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MEMBERS' REPORT
FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 MARCH 2025
The Members present their annual report together with the audited financial statements of PRP Architecture LLP (the "LLP") for the ended 31 March 2025.
Principal activities
The principal activity of the LLP during the year was the provision of architectural and other related consultancy services.
The PRP group is an interdisciplinary design led practice with over 60 years’ experience in housing design and urban planning. We deliver responsive, intelligent and enduring design solutions through a collaborative and knowledge based approach. With our extensive team of architects and range of professional services we create places of distinction and purpose.
We deliver responsive, intelligence and enduring design solutions through a collaborative and knowledge-based approach. With our extensive team of architects and range of professional services we create places of distinction and purpose.
Our approach focuses on communication and understanding. With thought, experience and innovation PRP ensures to meet the needs of the client and wider community. Through internal review, integrated specialist teams and commercial awareness we are able to fully understand the brief and guide its development and direction.
We have a diverse and award winning portfolio that demonstrates our ability within the various sectors of housing. We believe that all housing should be uplifting efficient and capable of creating lasting communities.
PRP employs over 250 staff with studios in London, Surrey and Manchester. Our work is primarily UK based with experience internationally.
The PRP group is an interdisciplinary design led practice with over 60 years’ experience in housing design and urban planning. We deliver responsive, intelligent and enduring design solutions through a collaborative and knowledge based approach. With our extensive team of architects and range of professional services we create places of distinction and purpose.
We deliver responsive, intelligence and enduring design solutions through a collaborative and knowledge-based approach. With our extensive team of architects and range of professional services we create places of distinction and purpose.
Our approach focuses on communication and understanding. With thought, experience and innovation PRP ensures to meet the needs of the client and wider community. Through internal review, integrated specialist teams and commercial awareness we are able to fully understand the brief and guide its development and direction.
We have a diverse and award winning portfolio that demonstrates our ability within the various sectors of housing. We believe that all housing should be uplifting efficient and capable of creating lasting communities.
PRP employs over 250 staff with studios in London, Surrey and Manchester. Our work is primarily UK based with experience internationally.
Designated Members
The following were designated members of the LLP throughout the period:
PRP Group LLP
J Buterchi
N T Griffiths
R Harvey
A J Mellor
S Sanderson
C Sheach
A J Weir
B A Kilpatrick (resigned 10 April 2024)
M Patel (resigned 10 April 2024)
PRP Group LLP
J Buterchi
N T Griffiths
R Harvey
A J Mellor
S Sanderson
C Sheach
A J Weir
B A Kilpatrick (resigned 10 April 2024)
M Patel (resigned 10 April 2024)
Members' capital and interests
Each Member's subscription to the capital of the LLP is determined by their share of the profit and is repayable following retirement from the LLP.
Details of changes in Members' capital in the ended 31 March 2025 are set out in the Reconciliation of Members' Interests.
Members are remunerated from the profits of the LLP and are required to make their own provision for pensions and other benefits. Profits are allocated and divided between Members after finalisation of the financial statements. Members draw a proportion of their profit shares monthly during the year in which it is made, with the balance of profits being distributed after the year, subject to the cash requirements of the business.
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MEMBERS' REPORT (CONTINUED)
FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 MARCH 2025
Members' responsibilities statement
The Members are responsible for preparing the annual report and the financial statements in accordance with applicable law and regulations.
Company law, (as applied by The Limited Liability Partnerships (Accounts and Audit) (Application of Companies Act 2006) Regulations 2008), requires the Members to prepare financial statements for each financial year. Under that law the Members have elected to prepare the financial statements in accordance with United Kingdom Generally Accepted Accounting Practice (United Kingdom Accounting Standards and applicable law). Under company law, (as applied by The Limited Liability Partnerships (Accounts and Audit) (Application of Companies Act 2006) Regulations 2008) the Members must not approve the financial statements unless they are satisfied that they give a true and fair view of the state of affairs of the LLP and of the profit or loss of the LLP for that period.
In preparing these financial statements, the Members are required to:
∙select suitable accounting policies and then apply them consistently;
∙make judgements and accounting estimates that are reasonable and prudent;
∙prepare the financial statements on the going concern basis unless it is inappropriate to presume that the LLP will continue in business.
The Members are responsible for keeping adequate accounting records that are sufficient to show and explain the LLP's transactions and disclose with reasonable accuracy at any time the financial position of the LLP and to enable them to ensure that the financial statements comply with the Companies Act 2006 (as applied by The Limited Liability Partnerships (Accounts and Audit) (Application of the Companies Act 2006) Regulations 2008). They are also responsible for safeguarding the assets of the LLP and hence for taking reasonable steps for the prevention and detection of fraud and other irregularities.
