Company registration number 15329527 (England and Wales)
HOCHTIEF SCL HOLDCO LIMITED
ANNUAL REPORT AND FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 DECEMBER 2025
HOCHTIEF SCL HOLDCO LIMITED
COMPANY INFORMATION
Director
I Prescott
Secretary
A Woolston
Company number
15329527
Registered office
Whitehill House
Windmill Hill Business Park
Whitehill Way
Swindon
Wiltshire
England
SN5 6PE
Auditor
Azets Audit Services Limited
Titanium 1
King's Inch Place
Renfrew
PA4 8WF
HOCHTIEF SCL HOLDCO LIMITED
CONTENTS
Page
Director's report
1
Director's responsibilities statement
2
Independent auditor's report
3 - 4
Profit and loss account
5
Balance sheet
6
Statement of changes in equity
7
Notes to the financial statements
8 - 11
HOCHTIEF SCL HOLDCO LIMITED
DIRECTOR'S REPORT
FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 DECEMBER 2025
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The director presents his annual report and financial statements for the year ended 31 December 2025.

Principal activities

The principal activity of the company continued to be that of an investment holding company.

Results and dividends

The results for the year are set out on page 5.

No ordinary dividends were paid. The director does not recommend payment of a final dividend.

Director

The director who held office during the year and up to the date of signature of the financial statements was as follows:

I Prescott
Auditor

The auditor, Azets Audit Services Limited, is deemed to be reappointed under section 487(2) of the Companies Act 2006.

Statement of disclosure to auditor

So far as each person who was a director at the date of approving this report is aware, there is no relevant audit information of which the company’s auditor is unaware. Additionally, the director individually has taken all the necessary steps that he ought to have taken as a director in order to make himself aware of all relevant audit information and to establish that the company’s auditor is aware of that information.

Small companies exemption

This report has been prepared in accordance with the provisions applicable to companies entitled to the small companies exemption.

On behalf of the board
I Prescott
Director
4 June 2026
HOCHTIEF SCL HOLDCO LIMITED
DIRECTOR'S RESPONSIBILITIES STATEMENT
FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 DECEMBER 2025
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The director is responsible for preparing the annual report and the financial statements in accordance with applicable law and regulations.

United Kingdom company law requires the director to prepare financial statements for each financial year. Under that law, the director has 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, the director must not approve the financial statements unless he is 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 financial statements, the director is required to:

The director is 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 financial statements comply with the Companies Act 2006. He is 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.

HOCHTIEF SCL HOLDCO LIMITED
INDEPENDENT AUDITOR'S REPORT
TO THE MEMBER OF HOCHTIEF SCL HOLDCO LIMITED
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Opinion

We have audited the financial statements of HOCHTIEF SCL HoldCo Limited (the 'company') for the year ended 31 December 2025 which comprise the profit and loss account, the balance sheet, the statement of changes in equity and notes to the financial statements, 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 101 Reduced Disclosure Framework (United Kingdom Generally Accepted Accounting Practice).

In our opinion the financial statements:

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 financial statements section of our report. We are independent of the company in accordance with the ethical requirements that are relevant to our audit of the financial statements in the UK, including the FRC’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.

Conclusions relating to going concern

In auditing the financial statements, we have concluded that the director's 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 company'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 director 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 financial statements and our auditor's report thereon. The director is responsible for the other information contained within the annual report. Our opinion on the financial statements 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 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.

Opinions on other matters prescribed by the Companies Act 2006

In our opinion, based on the work undertaken in the course of our audit:

HOCHTIEF SCL HOLDCO LIMITED
INDEPENDENT AUDITOR'S REPORT
TO THE MEMBER OF HOCHTIEF SCL HOLDCO LIMITED (CONTINUED)
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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 director's 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:

Responsibilities of director

As explained more fully in the director's responsibilities statement, the director is responsible for the preparation of the financial statements and for being satisfied that they give a true and fair view, and for such internal control as the director determines is necessary to enable the preparation of financial statements that are free from material misstatement, whether due to fraud or error. In preparing the financial statements, the director is 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 director either intends to liquidate the company or to cease operations, or has no realistic alternative but to do so.

Auditor's responsibilities for the audit of the financial statements

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.

A further description of our responsibilities is available on the Financial Reporting Council's website at: https://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 member 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 member, those matters we are required to state to the member 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 member, for our audit work, for this report, or for the opinions we have formed.

