Lawsons’ Surebuild winding-up notice gives no debt figure

Lawsons (Whetstone) Limited, trading as AVS Fencing & Landscaping Supplies, presented a winding-up petition against The Surebuild Group Limited on 6 October 2026, according to its Gazette notice, which leaves the claimed debt unstated. The notice names Bethany Kent of Birketts LLP as the petitioner’s solicitor but identifies no appointed insolvency practitioner. It provides no supporting invoices and does not say whether Surebuild accepts or disputes the debt. Lawsons’ claim to be a creditor is recorded; the amount and basis of that claim are not.

The Gazette notice lists case CR-2026-007712 for hearing at the Rolls Building in London at 10:30am on 25 November 2026, with notice of intention to appear due by 4pm on 24 November 2026. It does not report a winding-up order, identify other creditors or give a total for unsecured liabilities. Birketts’ legal costs and their payment status are undisclosed. The notice provides neither an asset valuation nor an estimated outcome statement against which creditors could assess the prospect of recovery.

Companies House lists Jonathan Stephen Collins, Matthew Richard Collins and Richard Stephen Collins as directors of Surebuild, company number 16624104. Its filing history contains an incorporation filing and a confirmation statement, but no accounts or charge registrations. Companies House gives 3 May 2027 as the deadline for the company’s first accounts. The register therefore supplies names and corporate particulars, but no filed accounts showing assets and liabilities; the filing history does not establish the company’s current creditor exposure.

If a winding-up order follows, section 136 of the Insolvency Act 1986 ordinarily makes the official receiver liquidator until another person takes office. The Insolvency Service’s creditor guidance explains that an insolvency practitioner may subsequently replace the official receiver. It also states that a practitioner seeking time-based remuneration must provide a fees estimate for approval by creditors or the liquidation committee. Lawsons’ notice names no proposed office-holder or introducer and gives no proposed fee basis, hourly rates or estimate of insolvency costs.

The Insolvency Service’s creditor guidance states that liquidation fees are paid from asset recoveries before money is divided between creditors. For Surebuild, the petition notice supplies no figures for prospective realisations, time costs or a distribution to unsecured creditors. If an order is made, the appointment record, statement of affairs, fee approvals, progress reports and receipts-and-payments accounts would document who takes office, what remuneration is authorised and what funds remain. The petition notice establishes none of those outcomes and provides no basis for estimating an unsecured dividend.