Disclosure of information to auditor
Each of the persons who are Members at the time when this Members' Report is approved has confirmed that:
∙so far as that Member is aware, there is no relevant audit information of which the LLP's auditor is unaware, and
∙that Member has taken all the steps that ought to have been taken as a Member in order to be aware of any relevant audit information and to establish that the LLP's auditor is aware of that information.
Auditor
The auditors, Menzies LLP, have indicated their willingness to continue in office. In accordance with section 487 (2) of the Companies Act 2006 as applied to limited liability partnerships, the Limited Liability Partnerships (Accounts and Audit) (Application of Companies Act 2006) Regulations 2008, Menzies LLP are deemed to be reappointed.
This report was approved by the Members and signed on their behalf by:
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INDEPENDENT AUDITOR'S REPORT TO THE MEMBERS OF PRP ARCHITECTURE LLP
We have audited the financial statements of PRP Architecture LLP (the 'LLP') for the year ended 31 March 2025, which comprise the Statement of Comprehensive Income, the Statement of Financial Position, the Reconciliation of Members' Interests and the related notes, including a summary of 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 Republic of Ireland' (United Kingdom Generally Accepted Accounting Practice).
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 financial statements section of our report. We are independent of the LLP in accordance with the ethical requirements that are relevant to our audit of the financial statements in the United Kingdom, including the Financial Reporting Council's Ethical Standard, 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 auditing the financial statements, we have concluded that the Members' use of the going concern basis of accounting in the preparation of the financial statements 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 LLP's ability to continue as a going concern for a period of at least twelve months from when the financial statements are authorised for issue.
Our responsibilities and the responsibilities of the Members with respect to going concern are described in the relevant sections of this report.
The other information comprises the information included in the Annual Report other than the financial statements and our Auditor's Report thereon. The Members are responsible for the other information contained within the Annual Report. Our opinion on the financial statements does not cover the other information and 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 financial statements 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 financial statements 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.
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INDEPENDENT AUDITOR'S REPORT TO THE MEMBERS OF PRP ARCHITECTURE LLP (CONTINUED)
Our objectives are to obtain reasonable assurance about whether the financial statements 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 financial statements.
Irregularities, including fraud, are instances of non-compliance with laws and regulations. We design procedures in line with our responsibilities, outlined above, to detect material misstatements in respect of irregularities, including fraud. The extent to which our procedures are capable of detecting irregularities, including fraud is detailed below:
The LLP is subject to laws and regulations that directly affect the financial statements including financial reporting legislation. We determined that the following laws and regulations were most significant:
∙The Companies Act 2006;
∙Financial Reporting Standard 102;
∙General Data Protection Regulations; and
∙UK tax legislation.
We assessed the extent of compliance with these laws and regulations as part of our procedures on the related financial statement items.
We understood how the LLP is complying with those legal and regulatory frameworks by making inquiries to management and those responsible for legal and compliance procedures.
The engagement partner assessed whether the engagement team collectively had the appropriate competence and capabilities to identify or recognise non-compliance with laws and regulations. We did not identify any issues in this area.
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INDEPENDENT AUDITOR'S REPORT TO THE MEMBERS OF PRP ARCHITECTURE LLP (CONTINUED)
We assessed the susceptibility of the LLP’s financial statements to material misstatement, including how fraud might occur. Audit procedures performed by the engagement team included:
∙Identifying and assessing the design effectiveness of controls management has in place to prevent and detect fraud;
∙Understanding how those charged with governance considered and addressed the potential for override of controls or other inappropriate influence over the financial reporting process;
∙Challenging assumptions and judgements made by management in its significant accounting estimates; and
∙Identifying and testing journal entries, in particular any journal entries posted outside of the normal working patterns of the accounts team, or with unusual descriptions or account combinations.
As a result of the above procedures, we considered the opportunities and incentives that may exist within the organisation for fraud and identified the greatest potential for fraud in the following areas:
∙The application of inappropriate judgements or estimation to manipulate the financial position in the calculation of the year end provisions;
∙The posting of unusual journals and complex transactions; or
∙The use of management override of controls to manipulate results.
Because of the inherent limitations of an audit, there is a risk that we will not detect all irregularities, including those leading to a material misstatement in the financial statements or non-compliance with regulation. This risk increases the more that compliance with a law or regulation is removed from the events and transactions reflected in the financial statements, as we will be less likely to become aware of instances of non-compliance. The risk is also greater regarding irregularities occurring due to fraud rather than error, as fraud involves intentional concealment, forgery, collusion, omission or misrepresentation.
A further description of our responsibilities for the audit of the financial statements is located on the Financial Reporting Council's website at: www.frc.org.uk/auditorsresponsibilities. This description forms part of our Auditor's Report.
