# Dutton Contractors Limited (05728757)

> Why UK company 05728757 went into administration, from the administrators' statement filed at Companies House, by companydig. Interactive version: https://companydig.co.uk/company/05728757

- **Status:** Administration ended
- **Administration began:** 2023-08-18
- **Administrators:** James Richard Clark, Howard Smith
- **Administrators' firm:** Interpath Advisory
- **Incorporated:** 2006-03-03
- **Location:** Leeds
- **Industry:** 43999 Other specialised construction activities n.e.c.

## Why it went into administration

- Rising costs / inflation
- Property / lease costs
- Sustained trading losses

## From the administrators' statement

The Company worked for SPEN for several years and the contract work had historically been profitable. More recently, however, increases in material costs, availability and the cost of labour, delays in obtaining planning permission from local councils and inefficiencies in delivery, due to the reliance on individuals at domestic properties to be present to undertake upgrade works, had resulted in trading losses.

The Company negotiated a rate increase with SPEN in March 2023, though due to continued increases in costs, and delays in the delivery of works, a further rate increase was requested by the Company in a meeting with SPEN on 1 August 2023. No commitment to a further rate increase was provided by SPEN and the Company therefore ceased new works under the SPEN contract on 3 August 2023. Following this, only remedial works were completed to reinstate work already completed, with the aim of trying to obtain leverage with SPEN to agree a new rate card and payment terms, which would enable the Company to continue trading solvently.

Given the position of the Company, without agreeing increased rates or continued financial support from other entities in The Dutton Holding Company Limited group (which the Company had been reliant upon for a number of months), the Company could not continue to trade. As a result, at a board meeting on 8 August 2023 the directors of the Company resolved that it could not continue to trade solvently and filed a Notice of Intention to appointment an Administrator on the same date.

Statement of proposals: https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/05728757/filing-history/MzM5NDgzMTk4N2FkaXF6a2N4/document?format=pdf&download=0
Companies House register: https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/05728757

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