{"id":868893,"date":"2025-08-29T21:13:13","date_gmt":"2025-08-30T02:13:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2025\/08\/29\/ardmore-company-files-administration-notice\/"},"modified":"2025-08-29T21:13:13","modified_gmt":"2025-08-30T02:13:13","slug":"ardmore-company-files-administration-notice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2025\/08\/29\/ardmore-company-files-administration-notice\/","title":{"rendered":"Ardmore company files administration notice"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Ardmore Construction Ltd has filed a notice of its intention to call in administrators.<\/p>\n

The notice was filed at the High Court yesterday (28 August).<\/p>\n

None of the other companies within the Ardmore Group have followed suit.<\/p>\n

In its last published accounts, for the year to 30 September 2023, Ardmore Construction Ltd made a pre-tax loss of \u00a314m on \u00a3313m turnover.<\/p>\n

At the time, managing director Patrick Byrne blamed \u201csupply chain inflation, supply chain failures and some poor management\u201d for the \u201cdisappointing results\u201d of the contracting business.<\/p>\n

He added that a restructure meant new construction contracts would be held by other group companies in future.<\/p>\n

It made \u00a3110m of provisions for liabilities in the period, up from \u00a359.3m in 2022, but only had net assets of \u00a312.8m \u2014 a factor prompting an information order application from Barratt Developments\u2019 main trading arm BDW.<\/p>\n

In February, the High Court denied BDW\u2019s attempt<\/a> to access details of Ardmore Construction\u2019s sister companies before liability is decided in an \u00a385m defects case.<\/p>\n

Information orders can be made by the High Court under the Building Safety Act 2022 (BSA). If approved, they compel companies to provide information to a potential applicant for a building liability order (BLOs) \u2014 also introduced under the BSA \u2014 detailing their assets and associations with another company.<\/p>\n

BLOs can force contractors and developers to pay for faults even if liability is technically held by a joint venture, subsidiary or sister company that has been shut down or is unable to pay.<\/p>\n

BDW was considering applying for a BLO, but it first applied for an information order about Ardmore Construction Group Ltd, Ardmore Group Ltd and Ardmore Group Holdings Ltd.<\/p>\n

But the judge in the BDW case rejected the application, in a ruling that legal experts believe significantly narrows the scope of future BLOs<\/a>.<\/p>\n

BDW was pursuing Ardmore Construction Ltd over five schemes: Crown Heights in Basingstoke; Explorer Court in Plymouth; Pierhead Lock in the Isle of Dogs; Galleria in Peckham; and Citiscape in Croydon.<\/p>\n

Court records show claims against Ardmore Construction Ltd have also been lodged by companies including Taylor Wimpey, Bellway<\/a> and Thames Valley Housing Association.<\/p>\n

Taylor Wimpey has lodged simultaneous legal claims against Ardmore Construction Group Ltd, Ardmore Group Ltd and Ardmore Group Holdings Ltd.<\/p>\n

Ardmore referred\u00a0Construction News\u00a0<\/em>to Begbies Traynor for further information about the administration.<\/p>\n

Begbies Traynor has been contacted for comment.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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\n Ian Weinfass<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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