Great Leighs Estates Limited (08614282): administration
- Status
- In administration
- Administration began
- 2026-03-25
- Administrators
- Kirstie Jane Provan, Mark Robert Fry
- Administrators' firm
- Begbies Traynor
- Incorporated
- 2013-07-18
- Location
- London
- Industry
- 56210 Event catering activities
Why it went into administration
- COVID-19
- Sustained trading losses
- Cash flow / liquidity pressure
- Creditor pressure / legal action
- Weather / natural events
- Competition / price pressure
From the administrators' statement
The information below and contained elsewhere in this document has been prepared from the knowledge obtained by the Administrators and their staff, together with information contained within the Company accounts, from Companies House and from the directors of the Company.
The Company was incorporated on 18 July 2013 and acquired large parcels of land both relating, and adjacent, to the current racecourse premises, previously known as the Essex County Showground, Great Leighs, Chelmsford, Essex.
During 2015 GLE commenced operations as a racecourse and events company, and over the following years established itself as a premier UK racecourse and leisure destination, benefitting from a modern all-weather track which was capable of offering horseracing all year round.
Administrators' statement of proposals (2026-05-22) · Companies House register