Their own payment-practices filing · gov.uk

How long does Story Contracting Limited take to pay its suppliers?

CRN 03709861 · Construction · 16 statutory reports on record · period to 31 Mar 2026

30days

their reported average time to pay suppliers, latest period

Faster than mostvs a 31-day median across 6,185 recent filers

Self-reported figure from their statutory filing. How this is compiled.

On the public register · Companies House

Company record

Status: Active
Type: Private Limited Company
Incorporated: 3 Feb 1999
Registered office: BURGH ROAD INDUSTRIAL ESTATE, CUMBRIA, CA2 7NA

4 outstanding charges — secured borrowing registered Accounts due 31 Dec 2026

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Terms vs reality

Stated terms: 14–62 days. Reported average: 30.

Stated terms14–62d

+16 days

Reported avg30d

At a glance

The key figures

14–62d

their stated terms

22%

invoices paid outside terms

-9d

faster over the window

±6d

variable pattern

Vs peers · latest reported averages

fasterslower

Faster than 66% of the 385 large companies reporting in construction.

The pattern

Getting faster

Average days to pay across their last 6 statutory reports.

terms 14d

H2 2023H1 2024H2 2024H1 2025H2 2025H1 2026

Where their supplier invoices land · latest period

within 30 days 58% 31–60 days 37% 61+ days 5%

The read · computed from their figures

Story Contracting Limited has filed 16 statutory payment periods (earliest H2 2018). Their latest report puts the average at 30 days against stated terms of 14–62 days.

The direction is faster: from 39 to 30 days over the window — about 9 days faster.

In the latest period 22% of invoices were paid outside their agreed terms, and 5% landed 61+ days out.

What they tell their suppliers

Payment code: Construction Supply Chain Payment Charter 2% of invoices in dispute

In their own words · from the filing

Standard payment terms

Default terms are end of month following invoice date

Dispute resolution

Disputes escalated to the buyer if not resolved by the Purchase Ledger team. All open invoices are reporting on and regularly reviewed.

Every statutory report on record

Most recent first.

Period	Avg days	Outside terms	61+ days	Filed
H1 2026	30	22%	5%	30 Apr 2026
H2 2025	32	19%	4%	24 Oct 2025
H1 2025	31	13%	5%	25 Apr 2025
H2 2024	41	14%	6%	25 Apr 2025
H1 2024	32	18%	7%	25 Apr 2025
H2 2023	39	13%	13%	30 Oct 2023
H1 2023	42	11%	11%	26 Apr 2023
H2 2022	37	11%	11%	31 Oct 2022
H1 2022	33	12%	12%	29 Apr 2022
H2 2021	38	18%	9%	27 Oct 2021
H1 2021	40	19%	8%	8 Apr 2021
H2 2020	47	18%	10%	12 Oct 2020
H1 2020	41	15%	7%	16 Apr 2020
H2 2019	41	0%	6%	17 Oct 2019
H1 2019	44	13%	8%	15 Apr 2019
H2 2018	36	18%	5%	31 Oct 2018

Working-capital effect

What a 30-day cycle ties up

Illustrative. On a hypothetical £12k/month account, at a 30-day vs a 14-day payment cycle.

≈ £12,000

of invoicing outstanding at any one time on a 30-day cycle — about £6,300 more than the same account would carry at 14-day terms.

Late Payment Act. The Late Payment of Commercial Debts Act lets a supplier charge statutory interest and fixed compensation on invoices paid past agreed terms. Work out what a late invoice is worth → Whether it applies depends on your contract — check with an adviser.

Quick answers

Are they getting slower or faster?

Their reported average has moved about 9 days faster over the window (39 → 30 days).

What's their typical pay point?

Their latest reports average around day 30, moving within about ±6 days. Treat that as a historical reference point, not a promise for a new invoice.

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How UK payment reporting works

What is a Payment Practices Report?

UK companies and LLPs above a size threshold — broadly, two of: turnover over £54m, balance sheet over £27m, or more than 250 employees — must report twice a year, under the Reporting on Payment Practices and Performance Regulations 2017, how quickly they actually pay suppliers: the average time to pay, the share of invoices paid in 30 days or fewer, 31 to 60 days and 61 days or longer, and their standard payment terms. Those thresholds apply to financial years beginning on or after 6 April 2025; for earlier financial years they were £36m and £18m, with the same 250-employee test.

What does "paid outside agreed terms" mean?

The share of invoices paid later than the terms in the supplier contract. If terms are 30 days and an invoice is paid on day 45, it counts as paid outside terms, regardless of the headline average.

How often is this data updated?

Each report covers a six-month period and must be filed within 30 days of that period ending, so a company's record refreshes roughly twice a year. PaidLate re-reads the register as new reports are filed.

Is this official government data?

The underlying payment figures come from the company's own statutory filings on the gov.uk payment-practices service; company-status data comes from Companies House. PaidLate calculates trends, comparisons and summaries from those records. It does not use surveys or credit-agency scores.

How this is compiled. Built from official records only: Companies House and the gov.uk payment-practices service. The payment figures are self-reported — companies over the size threshold must file them by law and the board signs them off. No credit-agency data. The numbers are theirs; the plain-English read is ours. This is information compiled from public records under the Open Government Licence v3.0 — not a credit rating and not advice.

The 31-day comparison figure is the median across 6,185 companies with a current statutory report — every sector pooled, not an average of sector medians (how the figure is built).

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