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Metropolitan And County PLC

Liquidation 45 years old · 672nd oldest of 4,506 · incorporated in the 1980s

Company number01559061
StatusLiquidation
Incorporated30/04/1981
Accounts last made up to30/09/1989
Next accounts due30/04/1992
Accounts typeACCOUNTS TYPE NOT AVAILABLE
Charges outstanding9

Registered office

20 BICKENHALL MANSIONS, BICKENHALL STREET, LONDON, W1H 3LF

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Online

No website could be identified for this company.

Insolvency

Companies House publishes 5 insolvency cases for this company.

Receiver or manager appointed case 1

Receiver appointed by charge holder 21/12/1988

Appointed to this case:

  • Jonathan Paul White Insolvency practitioner Regency House, 1/4 Warwick Street, London, W1R 5WA Appointed 21/10/1992

Receiver or manager appointed case 2

Receiver appointed by charge holder 21/12/1988

Appointed to this case:

  • Jonathan Paul White Insolvency practitioner Regency House, 1/4 Warwick Street, London, W1R 5WA Appointed 22/10/1992

Compulsory liquidation case 3

Wound up 09/12/1992
Petition presented 20/10/1992

No practitioner is named on this case.

Receiver or manager appointed case 4

Receiver appointed by charge holder 19/12/1988

Appointed to this case:

  • David Scharfer Insolvency practitioner Messrs Grant Stanley, 8 Wigmore Street, London Appointed 16/03/1993 , ceased to act 03/06/1994

Receiver or manager appointed case 5

Receiver appointed by charge holder 05/06/1990

Appointed to this case:

  • Richard J Martin Insolvency practitioner 78/79 Long Lane, London, EC19 9ET Appointed 30/10/1991 , ceased to act 24/03/1995

Case types, dates and the names of appointed practitioners as published by Companies House. An insolvency case is a matter of record and says nothing about how or why a company came to be in one.

Filing history

This company has 82 documents on its Companies House record. The most recent accounts were filed on 10/04/1991. Its last confirmation statement or annual return was filed on 06/06/1991.

Filings: charges29
Filings: insolvency21
Filings: officer changes13
Filings: accounts7
Filings: annual returns6
Filings: address changes1

The most recent filings

Insolvency filing 18/12/1995
Insolvency filing 18/12/1995
Insolvency filing 06/07/1995
Insolvency filing 06/07/1995
Insolvency filing 06/07/1995
Insolvency filing 06/07/1995
Insolvency filing 06/07/1995
Insolvency filing 06/07/1995
Legacy 06/07/1995
Insolvency filing 16/11/1994

This is the list of documents filed, not their contents. A line saying accounts were filed records that they were filed and when; it says nothing about turnover, profit or assets, which are inside the documents themselves and are not published here. Read the filings on the Companies House record.

Who runs it

The register lists 4 current officers and 1 who have resigned.

LEIGH CARR COMPANY SECRETARIAL SERVICES LIMITED Corporate secretaryappointed
METROPOLITAN & COUNTY MANAGEMENT LIMITED Corporate secretaryappointed
Martin Charles Hay Directorappointed
Susan Juliet Hay Directorappointed

Who controls it

The register shows no current person or entity with significant control for this company.

Charges

A charge is security a company gives a lender over its assets. This company has 31 registered charges, of which 9 are not yet recorded as satisfied.

Legal charge
Commercial Union Life Assurance Company Limited
Outstanding, created 05/06/1990
Mortgage
Sun Alliance Mortgage Company Limited.
Outstanding, created 26/01/1990
Legal charge
Macfarlanes
Outstanding, created 25/01/1990
Legal charge
Chancery PLC
Outstanding, created 07/11/1989
Debenture
Chancery PLC
Outstanding, created 07/11/1989
Assignment of contract to purchase
Chancery PLC
Fully satisfied, created 28/09/1989
Legal charge
Scottish Union and National Insurance Company.
Outstanding, created 21/12/1988
Legal charge
Mla Bank Limited
Outstanding, created 19/12/1988

Showing the 8 most recent. The full list is on the Companies House record.

Officers, controllers and charges are as recorded on the Companies House register on 13/10/2026, and the register changes daily. Appearing here is not an allegation about anyone. Read the current record on the Companies House record.

What it does

This page is compiled from the public register. Companies House does not verify the information filed with it, so treat everything here as what the company reported rather than as established fact. For filings, officers and charges, see the official Companies House record.

Registered office

No other PLC on the register gives this postcode.

On the register

  • 672nd oldest of 4,506 PLCs
  • One of the 1980s cohort
  • Liquidation

There are 4,506 PLCs in Britain, under a tenth of one per cent of the register. The whole count.

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