Staffordshire Sand & Gravel Company Limited - Period Ending 2017-12-31

Registration number: 05691842

Staffordshire Sand & Gravel Company Limited

Annual Report and Unaudited Financial Statements

for the Year Ended 31 December 2017

Staffordshire Sand & Gravel Company Limited

Contents

Company Information	1
Accountants' Report	2
Balance Sheet	3 to 4
Notes to the Financial Statements	5 to 9

Staffordshire Sand & Gravel Company Limited

Company Information

Director

R M Parton

Registered office

The Oaklands Station Road Admaston Telford Shropshire TF5 0AN

Accountants

CBSL Accountants Limited Chartered Accountants Rowan House North 1 The Professional Quarter Shrewsbury Business Park Shrewsbury Shropshire SY2 6LG

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Chartered Accountants' Report to the Director on the Preparation of the Unaudited Statutory Accounts of
Staffordshire Sand & Gravel Company Limited
for the Year Ended 31 December 2017

In order to assist you to fulfil your duties under the Companies Act 2006, we have prepared for your approval the accounts of Staffordshire Sand & Gravel Company Limited for the year ended 31 December 2017 as set out on pages 3 to 9 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 in England and Wales (ICAEW), we are subject to its ethical and other professional requirements which are detailed at
http://www.icaew.com/en/members/regulations-standards-and-guidance/.

This report is made solely to the Board of Directors of Staffordshire Sand & Gravel Company 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 Staffordshire Sand & Gravel Company Limited and state those matters that we have agreed to state to the Board of Directors of Staffordshire Sand & Gravel Company Limited, as a body, in this report in accordance with ICAEW Technical Release 07/16 AAF. To the fullest extent permitted by law, we do not accept or assume responsibility to anyone other than Staffordshire Sand & Gravel Company Limited and its Board of Directors as a body for our work or for this report.

It is your duty to ensure that Staffordshire Sand & Gravel Company 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 Staffordshire Sand & Gravel Company Limited. You consider that Staffordshire Sand & Gravel Company 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 Staffordshire Sand & Gravel Company 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.

CBSL Accountants Limited
Chartered Accountants
Rowan House North
1 The Professional Quarter
Shrewsbury Business Park
Shrewsbury
Shropshire
SY2 6LG

13 September 2018

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Staffordshire Sand & Gravel Company Limited

(Registration number: 05691842)
Balance Sheet as at 31 December 2017

	Note	2017 £	2016 £
Fixed assets
Tangible assets	4	1,758,585	2,198,331
Current assets
Debtors	5	831,088	77,048
Cash at bank and in hand		5,273	-
		836,361	77,048
Creditors: Amounts falling due within one year	6	(2,994,742)	(2,837,804)
Net current liabilities		(2,158,381)	(2,760,756)
Total assets less current liabilities		(399,796)	(562,425)
Creditors: Amounts falling due after more than one year	6	(34,000)	(19,058)
Provisions for liabilities		(53,871)	(44,311)
Net liabilities		(487,667)	(625,794)
Capital and reserves
Called up share capital		1	1
Profit and loss account		(487,668)	(625,795)
Total equity		(487,667)	(625,794)

For the financial year ending 31 December 2017 the company was entitled to exemption from audit under section 477 of the Companies Act 2006 relating to small companies.

Director's 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 director acknowledges his 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.

These financial statements have been delivered in accordance with the provisions applicable to companies subject to the small companies regime and the option not to file the Profit and Loss Account has been taken.

The notes on pages 5 to 9 form an integral part of these financial statements.

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Staffordshire Sand & Gravel Company Limited

(Registration number: 05691842)
Balance Sheet as at 31 December 2017

Approved and authorised by the director on 13 September 2018
 

R M Parton

Director

The notes on pages 5 to 9 form an integral part of these financial statements.

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Staffordshire Sand & Gravel Company Limited

Notes to the Financial Statements for the Year Ended 31 December 2017

1	General information

The company is a private company limited by share capital incorporated in England and Wales.

The address of its registered office is:
The Oaklands
Station Road
Admaston
Telford
Shropshire
TF5 0AN

The principal place of business is:
Calf Heath Quarry
Watling Street
Cannock
Staffordshire
United Kingdom

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 Financial Reporting Standard 102 Section 1A - 'The Financial Reporting Standard applicable in the UK and Republic of Ireland' and the Companies Act 2006.