James McBride (Senior Statutory Auditor)
For and on behalf of Azets Audit Services Limited, Statutory Auditor
Chartered Accountants
Titanium 1
King's Inch Place
Renfrew
PA4 8WF
4 June 2026
HOCHTIEF SCL HOLDCO LIMITED
PROFIT AND LOSS ACCOUNT
FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 DECEMBER 2025
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Year
Period
ended
ended
31 December
31 December
2025
2024
Notes
£
£
Turnover
-
-
Tax on profit
4
463,011
-
0
Profit and total comprehensive income for the year
463,011
-
0

The notes on pages 8 to 11 form part of these financial statements.

HOCHTIEF SCL HOLDCO LIMITED
BALANCE SHEET
AS AT
31 DECEMBER 2025
31 December 2025
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2025
2024
Notes
£
£
£
£
Current assets
Debtors
6
463,111
100
Net current assets
463,111
100
Total assets less current liabilities
463,111
100
Capital and reserves
Called up share capital
7
100
100
Profit and loss reserves
463,011
-
0
Total equity
463,111
100

The notes on pages 8 to 11 form part of these financial statements.

These financial statements have been prepared in accordance with the provisions applicable to companies subject to the small companies regime.

The financial statements were approved and signed by the director and authorised for issue on 4 June 2026
I  Prescott
Director
Company registration number 15329527 (England and Wales)
HOCHTIEF SCL HOLDCO LIMITED
STATEMENT OF CHANGES IN EQUITY
FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 DECEMBER 2025
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Share capital
Profit and loss reserves
Total
Notes
£
£
£
Balance at 5 December 2023
-
-
0
-
Period ended 31 December 2024:
Transactions with owners:
Issue of share capital
7
100
-
100
Balance at 31 December 2024
100
-
0
100
Year ended 31 December 2025:
Profit and total comprehensive income
-
463,011
463,011
Balance at 31 December 2025
100
463,011
463,111

The notes on pages 8 to 11 form part of these financial statements.

HOCHTIEF SCL HOLDCO LIMITED
NOTES TO THE FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 DECEMBER 2025
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1
Accounting policies
Company information

HOCHTIEF SCL HoldCo Limited is a private company limited by shares incorporated in England and Wales. The registered office is Whitehill House, Windmill Hill Business Park, Whitehill Way, Swindon, Wiltshire, England, SN5 6PE. The company's principal activities and nature of its operations are disclosed in the director's report.

1.1
Reporting period

The company was formed on 5 December 2023 and the first financial statements were prepared for the period ended 31 December 2024. The comparative figures in these financial statements represent a period of more than one year and are therefore not entirely comparable.

1.2
Basis of preparation

The financial statements have been prepared in accordance with Financial Reporting Standard 101 Reduced Disclosure Framework (FRS 101) and in accordance with applicable accounting standards.

The financial statements are prepared in sterling, which is the functional currency of the company. Monetary amounts in these financial statements are rounded to the nearest £.

The financial statements have been prepared under the historical cost convention. The principal accounting policies adopted are set out below.

As permitted by FRS 101, the company has taken advantage of the following disclosure exemptions from the requirements of IFRS:

Where required, equivalent disclosures are given in the group accounts of HOCHTIEF PPP Solutions GmbH. The group accounts of HOCHTIEF PPP Solutions GmbH are available to the public and can be obtained from HOCHTIEF SCL HoldCo Limited at it's registered office.

HOCHTIEF SCL HOLDCO LIMITED
NOTES TO THE FINANCIAL STATEMENTS (CONTINUED)
FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 DECEMBER 2025
1
Accounting policies
(Continued)
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1.3
Going concern

The director has at the time of approving the financial statements, a reasonable expectation that the truecompany has adequate resources to continue in operational existence for the foreseeable future. Thus the director continues to adopt the going concern basis of accounting in preparing the financial statements.

 

The company’s principal activity is that of an investment holding company and has minimal day to day working capital requirements.

 

Future investments will be funded through financial support from the HOCHTIEF group headed by HOCHTIEF AG. The first, and only anticipated, such investment is anticipated to be in spring 2026.

 

The director has prepared cash flow forecasts and performed a going concern assessment which indicates that the company will require additional funds, through funding from its immediate parent company, HOCHTIEF PPP Solutions (UK) Limited, to meet its liabilities as they fall due during the 12-month period from the date of approval of the financial statements, the going concern assessment period.

 

HOCHTIEF PPP Solutions (UK) Limited has indicated its intention to continue to make available such funds as are needed by the company during the going concern assessment period. As with any company placing reliance on other group entities for financial support, the director acknowledges that there can be no certainty that this support will continue although, at the date of approval of these financial statements, they have no reason to believe that it will not do so.

