Demolition & Site Prep succession in South East

Name: Demolition & Site Prep business succession in South East
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162 of 502 demolition & site prep companies in South East — 32.3% — have a director aged 60 or over.

Companies measured502

Director aged 60+162

Exposure rate32.3%

Companies House register·Measured base 3,475,770·Data as at 13 August 2026·Full methodology

502

Companies measured

162

Director 60+

Director 70+

32.3%

Exposure rate

The UK average across all trades is 32.5%; demolition & site prep nationally runs at 30.7%.

Measure	Companies
Demolition & Site Prep companies in South East measured	502
Oldest director aged 60 or over	162
Oldest director aged 70 or over	53

Of the 162 with a director over 60, 22 score 50 or higher on business quality — an output of our own scoring model, not a Companies House figure. How we score it.

Demolition & Site Prep in other regions

Region	60+	Rate
North West	153	36%
Yorkshire & The Humber	120	35.6%
South West	121	33.2%
East of England	126	30.5%
West Midlands	96	27.2%
London	160	21.3%

Other trades in South East

Trade	60+	Rate
Consultancy Services	14,455	41.6%
Lettings	9,873	42.9%
Retail	6,015	26.7%
IT Services / Consultancy	5,392	25.7%
Investment	5,385	33.7%
Other Leisure	5,364	33.2%
Investment / Fund Management	4,380	40.3%
Property Development	4,170	46.3%

Combinations with fewer than 250 measured companies are not listed separately. They are still counted in every total on this page.

Next step

This page counts director ages across the whole register. If you are looking to buy rather than to research, our Construction & Trades pages go further: we score each company on business quality and exit timing, and shortlist the ones worth approaching.

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ExitRadar, "Demolition & Site Prep succession in South East", UK Business Succession Index, 13 August 2026. https://www.exitradar.co.uk/succession/const-demolition/south-east/

Need a cut that is not published here — a different trade grouping, a finer geography, or the underlying distribution? Get in touch and we will usually provide it. Methodology.

Method. Figures cover the 3,475,770 active UK companies where Companies House records an age bracket for at least one serving director — 93.8% of the 3,706,712 companies on the active register. A company counts as succession-exposed when its oldest serving director is 60 or over — not the board average, which would hide a 70-year-old founder sitting alongside younger co-directors. The business-quality figure covers only the subset our model assesses — see the methodology for why that is far smaller than the number with filed accounts. Data as at 13 August 2026; updated quarterly, next update October 2026. Full methodology.