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23
Feb
Harrogate firm enters liquidation with debts exceeding £340,000
A building firm in Killinghall has been put into liquidation leaving debts of more than £340,000.
Hallix Developments Ltd has operated from a unit at Killinghall Stone Quarry business park since 2018, but its sole director, Joshua Hall, placed the company into voluntary liquidation this week as it could not pay its debts.
The biggest single loser is HMRC, which is owed more than £116,200 in VAT, corporation tax and income tax.
Loan providers lose most
But it is financial services companies that collectively lose out more than any others. One of them is iwoca, an international company based in London that provides business loans to small and medium-sized enterprises. It is owed nearly £65,000.
French bank BNP Paribas is owed nearly £40,000, Cardiff-based MotoNovo Finance more than £11,500, and JCB Finance more than £10,800, all on hire purchase agreements.
Natwest Bank is owed more than £18,000 in credit and loans, and pension firm Nest is short by more than £7,000.
Building materials firms owed thousands
But not all the debts are owed to financial services companies. GH Brooks, the Harrogate-based building supplies firm, is owed more than £4,100, and Jewsons is owed more than £9,400.
Several timber suppliers are also out of pocket: Howdens by £22,500, Lincolnshire-based Howarth Timber by £12,275, Kirkstall Timber of Leeds by £12,500, and Middlesbrough-based JT Atkinson by more than £6,000.
Mama Doreen’s
Mr Hall was also one of two directors of MD Trading (Harrogate) Ltd, the company trading as Mama Doreen’s Emporium. That company entered voluntary liquidation in September 2025, with debts of £582,000.
Again, more than half – £357,535 – was owed to HMRC, and other sums were owed to the Natwest Bank and various suppliers.
Mama Doreen's shut its York branch last year but is still trading from its James Street site in Harrogate.
In January this year, Mr Hall set up a new company called Hourglass Construction Management Ltd, with a registered office at a Harrogate accountancy firm.
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