This report is made solely to the LLP's members, as a body, in accordance with Chapter 3 of Part 16 of the Companies Act 2006, as applied by Part 12 of The Limited Liability Partnerships (Accounts and Audit) (Applications of Companies Act 2006) Regulations 2008. Our audit work has been undertaken so that we might state to the LLP'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 LLP and the LLP's members, as a body, for our audit work, for this report, or for the opinions we have formed.
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Chartered Accountants
Statutory Auditor
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STATEMENT OF COMPREHENSIVE INCOME
FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 MARCH 2025
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STATEMENT OF FINANCIAL POSITION
AS AT 31 MARCH 2025
The financial statements were approved and authorised for issue by the Members and were signed on their behalf by:
The notes on pages 9 to 15 form part of these financial statements.
PRP Architecture LLP has no equity and, in accordance with the provisions contained within the Statement of Recommended Practice "Accounting by Limited Liability Partnerships", has not presented a Statement of Changes in Equity.
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RECONCILIATION OF MEMBERS' INTERESTS
FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 MARCH 2025
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NOTES TO THE FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 MARCH 2025
PRP Architecture LLP is a limited liability partnership incorporated and domiciled in England & Wales. The address of the registered office is given on the LLP's Information page.
2.Accounting policies
The financial statements have been prepared under the historical cost convention unless otherwise specified within these accounting policies and in accordance with Financial Reporting Standard 102, the Financial Reporting Standard applicable in the UK and the Republic of Ireland and the Companies Act 2006 and the requirements of the Statement of Recommended Practice "Accounting by Limited Liability Partnerships".
The preparation of financial statements in compliance with FRS 102 requires the use of certain critical accounting estimates. It also requires management to exercise judgement in applying the LLP's accounting policies (see note 3).
The following principal accounting policies have been applied:
The LLP has taken advantage of the following disclosure exemptions in preparing these financial statements, as permitted by the FRS 102 "The Financial Reporting Standard applicable in the UK and Republic of Ireland":
∙the requirements of Section 7 Statement of Cash Flows;
∙the requirements of Section 3 Financial Statement Presentation paragraph 3.17(d);
∙the requirements of Section 11 Financial Instruments paragraphs 11.42, 11.44 to 11.45, 11.47, 11.48(a)(iii), 11.48(a)(iv), 11.48(b) and 11.48(c);
∙the requirements of Section 12 Other Financial Instruments paragraphs 12.26 to 12.27, 12.29(a), 12.29(b) and 12.29A;
∙the requirements of Section 33 Related Party Disclosures paragraph 33.7.
This information is included in the consolidated financial statements of PRP Group LLP as at 31 March 2025 and these financial statements may be obtained from Companies House.
Functional and presentation currency
Transactions and balances
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NOTES TO THE FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 MARCH 2025
2.Accounting policies (continued)
Due to the length of the majority of the contracts, turnover is recognised on a Long Term Contract basis.
Revenue therefore represents the value of work performed in the year, by reference to the estimated stage of completion of contracts, except where the profit on a contract cannot be foreseen with reasonable certainty. In this case sufficient turnover is recognised to match costs incurred to revenues received.
Full provision is made for all known or expected losses on individual contracts, immediately as such losses are
foreseen.
Work performed in excess of amounts invoiced is included within amounts recoverable on long term contracts within debtors. Payments on account, included in creditors, represents the excess of payments on account not offset against long term contract balances within work in progress.
The LLP has elected to apply the provisions of Section 11 “Basic Financial Instruments” of FRS 102 to all of its financial instruments.
Financial instruments are recognised in the LLP's Statement of Financial Position when the LLP becomes party to the contractual provisions of the instrument.
Financial assets and liabilities are offset, with the net amounts presented in the financial statements, when there is a legally enforceable right to set off the recognised amounts and there is an intention to settle on a net basis or to realise the asset and settle the liability simultaneously.
Basic financial assets
Basic financial assets, which include trade and other debtors, cash and bank balances, are initially measured at their transaction price (adjusted for transaction costs except in the initial measurement of financial assets that are subsequently measured at fair value through profit and loss) and are subsequently carried at their amortised cost using the effective interest method, less any provision for impairment, unless the arrangement constitutes a financing transaction, where the transaction is measured at the present value of the future receipts discounted at a market rate of interest.
Discounting is omitted where the effect of discounting is immaterial. The LLP's cash and cash equivalents, trade and most other debtors due with the operating cycle fall into this category of financial instruments.
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NOTES TO THE FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 MARCH 2025
2.Accounting policies (continued)
Members are personally liable for taxation on their share of the profits of the limited liability partnership in the relevant tax jurisdictions. Consequently, no reserve for the tax liabilities arising on such profits is made in the financial statements in respect of members' tax liabilities, and the profits are shown within members' interests or as 'Loans and other debts due from members' without any deduction for tax.
Members' participation rights are the rights of a member against the LLP that arise under the members' agreement.
