chartered Accountants' Report to the Board of Directors on the Preparation of the Unaudited Statutory Accounts of
Landscape Design Contracts Limited
for the Year Ended 30 April 2024

In order to assist you to fulfil your duties under the Companies Act 2006, we have prepared for your approval the accounts of Landscape Design Contracts Limited for the year ended 30 April 2024 as set out on pages 3 to 11 from the company's accounting records and from information and explanations you have given us.

As a practising member firm of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Scotland, we are subject to its ethical and other professional requirements which are detailed at http://www.icas.com/accountspreparationguidance.

This report is made solely to the Board of Directors of Landscape Design Contracts Limited, as a body, in accordance with the terms of our engagement letter. Our work has been undertaken solely to prepare for your approval the accounts of Landscape Design Contracts Limited and state those matters that we have agreed to state to the Board of Directors of Landscape Design Contracts Limited, as a body, in this report in accordance with the requirements of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Scotland as detailed at http://www.icas.com/accountspreparationguidance. To the fullest extent permitted by law, we do not accept or assume responsibility to anyone other than Landscape Design Contracts Limited and its Board of Directors as a body for our work or for this report.

It is your duty to ensure that Landscape Design Contracts Limited has kept adequate accounting records and to prepare statutory accounts that give a true and fair view of the assets, liabilities, financial position and profit of Landscape Design Contracts Limited. You consider that Landscape Design Contracts Limited is exempt from the statutory audit requirement for the year.

We have not been instructed to carry out an audit or a review of the accounts of Landscape Design Contracts Limited. For this reason, we have not verified the accuracy or completeness of the accounting records or information and explanations you have given to us and we do not, therefore, express any opinion on the statutory accounts.

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Glen Drummond Ltd
Chartered Accountants
Argyll House
Quarrywood Court
Livingston
West Lothian
EH54 6AX

9 January 2025

 

Landscape Design Contracts Limited

(Registration number: SC218227)
Balance Sheet as at 30 April 2024

Note

2024
£

2023
£

Fixed assets

 

Tangible assets

4

948,415

906,032

Current assets

 

Stocks

5

1,356,062

1,197,519

Debtors

6

416,955

512,866

Cash at bank and in hand

 

189,731

57,785

 

1,962,748

1,768,170

Creditors: Amounts falling due within one year

7

(1,774,479)

(1,532,716)

Net current assets

 

188,269

235,454

Total assets less current liabilities

 

1,136,684

1,141,486

Creditors: Amounts falling due after more than one year

7

(545,924)

(642,273)

Provisions for liabilities

(233,347)

(207,214)

Net assets

 

357,413

291,999

Capital and reserves

 

Called up share capital

9

2,102

2,102

Retained earnings

355,311

289,897

Shareholders' funds

 

357,413

291,999

For the financial year ending 30 April 2024 the company was entitled to exemption from audit under section 477 of the Companies Act 2006 relating to small companies.

Directors' responsibilities:

The members have not required the company to obtain an audit of its accounts for the year in question in accordance with section 476; and

The directors acknowledge their responsibilities for complying with the requirements of the Act with respect to accounting records and the preparation of accounts.

These financial statements have been prepared in accordance with the special provisions relating to companies subject to the small companies regime within Part 15 of the Companies Act 2006.

 

Landscape Design Contracts Limited

(Registration number: SC218227)
Balance Sheet as at 30 April 2024

These financial statements have been delivered in accordance with the provisions applicable to companies subject to the small companies regime. As permitted by section 444 (5A) of the Companies Act 2006, the directors have not delivered to the registrar a copy of the Profit and Loss Account.

Approved and authorised by the Board on 9 January 2025 and signed on its behalf by:
 

.........................................
Mr C Pohlen
Director

 

Landscape Design Contracts Limited

Notes to the Financial Statements for the Year Ended 30 April 2024

1

General information

The company is a private company limited by share capital, incorporated in Scotland.

The address of its registered office is:
The Land
Standhill Road
Bathgate
West Lothian
EH48 2HT

These financial statements were authorised for issue by the Board on 9 January 2025.

