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Company description
HERON BROS. LIMITED is a UK company whose Companies House status is “Active” and whose registered company type is “Private Limited Company”. Incorporated on 2 September 1982; registered for 44 years; registered office reported in CO.LONDONDERRY. Its primary declared activity is 41201 · Construction of commercial buildings.
This BritDB profile also contains linked public records: 3 PSC records, 3 procurement records, 1 other public-register record. This description is assembled from public data, is not a reliability assessment, and should be checked against the cited sources before a legally significant decision.
Web facts are never added from a name match alone. Internet enrichment requires the exact Companies House ID in Wikidata, and ambiguous results are excluded.
01 Company overview
Identity and registration
- Official name
- HERON BROS. LIMITED
- Company number
- NI016051
- Company type
- Private Limited Company
- Status
- Active
- Country of origin
- United Kingdom
- Dissolution date
- Not supplied
- Accounts category
- FULL
- Mortgage charges
- 19 total · 7 outstanding · 12 satisfied
- Limited partnership members
- 0 general · 0 limited
A registered office is not necessarily a trading location. The address is reproduced from the Companies House bulk record and should be interpreted in that legal context.
02 Filing dates
Accounts and statements
Last accounts made up to
31 August 2025Next accounts due
31 May 2027Last statement made up to
3 December 2025Next statement due
17 December 2026BritDB does not infer overdue status when the source does not state it.
03 Supplier payments
Payment practices and performance
- Reporting period
- 1 March 2026 – 31 August 2026
- Filed
- 29 September 2026
- Shortest standard term
- 14 days
- Longest standard term
- 60 days
- E-invoicing offered
- No
- Supply-chain finance
- Not offered
- Payment codes
- No
- Construction retentions
- Reported as used
Complete reported payment fields
- Policy regime
- Regime-3
- Financial period started
- 1 September 2025
- Qualifying contracts
- Yes
- Payments made
- Yes
- Invoice value paid within 30 days
- £37,297,373
- Invoice value paid in 31–60 days
- £3,714,983
- Invoice value paid after 60 days
- £162,713
- Invoice value paid outside agreed terms
- £711,615
- Invoices paid in 31–60 days
- 12.0%
- Invoices unpaid due to dispute
- 0.0%
- Maximum contractual payment period
- 60 days
- Supplier-list charging policy
- No
- Supplier-list charges made
- No
Maximum contractual payment information
60 days end of month.
Retention release
Retentions are released to subcontractors based on their applications for payment, in line with the agreed subcontract.
Retention release stages
Generally 50% is released at completion of the main contract works, with the final 50% being released at the end of the defect liability/maintenance period.
- Retention in all contracts
- No
- Retention in standard terms
- Yes
- Retention threshold
- Not supplied
- Standard retention rate
- Not supplied
- Retention compared with client
- 50.0%
- Retention compared with payments
- 3.0%
Reported terms and dispute process
- Standard payment terms
Contract payment terms are agreed as part of individual contract negotiations. Payment terms are generally 45 days or 10 days from end of month.
- Dispute resolution process
The company has a dispute resolution policy which involves direct communication between our accounts and surveying departments and our suppliers/supply chain, to establish the facts about the dispute. If resolution is not reached it is escalated to the Senior Management and Directors.
Earlier payment reports (6 shown)
- 27.0 average days to pay6.0% outside terms
- 31.0 average days to pay7.0% outside terms
- 33.0 average days to pay8.0% outside terms
- 30.0 average days to pay7.0% outside terms
- 32.0 average days to pay7.0% outside terms
- 35.0 average days to pay9.0% outside terms
This is a company-submitted statutory disclosure, not a credit rating. BritDB preserves the reporting period and links the report only through the Companies House number supplied by the official service. Percentages describe payments made during that period and may change in later reports.
UK Additional public registers
Schools, childcare, care and HSE records
Heron Bros. Limited
15 May 2024 · Improvement Notice
Identity methods differ by source. DfE links use source-supplied company numbers. Ofsted and Scottish care links are unique exact name-and-postcode candidates. HSE links require one unique exact Companies House organisation name. Verify candidate associations independently.
04 Public procurement
Contracts Finder awards
Buchanan Wharf Fit Out
STUDENT LOANS COMPANY LIMITED · ocds-b5fd17-fa40c559-9e47-4146-9d3f-85bf91c617df
- Supplier named in award
- HERON BROS. LIMITED
- Award value
- £6,479,465.45
- Contract period
- 22 May 2023 – 31 December 2023
- Published
- 12 June 2023
- Procedure
- Call-off from a framework agreement
- Main CPV
- 44115800
- Source release ID
- ocds-b5fd17-fa40c559-9e47-4146-9d3f-85bf91c617df-2023-06-12T15:28:34+01:00
Windows, Doorsets and Associated Products
LHC · ocds-b5fd17-7b4386bd-99b7-4767-8676-30b2098b5d4f
- Supplier named in award
- Heron Bros
- Award value
- £0
- Contract period
- 2 August 2018 – 31 July 2022
- Published
- 3 September 2018
- Procedure
- Open procedure (above threshold)
- Main CPV
- 44221100
- Source release ID
- ocds-b5fd17-7b4386bd-99b7-4767-8676-30b2098b5d4f-2018-09-03T12:42:34+01:00
The supplier link is exact, but the award remains buyer-published procurement data. BritDB requires the GB-COH identifier supplied in the Contracts Finder OCDS release and does not infer suppliers from similar names.