Members' participation rights in the earnings or assets of the LLP are analysed between those that are, from the LLP's perspective, either a financial liability or equity, in accordance with Section 22 of FRS 102 'The Financial Reporting Standard applicable in the UK and the Republic of Ireland', and the requirements of the Statement of Recommended Practice 'Accounting by Limited Liability Partnerships'. A member's participation right results in a liability unless the right to any payment is discretionary on the part of the LLP.
Amounts subscribed or otherwise contributed by members, for example members' capital, are classed as equity if the LLP has an unconditional right to refuse payment to members. If the LLP does not have such an unconditional right, such amounts are classified as liabilities.
Where profits are automatically divided as they arise, so the LLP does not have an unconditional right to refuse payment, the amounts arising that are due to members are in the nature of liabilities. They are therefore treated as an expense in the Profit and Loss Account in the relevant year. To the extent that they remain unpaid at the year end, they are shown as liabilities in the Balance Sheet.
Conversely, where profits are divided only after a decision by the LLP or its representative, so that the LLP has an unconditional right to refuse payment, such profits are classed as an appropriation of equity rather than as an expense. They are therefore shown as a residual amount available for discretionary division among members in the Statement of comprehensive income and are equity appropriations in the Statetement of financial position.
Other amounts applied to members, for example remuneration paid under an employment contract and interest on capital balances, are treated in the same way as all other divisions of profits, as described above, according to whether the LLP has, in each case, an unconditional right to refuse payment.
All amounts due to members that are classified as liabilities are presented in the Statement of financial position within 'Loans and other debts due to members' and are charged to the Statement of comprehensive income within 'Members' remuneration charged as an expense'. Amounts due to members that are classified as equity are shown in the Statement of financial position within 'Members' other interests'.
A member’s share in the LLP’s profit for the year is determined at the start of the year and is therefore included as Members’ remuneration charged as an expense. Any remaining profit recognised for discretionary division is allocated to members in the following period.
The amounts paid to the members’ under the terms of the LLP agreement comprise Members’ remuneration charged as an expense , together with the other division of profits in the year.
Members' participation rights in the earnings or assets of the LLP are analysed between those that are, from the LLP's perspective, either a financial liability or equity, in accordance with Section 22 of FRS 102 'The Financial Reporting Standard applicable in the UK and the Republic of Ireland', and the requirements of the Statement of Recommended Practice 'Accounting by Limited Liability Partnerships'. A member's participation right results in a liability unless the right to any payment is discretionary on the part of the LLP.
Amounts subscribed or otherwise contributed by members, for example members' capital, are classed as equity if the LLP has an unconditional right to refuse payment to members. If the LLP does not have such an unconditional right, such amounts are classified as liabilities.
Where profits are automatically divided as they arise, so the LLP does not have an unconditional right to refuse payment, the amounts arising that are due to members are in the nature of liabilities. They are therefore treated as an expense in the Profit and Loss Account in the relevant year. To the extent that they remain unpaid at the year end, they are shown as liabilities in the Balance Sheet.
Conversely, where profits are divided only after a decision by the LLP or its representative, so that the LLP has an unconditional right to refuse payment, such profits are classed as an appropriation of equity rather than as an expense. They are therefore shown as a residual amount available for discretionary division among members in the Statement of comprehensive income and are equity appropriations in the Statetement of financial position.
Other amounts applied to members, for example remuneration paid under an employment contract and interest on capital balances, are treated in the same way as all other divisions of profits, as described above, according to whether the LLP has, in each case, an unconditional right to refuse payment.
All amounts due to members that are classified as liabilities are presented in the Statement of financial position within 'Loans and other debts due to members' and are charged to the Statement of comprehensive income within 'Members' remuneration charged as an expense'. Amounts due to members that are classified as equity are shown in the Statement of financial position within 'Members' other interests'.
A member’s share in the LLP’s profit for the year is determined at the start of the year and is therefore included as Members’ remuneration charged as an expense. Any remaining profit recognised for discretionary division is allocated to members in the following period.
The amounts paid to the members’ under the terms of the LLP agreement comprise Members’ remuneration charged as an expense , together with the other division of profits in the year.
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NOTES TO THE FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 MARCH 2025
The key estimates and other sources of estimation uncertainty that have a significant risk of causing a material adjustment to the carrying amount of assets and liabilities within the next financial year are as follows:
Long term contracts
Revenue is recognised progressively in line with the completion of projects, percentage completion is determined by the proportion of project cost incurred to date compared to total project cost to completion. Revenue, deferred income and amounts recoverable on contracts are sensitive to changes in those estimates.
The whole of the turnover is attributable to the provision of architectural and other related consultancy services.
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NOTES TO THE FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 MARCH 2025
All remuneration is allocated to its parent, PRP Group LLP.
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NOTES TO THE FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 MARCH 2025
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NOTES TO THE FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 MARCH 2025
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