2

Accounting policies

Summary of significant accounting policies and key accounting estimates

The principal accounting policies applied in the preparation of these financial statements are set out below. These policies have been consistently applied to all the years presented, unless otherwise stated.

Statement of compliance

These financial statements have been prepared in accordance with the provisions of Section 1A "Small Entities" of Financial Reporting Standard 102 "The Financial Reporting Standard applicable in the UK and Republic of Ireland" and the Companies Act 2006. There were no material departures from that standard.

Basis of preparation

These financial statements have been prepared using the historical cost convention except that as disclosed in the accounting policies certain items are shown at fair value.

The presentation currency of the financial statements is the Pound Sterling (£).

Going concern

The financial statements have been prepared on a going concern basis.

Revenue recognition

Turnover comprises the fair value of the consideration derived from that of landscape gardening. Turnover is shown net of sales/value added tax, returns, rebates and discounts and after eliminating sales within the company.

 

Landscape Design Contracts Limited

Notes to the Financial Statements for the Year Ended 30 April 2024

Tax

The tax expense for the period comprises current and deferred tax. Tax is recognised in the profit and loss account, except to the extent that it relates to items recognised in other comprehensive income or directly in equity.

The current income tax charge is calculated on the basis of tax rates and laws that have been enacted or substantively enacted by the reporting date in the countries where the company operates and generates taxable income.

Deferred tax is recognised in respect of all timing differences between taxable profits and profits reported in the financial statements.

Unrelieved tax losses and other deferred tax assets are recognised when 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.

Tangible assets

Tangible assets are stated in the balance sheet at cost, less any subsequent accumulated depreciation and subsequent accumulated impairment losses.

The cost of tangible assets includes directly attributable incremental costs incurred in their acquisition and installation.

At the balance sheet date, the company reviews the carrying amounts of its tangible fixed assets to determine whether there is any indication that any items have suffered an impairment loss. If any such indication exists, the recoverable amount of an asset is estimated in order to determine the extent of the impairment loss. Where it is not possible to estimate the recoverable amount of the asset, the company estimates the recoverable amount of the cash-generating unit to which the asset belongs.

Expenditure of £500 or more on individual tangible fixed assets is capitalised at cost. Expenditure on assets below this threshold is charged directly to the profit and loss account in the period it is incurred.

Depreciation

Depreciation is charged so as to write off the cost of assets, other than land and properties under construction over their estimated useful lives, as follows:

Asset class

Depreciation method and rate

Motor vehicles

25% reducing balance

Plant and machinery

25% and 20% on cost

 

Landscape Design Contracts Limited

Notes to the Financial Statements for the Year Ended 30 April 2024

Stocks

Stocks are stated at the lower of cost and estimated selling price less costs to complete and sell. Cost is determined using the first-in, first-out (FIFO) method.

The cost of finished goods and work in progress comprises direct materials and, where applicable, direct labour costs and those overheads that have been incurred in bringing the inventories to their present location and condition. At each reporting date, stocks are assessed for impairment. If stocks are impaired, the carrying amount is reduced to its selling price less costs to complete and sell; the impairment loss is recognised immediately in profit or loss.

Borrowings

Interest-bearing borrowings are initially recorded at fair value, net of transaction costs. Interest-bearing borrowings are subsequently carried at amortised cost, with the difference between the proceeds, net of transaction costs, and the amount due on redemption being recognised as a charge to the profit and loss account over the period of the relevant borrowing.

Interest expense is recognised on the basis of the effective interest method and is included in interest payable and similar charges.

Borrowings are classified as current liabilities unless the company has an unconditional right to defer settlement of the liability for at least twelve months after the reporting date.

Leases

Leases in which substantially all the risks and rewards of ownership are retained by the lessor are classified as operating leases. Payments made under operating leases are charged to profit or loss on a straight-line basis over the period of the lease.

Leases are classified as finance leases whenever the terms of the lease transfer substantially all the risks and rewards of ownership to the lessee.