1.4
Equity instruments

Equity instruments issued by the company are recorded at the proceeds received, net of direct issue costs. Dividends payable on equity instruments are recognised as liabilities once they are no longer at the discretion of the company.

1.5
Taxation

The tax expense represents the sum of the tax currently payable and deferred tax.

Current tax

The tax currently payable is based on taxable profit for the year. Taxable profit differs from net profit as reported in the profit and loss account because it excludes items of income or expense that are taxable or deductible in other years and it further excludes items that are never taxable or deductible. The company’s liability for current tax is calculated using tax rates that have been enacted or substantively enacted by the reporting end date.

The company holds an investment in a Limited Liability Partnership (LLP) which is itself transparent for income tax purposes. The company's liability for current tax includes an allocation of the LLP's taxable profit or loss.

Deferred tax

Deferred tax is the tax expected to be payable or recoverable on differences between the carrying amounts of assets and liabilities in the financial statements and the corresponding tax bases used in the computation of taxable profit, and is accounted for using the balance sheet liability method. Deferred tax liabilities are generally recognised for all taxable temporary differences and deferred tax assets are recognised to the extent that it is probable that taxable profits will be available against which deductible temporary differences can be utilised. Such assets and liabilities are not recognised if the temporary difference arises from goodwill or from the initial recognition of other assets and liabilities in a transaction that affects neither the tax profit nor the accounting profit.

HOCHTIEF SCL HOLDCO LIMITED
NOTES TO THE FINANCIAL STATEMENTS (CONTINUED)
FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 DECEMBER 2025
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2
Auditor's remuneration
2025
2024
Fees payable to the company's auditor and associates:
£
£
For audit services
Audit of the financial statements of the company
4,200
4,000

Auditor’s remuneration is borne by the company’s parent undertaking, HOCHTIEF PPP Solutions (UK) Limited.

3
Employees

The average monthly number of persons (including directors) employed by the company during the year was:

2025
2024
Number
Number
Directors
1
1

The company had no employees apart from the director. The director is employed and remunerated by the immediate parent undertaking, HOCHTIEF PPP Solutions (UK) Limited.

4
Taxation
2025
2024
£
£
Current tax
Other tax reliefs
(463,011)
-

The charge for the year can be reconciled to the loss per the profit and loss account as follows:

2025
2024
£
£
Loss before taxation
-
0
-
0
Expected tax charge based on a corporation tax rate of 25.00% (2024: 25.00%)
-
0
-
0
Group relief
(463,011)
-
0
Taxation credit for the year
(463,011)
-

The company holds an interest in an LLP which is itself transparent for income tax purposes. The company's liability for current tax includes an allocation of the LLP's taxable profit or loss.

 

The 2024/25 partnership tax return of the LLP apportioned £1,852,042 of tax losses to the company. These losses were fully surrendered to other members of the UK tax group via group relief.

HOCHTIEF SCL HOLDCO LIMITED
NOTES TO THE FINANCIAL STATEMENTS (CONTINUED)
FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 DECEMBER 2025
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5
Associates

Details of the company's associates at 31 December 2025 are as follows:

Name of undertaking
Registered office
Principal activities
Class of
% Held
shares held
Direct
Staffordshire Campus Living LLP
Whitehill House, Windmill Hill            Business Park, Whitehill Way,             Swindon, SN5 6PE
Construction and operation of student accomodation
Member capital
42.50

The investments in associates are all stated at cost.

As at 31 December 2025 no member capital had been paid to Staffordshire Campus Living LLP (2024: £nil).

6
Debtors
2025
2024
£
£
Amounts owed by fellow group undertakings
463,111
100
7
Share capital
2025
2024
2025
2024
Ordinary share capital
Number
Number
£
£
Issued and fully paid
Ordinary of £1 each
100
100
100
100
8
Capital commitments

The company is committed to pay capital contributions of £7,126,881 (2024: £7,126,881) to Staffordshire Campus Living LLP between May and August 2026.

9
Controlling party

The parent company of HOCHTIEF SCL HoldCo Limited is HOCHTIEF PPP Solutions (UK) Limited and its registered office is Whitehill House, Windmill Hill Business Park, Whitehill Way, Swindon, SN5 6PE.

 

The ultimate parent company of HOCHTIEF SCL HoldCo Limited is ACS Actividades De Construccion Y Servicios S.A., a company incorporated and registered in Spain, at Avda. Pio X11 102, 28036 Madrid, Spain.

The following are the parents of the largest and smallest groups in which this company's results are consolidated:

Largest group
ACS Actividades de Construccion y Servicios S.A
Smallest group
HOCHTIEF PPP Solutions GmbH
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