Authorised by the FCA
This firm is on the FCA register and authorised to carry out regulated activities.
Website, phone number and address
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Phone number
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Address
Head Office, Boroughbridge Road, Knaresborough, North Yorkshire, HG5 0LZ, United Kingdom
In the full report: 3 background checks
- When piccadillymotors.co.uk first appeared online, and whether it can receive email
- What kind of line 01423 863102 is
- Who else gives the postcode HG5 0LZ
FCA permissions and consumer protection
- Lend or arrange credit No FSCS coverConsumer credit is not covered by the FSCS, so there is no compensation scheme if the firm fails.
- Complaints Ombudsman, freeYou can refer a complaint about this firm to the Financial Ombudsman Service for free, whichever activity it relates to.
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- Credit Broking
- Debt Adjusting
- Debt-counselling
FCA disciplinary action and complaints
No FCA disciplinary action.
The Financial Ombudsman Service only publishes complaint figures for firms with 30 or more new complaints in six months, so there are none here for this firm.
Companies House record
The company behind the firm: its status, age, registered office and directors.
- Company number
- 02773411 (opens Companies House in a new tab)
- Company status
- Active
- Company type
- Private limited company
- Incorporated
- 14 December 1992 (33 years old)
- Registered office
- Piccadilly Holdings Ltd Head Office, Boroughbridge Road, Knaresborough, HG5 0LZ, England
- Nature of business
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- Sale of new cars and light motor vehicles (SIC 45111)
- Sale of used cars and light motor vehicles (SIC 45112)
- Maintenance and repair of motor vehicles (SIC 45200)
Directors and company secretaries
| Name | Role | Born | Appointed | Other companies |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Simon Stuart Watts | Director | May 1961 | 7 Jan 1993 | None |
| Simon Stuart Watts | Secretary | Not published | 18 Feb 2008 | – |
In the full report: every company its directors have run
- Confirmation that its director runs no other company
- All 4 people who have been directors, with their dates
Filed accounts and finances
Profit before tax
£1.93m
−11% from £2.15m
Net assets
£12.9m
+9.5% from £11.7m
Cash at bank
£11.5m
+6.9% from £10.7m
Owed within a year
£2.93m
−1.5% from £2.98m
The accounts for the year to 30 April 2026 do not tag turnover in a form that can be read automatically, so it is not shown. The last tagged figure is £35.3m, for the year to 30 April 2022.
Profit before tax
In the full report: all 4 years of accounts
- Every year from 2022 to 2026
- Both charts, over every year
- Every filed figure, year by year
About these figures
- Turnover
- Money taken from sales in the year, before any costs.
- Profit before tax
- What was left after the year’s costs, before corporation tax. A minus figure is a loss.
- Net assets, or total equity
- Everything the company owns minus everything it owes. A minus figure means it owes more than it owns.
- Total assets and total liabilities
- Everything the company owns, and everything it owes, on the last day of the year. The gap between them is its net assets.
- Cash at bank
- Money in the company’s accounts on the last day of the year.
- Owed within a year, owed after a year
- Debts and bills due in the next twelve months, and those due later.
Accounts filed at Companies House for company 02773411. Every figure is as filed, apart from total assets and total liabilities, which are added up from filed figures. Nothing is estimated.
Key dates in its history
Piccadilly Motors’s history from the FCA register and Companies House, newest first.
2016
6 April 2016
- Simon Stuart Watts took control (75–100% of shares)
Companies House
2015
5 November 2015
- Regulated by the FCA from this date
- Became authorised by the FCA
FCA register
1992
14 December 1992
- Incorporated at Companies House
Companies House
In the full report: all 11 events
- All 11 events in its history (4 shown here)
- Every director appointment and resignation: 5
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- All 11 events in its history
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Sources and links
- Its entry on the FCA register register.fca.org.uk
- Its Companies House record gov.uk
- Complaints the Financial Ombudsman Service can help with financial-ombudsman.org.uk
- Report a scam to the FCA fca.org.uk