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Administration · 11 June 2026

Ardmore Construction Group

Main contractor · London · Greater London · Part of Ardmore

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What happened

ARDMORE CONSTRUCTION GROUP LTD (company number 11890551), incorporated in 2019, entered administration on 11 June 2026. Its status at Companies House is now: administration.

Why it failed

After subsidiary Ardmore Construction entered administration the company faced Building Safety Act claims, and Crest Nicholson won an unpaid fire-safety judgment against it, so it was placed into administration.

  • Main reason: Legal claims
  • Group company failed

Our summary of the reasons given in the administrators' proposals. These record the administrators' and directors' account of what happened.

An administrator, a licensed insolvency practitioner, takes control of the company to try to rescue it, sell the business or get a better result for creditors than a liquidation.

Timeline

The last accounts and payment report before the failure, then what happened, with the time between each.

  1. 30 September 2024

    Last accounts filed were made up to this date

    21 months later

  2. 11 June 2026

    Administration started

AccountsPayment reportInsolvency

Before it failed

Key figures

Turnover in its last accounts, year to Sept 2024
£343.8m
Accounts at Companies House
Loss before tax, year to Sept 2024
£42.6m
Accounts at Companies House
Staff, year to Sept 2024
541
Accounts at Companies House
Net liabilities, year to Sept 2024
£28.1m
Accounts at Companies House
Owed to unsecured creditors (estimated), as at 11 June 2026
£10.6m
of which trade creditors £3.7m. HMRC owed £5.7m. Expected return to unsecured creditors: none expected
Administrators' proposals (excludes a £15m adjudicated claim and building safety claims)

The last accounts filed were group accounts made up to 30 September 2024, 20 months before it went into administration.

The full filing history, including any late filings, charges and director changes, is on Companies House.

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