05 Ownership and control
People with significant control
No individual or entity with signficant control
- Notified
- 15 October 2025
Heron Holdings (Iom) Limited
- Has significant influence or control
- Country registered
- United Kingdom
- Legal authority
- Isle Of Man Companies Act 2006
- Legal form
- Limited Company
- Place registered
- Isle Of Man Companies Registry
- Registration number
- 020846v
- Notified
- 20 April 2023
- Ceased
- 15 October 2025
Heron Bros. Holdings Ltd
- Owns 75% or more of shares
- Controls 75% or more of voting rights
- Country registered
- Isle Of Man
- Legal authority
- The Companies Act 2006
- Legal form
- Limited Company
- Place registered
- Isle Of Man Companies Registry
- Registration number
- 012052v
- Notified
- 6 April 2016
- Ceased
- 15 October 2025
PSC records are company-filed public-register information. When the exact same displayed individual name occurs at multiple companies, BritDB offers a non-indexed cross-reference page. It is a name match only, not proof that the records describe the same person. Service addresses and partial dates of birth are deliberately omitted.
06 Charity register
Charity Commission links
No exact company-number link in this snapshot
The Charity Commission extract did not explicitly associate this Companies House number with a charity. BritDB does not use a name-only match to fill the gap.
This company-level check covers the Charity Commission for England and Wales. Links are accepted only when the official extract supplies this exact company registration number. Scottish charities now have separate OSCR profiles, but OSCR’s bulk fields do not provide a Companies House number, so BritDB does not infer a company link.
07 Northern Ireland charity register
CCNI exact company links
No unambiguous company-number link found
The CCNI source number did not resolve uniquely to this Companies House record. BritDB did not use a name or address match.
CCNI publishes company numbers without a jurisdiction prefix. BritDB links only when the plausible padded UK and NI candidates resolve to exactly one Companies House company.
08 Sanctions screening
UK Sanctions List
No exact business-registration-number link found
The imported UK Sanctions List did not supply this Companies House number as a UK-linked business identifier. BritDB did not attempt a name-only match.
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09 Public procurement
Find a Tender links
These links use only the GB-COH identifier supplied in the procurement record. A company may have other public-sector work that is absent, older, below publication thresholds or published without a Companies House identifier.
10 Environmental register
Environment Agency waste registrations
No exact company-number registration linked
The licensed Environment Agency subset did not contain this exact Companies House number. BritDB did not attempt a name-only match.
This is a privacy-reduced, exact-company subset. The full official register also includes sole traders and applicants without a matching Companies House number. Check the current Environment Agency register before relying on registration status.
11 Nature of business
Standard Industrial Classification
12 Connected public record
Checks beyond the company register
Charity Commission
0 exact company-number links.
Northern Ireland charities
0 unambiguous company-number links.
Public contracts
1 procurement process linked by exact GB-COH identifier.
Waste register
0 exact company-number registrations.
Corporate notices
The Gazette is not yet connected.
UK Sanctions List
No exact business-registration-number link in this report.
A checked source with no exact link is not a clean bill of health. Unchecked sources remain unknown, while sanctions may also apply through ownership or control of a listed person or entity.
13 Record timeline
Dates in the bulk record
- Detected change
Accounts due date: 2026-08-31 → 2027-05-31
- Confirmation statement
Latest confirmation statement made up to this date
- Accounts
Latest accounts made up to this date
- Incorporation
Company incorporated
14 Provenance
Sources for this profile
Identity, address, status, dates, SIC, previous names and mortgage totals.
Statutory supplier-payment reports linked by the exact source-supplied Companies House number.
Organisation enforcement records linked by one unique exact company name.
Historic awards linked by exact source-supplied GB-COH company identifier.
Current and ceased significant-control records joined by exact company number.
Daily England and Wales extract matched only by the official company registration number.
Daily CCNI export with company links only where the source number resolves unambiguously.
Complete FCDO list checked by exact UK-linked business registration number.
Procurement parties checked only through exact GB-COH identifiers.
Licensed subset linked only by exact Companies House number.
Financial regulation and licences.
Companies House, Charity Commission, OSCR and UK Sanctions List information is public-register data. BritDB reproduces and organises it with source-specific limits; official external links are kept on the dedicated source pages.