Assets held under finance leases are recognised at the lower of their fair value at inception of the lease and the present value of the minimum lease payments. These assets are depreciated on a straight-line basis over the shorter of the useful life of the asset and the lease term. The corresponding liability to the lessor is included in the balance sheet as a finance lease obligation.

Lease payments are apportioned between finance costs in the profit and loss account and reduction of the lease obligation so as to achieve a constant periodic rate of interest on the remaining balance of the liability.

Defined contribution pension obligation

A defined contribution plan is a pension plan under which fixed contributions are paid into a pension fund and the company has no legal or constructive obligation to pay further contributions even if the fund does not hold sufficient assets to pay all employees the benefits relating to employee service in the current and prior periods.

Contributions to defined contribution plans are recognised as employee benefit expense when they are due. If contribution payments exceed the contribution due for service, the excess is recognised as a prepayment.

 

Landscape Design Contracts Limited

Notes to the Financial Statements for the Year Ended 30 April 2024

Financial instruments

Financial instruments are classified and accounted for, according to the substance of the contractual arrangement, as financial assets, financial liabilities or equity instruments. An equity instrument is any contract that evidences a residual interest in the assets of the company after deducting all of its liabilities. Where shares are issued, any component that creates a financial liability of the company is presented as a liability in the balance sheet. The corresponding dividends relating to the liability component are charged as interest expense in the profit and loss account.

3

Staff numbers

The average number of persons employed by the company (including directors) during the year was 69 (2023 - 39).

 

Landscape Design Contracts Limited

Notes to the Financial Statements for the Year Ended 30 April 2024

4

Tangible assets

Plant and machinery
£

Motor vehicles
 £

Total
£

Cost or valuation

At 1 May 2023

1,095,202

1,182,291

2,277,493

Additions

86,681

384,920

471,601

Disposals

-

(236,219)

(236,219)

At 30 April 2024

1,181,883

1,330,992

2,512,875

Depreciation

At 1 May 2023

723,047

648,412

1,371,459

Charge for the year

145,798

211,793

357,591

Eliminated on disposal

-

(164,590)

(164,590)

At 30 April 2024

868,845

695,615

1,564,460

Carrying amount

At 30 April 2024

313,038

635,377

948,415

At 30 April 2023

372,154

533,878

906,032

5

Stocks

2024
£

2023
£

Work in progress

1,176,602

1,076,928

Stock

179,460

120,591

1,356,062

1,197,519

6

Debtors

2024
£

2023
£

Trade debtors

342,302

350,155

Prepayments

11,699

34,497

Other debtors

62,954

128,214

416,955

512,866

 

Landscape Design Contracts Limited

Notes to the Financial Statements for the Year Ended 30 April 2024

7

Creditors

Creditors: amounts falling due within one year

Note

2024
£

2023
£

Due within one year

 

Loans and borrowings

8

356,016

314,615

Trade creditors

 

825,432

780,898

Taxation and social security

 

153,743

103,419

Accruals and deferred income

 

47,010

42,296

Other creditors

 

392,278

291,488

 

1,774,479

1,532,716

Creditors: amounts falling due after more than one year

Note

2024
£

2023
£

Due after one year

 

Loans and borrowings

8

545,924

642,273

8

Loans and borrowings

Non-current loans and borrowings

2024
£

2023
£

Bank borrowings

72,727

145,454

Hire purchase contracts

473,197

496,819

545,924

642,273

The hire purchase and finance lease liabilities are secured over the assets concerned. There is also a floating charge over the assets and undertakings of the company.

The bank loan is supported by a 100% guarantee from the UK Government.

 

Landscape Design Contracts Limited

Notes to the Financial Statements for the Year Ended 30 April 2024

9

Share capital

Allotted, called up and fully paid shares

2024

2023

No.

£

No.

£

Ordinary shares of £1 each

2,102

2,102

2,102

2,102

       

10

Related party transactions

The company operates a loan account with the director, Mr C Pohlen.
During the year, the director advanced loans totalling £84,929 to the company. At the year end, the balance due to the director was £96,934 (2023 - £12,005). This loan is unsecured, interest free and has no fixed repayment terms.