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.

Going concern

In the opinion of the director, continued financial support will be available such that the company will continue to trade and satisfy its financial commitments.

On the basis of this opinion, the financial statements have been prepared on a going concern basis. If, for whatever reason, the necessary financial support is not forthcoming then this basis may be inappropriate.

Tangible assets

Tangible assets are stated in the statement of financial position 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.

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Staffordshire Sand & Gravel Company Limited

Notes to the Financial Statements for the Year Ended 31 December 2017

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
Quarry development costs	30 pence per tonne sold
Plant and machinery	10% - 20% straight line
Motor vehicles	20% reducing balance
Fixtures and fittings	20% reducing balance

Leases

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

The company operates a defined contribution pension scheme. Contributions payable to the company's pension scheme are charged to the profit and loss in the period to which they relate.

3	Staff numbers

The average number of persons employed by the company (including the director) during the year, was 11 (2016 - 10).

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Staffordshire Sand & Gravel Company Limited

Notes to the Financial Statements for the Year Ended 31 December 2017

4	Tangible assets

	Land and buildings £	Furniture, fittings and equipment  £	Motor vehicles  £	Other property, plant and equipment  £
Cost or valuation
At 1 January 2017	825,153	-	-	2,138,608
Additions	-	1,037	10,908	439,112
Disposals	-	-	-	(762,659)
At 31 December 2017	825,153	1,037	10,908	1,815,061
Depreciation
At 1 January 2017	122,162	-	-	643,268
Charge for the year	75,588	82	2,182	301,934
Eliminated on disposal	-	-	-	(251,642)
At 31 December 2017	197,750	82	2,182	693,560
Carrying amount
At 31 December 2017	627,403	955	8,726	1,121,501
At 31 December 2016	702,991	-	-	1,495,340

	Total £
Cost or valuation
At 1 January 2017	2,963,761
Additions	451,057
Disposals	(762,659)
At 31 December 2017	2,652,159
Depreciation
At 1 January 2017	765,430
Charge for the year	379,786
Eliminated on disposal	(251,642)
At 31 December 2017	893,574
Carrying amount
At 31 December 2017	1,758,585
At 31 December 2016	2,198,331

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Staffordshire Sand & Gravel Company Limited

Notes to the Financial Statements for the Year Ended 31 December 2017

Included within the net book value of land and buildings above is £Nil (2016 - £21,074) in respect of freehold land and buildings and £627,403 (2016 - £681,917) in respect of short leasehold land and buildings.
 

Included in the carrying value of tangible fixed assets are assets held under finance leases with a net book value at the year end of £115,725 (2016 - £286,194). The depreciation charge for the year on these assets amounted to £23,980.

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Debtors

	Note	2017 £	2016 £
Amounts owed by related parties	8	414,933	26,557
Other debtors		416,155	50,491
Total current trade and other debtors		831,088	77,048

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Creditors

	Note	2017 £	2016 £
Due within one year
Bank loans and overdrafts	7	44,557	131,358
Trade creditors		111,160	110,727
Amounts owed to related parties	8	2,304,514	2,304,514
Taxation and social security		217,303	199,287
Other creditors		317,208	91,918
		2,994,742	2,837,804
Due after one year
Loans and borrowings	7	34,000	19,058

7	Loans and borrowings

	2017 £	2016 £
Non-current loans and borrowings
Finance lease liabilities	34,000	19,058

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Staffordshire Sand & Gravel Company Limited

Notes to the Financial Statements for the Year Ended 31 December 2017

	2017 £	2016 £
Current loans and borrowings
Bank overdrafts	-	3,524
Finance lease liabilities	44,557	127,834
	44,557	131,358

The finance lease liabilities are secured.

8	Related party transactions

Summary of transactions with other related parties

R M Parton is a director of both Salop Sand and Gravel Supply Company Limited and The Mortar and Screed Company Limited.
 The following amounts were due (to)/from related parties at the year end :-

Salop Sand and Gravel Supply Company Limited (£363,389) (2016 - (£5,526))
The Mortar and Screed Company Limited (£157,283) (2016 - £29,349)

 

9	Parent and ultimate parent undertaking

The company's immediate parent is S S G Investments Holdings Limited, incorporated in England and Wales.

 The ultimate parent is S S G Quarries Limited, incorporated in England and Wales.

  These financial statements are available upon request from Companies House

 

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