Living Essentials Retails Ltd faces a winding-up petition
Active Company no. 15400137 Incorporated Jan 2024 Retail & Wholesale HP postcode area
Bendrose Lodge, White Lion Road, Amersham, HP7 9JY
The most recent insolvency notice for Living Essentials Retails Ltd is a Petitions to wind up (Companies), published 14 October 2026 in The London Gazette. The petition was presented by KINGSWAY ASSET FINANCE LIMITED. The case is before the The Rolls Building (case CR-2026-CR-2026-007399). Its last accounts filed at Companies House, to 31 January 2026, showed total assets of £182k and net assets of £24k. A winding-up petition asks the court to close a company and place it into compulsory liquidation, most often because a debt has gone unpaid. If the court makes a winding-up order, control passes to the Official Receiver or an appointed liquidator, the company's bank accounts are frozen and its assets are sold to repay creditors.
Last filed balance sheet
As at 31 January 2026 · micro entity accounts · unaudited · filed 8 months before the first insolvency notice
Total liabilities is not shown for this company: the filed balance sheet did not reconcile against the figures we could read, so the total would be incomplete.
Average employees during the period: 6
Insolvency notices (1)
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Petitions to wind up (Companies) 14 Oct 2026
A petition has been filed to wind up Living Essentials Retails Ltd, with a hearing set for 18 November 2026 at the Rolls Building in London.
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Frequently asked questions
Is Living Essentials Retails Ltd in liquidation?
The most recent insolvency notice for Living Essentials Retails Ltd (company no. 15400137) is a Petitions to wind up (Companies), published 14 October 2026 in The London Gazette. A winding-up petition asks the court to close a company and place it into compulsory liquidation, most often because a debt has gone unpaid. If the court makes a winding-up order, control passes to the Official Receiver or an appointed liquidator, the company's bank accounts are frozen and its assets are sold to repay creditors.
What were Living Essentials Retails Ltd's last filed accounts?
Living Essentials Retails Ltd's last accounts filed at Companies House, to 31 January 2026, showed total assets of £182k, net assets of £24k. For a distressed company the last filing often predates the insolvency by a year or more.
How many insolvency notices does Living Essentials Retails Ltd have?
Living Essentials Retails Ltd has 1 insolvency notice recorded in The London Gazette, the most recent being a Petitions to wind up (Companies) on 14 October 2026.
Financial figures are taken from the company's own last accounts filed at Companies House. Small and micro-entity accounts are unaudited, and for a company entering an insolvency process the most recent filing frequently predates that process by a year or more. Figures are indicative and are not a valuation. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. © Crown copyright.