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Administration · 19 December 2019

Bardsley Construction

Main contractor · Dukinfield · North West England

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What happened

BARDSLEY CONSTRUCTION LIMITED (company number 00800556), incorporated in 1964, entered administration on 19 December 2019. Its status at Companies House is now: dissolved.

Why it failed

Contract problems on three major projects in 2018 cut revenue by about 3.2m pounds; slow new work, a cash flow gap before new contracts began and a failed sale followed.

  • Main reason: Losses on contracts
  • Market downturn
  • Delays
  • Cash flow
  • Sale or investment 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.

Previously known as: ROLAND BARDSLEY (BUILDERS) LIMITED.

Timeline

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

  1. 31 December 2017

    Last accounts filed were made up to this date

    2 years later

  2. 19 December 2019

    Administration started

    6 years later

  3. 19 June 2025

    Administration ended

AccountsPayment reportInsolvency

Before it failed

Key figures

Staff, year to Dec 2017
184
Accounts at Companies House
Owed to unsecured creditors (estimated), as at 19 December 2019
£31.1m
HMRC owed £552k. Expected return to unsecured creditors: expected, amount not yet known
Administrators' proposals (includes £11.2m of surety bond claims)

The last accounts filed were full accounts made up to 31 December 2017, 24 months before it went into administration. Private companies have nine months after their year end to file, so a gap of more than 21 months usually means the next accounts were overdue, one of the warning signs worth checking for.

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

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