Removing your home address from the Companies House register
How to remove your home address from the public register if you’ve used it as a service address for correspondence, or a shareholder's address. This also applies to LLPs and LLP members.
Following the government’s response to the Corporate Transparency and Register Reform consultation, we’ve stopped removing dissolved records from Companies House service (CHS).
Additional dissolved records since 2010 will be put back onto CHS from January 2021.
Previously, records of dissolved companies on CHS were removed after 6 years following dissolution. These dissolved records are currently available for 20 years on other Companies House products for a fee.
If you are currently a company officer (or were previously), you may wish to review your company records to check if you’ll be affected by this change.
Who can apply
An application to remove a home address can be made by:
- an individual
- a company – on behalf of current or former shareholders (members)
- a person who registers a charge (mortgage)
You cannot ask to remove your company’s registered office address, even if it’s your home address.
Applying as a company, or as a person who registers a charge
You can only apply if the company’s activities puts the person, or anyone else at the address, at risk of serious violence or intimidation.
For example, if the company is involved in a certain sector of commerce of industry.
How to apply
Applying as an individual
Complete a SR01 application form.
It costs £32 to remove an address from each document listed in your application.
There are full instructions on how to send us your SR01 application and pay the fee. We’ll reject your application if you do not pay the correct fee.
Applying as a company, or person who registers a charge
You can request a paper application form by email: dsr@companieshouse.gov.uk.
Our team will advise you about the process and send you the correct form. We will only accept the forms on the coloured paper provided.
It costs £32 to remove an address from each document listed in your application.
Send your paper application with any supporting evidence and the correct fee to:
The Registrar of Companies
PO Box 4082
Cardiff
CF14 3WE
We’ll reject your application if you do not include the correct fee.
Supporting evidence
If you’re applying as a company or person who registers a charge, you must also send a statement of the grounds on which the application is made. You should also include either:
- evidence to support the statement
- a copy of the court order – if the court has made an order under section 117(3)
It’s an offence to make a false statement.
When we receive your application
We’ll send you a letter to tell you we’ve received your application. We’ll check the details you’ve provided and review your grounds for making the application.
We may ask you for more evidence to support your application if we do not have enough information. To help us reach a decision, we’ll also ask for an assessment from a relevant authority about the nature and level of risk.
Once we’ve processed your application, we’ll send you a notice with our decision within 5 days.
If your application is accepted
We’ll remove your address from the documents listed in the application.
If you’re a serving officer, we’ll replace the address.
If you’re no longer an officer, or the company is dissolved, we’ll hide part of your address and only show the first half of the post code on the register. For non-UK addresses, we’ll only show the state or province and country.
The time this takes will vary depending on the number of documents you want to suppress.
We’ll reverse the removal if you’re found guilty of a false statement offence.
If your application is refused
We’ll send you a notice within 5 days. You have the right to appeal.
How to appeal
You can appeal to the High Court on the grounds that the decision is unlawful, irrational or unreasonable, has been made on the basis of a procedural impropriety or otherwise contravenes the rules of natural justice.
In Scotland, you must appeal to the Court of Session.
You must appeal within 28 days of the Companies House notice date. If you appeal after 28 days, the court will need to be satisfied there was good reason why you did not appeal within this period.
Last updated 5 May 2022 + show all updates
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