Remove your home address from the Companies House register

If you’ve used your home address as a registered office address or service address, it will appear on the Companies House public register – visible to anyone who searches for your company.

Changes brought in by the Economic Crime and Corporate Transparency Act 2023 mean that as of January 2025, you can remove a historical registered office address as well as a service address. The best way to keep your home address private is to use a commercial address for your business.

This guide explains how to remove a home address using form SR01, what it costs, and what’s changed under recent legislation.

How to remove your home address from the Companies House register

You must file form SR01 with Companies House to remove your home address from the public register. You can file the form by email or by posting a hard copy; there’s a fee of £34 for each document your address is removed from. If your application is accepted, your home address will be removed from the documents you listed on form SR01.

You can apply separately to withhold your home address from credit agencies; there’s a fee of £100.

Apply to remove an address using form SR01

You can ask Companies House to remove your home address from filings made since 2003 that are shown on the public register. Complete form SR01 by providing the following information:

• Title and full name
• Any former name(s) used for business purposes in the past 20 years
• Date of birth
• Correspondence address
• Email address
• The home address(es) you want to remove from the public register
• New service address (unless the company is dissolved or you no longer hold a position that requires a service address)

What changed under the Economic Crime and Corporate Transparency Act 2023?

Changes brought in by the Economic Crime and Corporate Transparency Act 2023 in 2025 allow a home address that had been used as a registered office address to be removed from the public record.

Beforehand, you could only remove a home address from the public register if it had been used as a service address.

A new registered office address that isn’t your home address must be in place before your home address can be removed (where it is used as the registered office address). If your company is dissolved, you must wait six months after it closes before applying to remove the registered office address.

Following the 2025 changes, you can apply to suppress the following details from historical documents on the Companies House public register:

• A residential address given as a historical registered office address
• Day of birth for documents with a registration date before 10 October 2015 (since that date, only the month and year of birth have been publicly displayed)
• Signatures
• Business occupation
• Sensitive addresses, where evidence is produced showing that the residents are at serious risk of violence or intimidation (e.g. a women’s refuge). In the most serious cases, all personal details required to register a company may be suppressed if there’s evidence that the individual is at serious risk of violence or intimidation.

Certain groups, such as law enforcement agencies and other public authorities, will continue to have access to suppressed and protected information where necessary.

How do I remove my address from multiple documents?

You can include three documents on the SR01 form. To remove your address from more than three documents, complete a SR01 continuation page. It costs £34 to remove your home address from each document.

List all documents on the public register showing your home address and your name and provide the following information about each of them:

• Company registration number
• Company name in full
• Document title or filing type – e.g. AP01 Appointment of director
• Registration date – the date the document was registered at Companies House

You must pay the fee and receive a payment reference before you file your SR01 form. You must include the payment reference in the SR01 form: a form that doesn’t include a payment reference will be rejected.

How do I find out which documents my home address is on?

Find out which documents contain your home address by searching the public register at Companies House. Follow these steps:

1. Visit the Companies House search service
2. Enter the company name in the search bar
3. Click on the company name from the list of results
4. Select the ‘Filing history’ tab under the company name
5. Scroll through all filings and make a note of the documents containing your home address

Which Companies House filings may show your home address?

Your home address may appear on several different documents or filings if you’ve used it as your service address. Some examples include:

• Application to register a company (form IN01)
• Application for the incorporation of a Limited Liability Partnership (LL IN01)
• Appointment of a director (form AP01)
• Appointment of a secretary (form AP02)
• Change of details of a director (CH01)
• Notice of individual person with significant control (PSC01)

You can only apply to remove your home address from certain documents: Companies House provides a full list.

How do I withhold my home address from credit reference agencies?

Companies House makes your home address available to credit reference agencies, even if it isn’t published on the public register.

You can ask Companies House to withhold your home address from credit reference agencies if you’re at risk of violence or intimidation due to your company’s work. It costs £100 to apply.

Directors and LLP members can apply under section 243 of the Companies Act 2006 and persons with significant control (PSCs) can apply under section 790ZF of the Companies Act 2006.

You’ll need to provide proof of the risks you face, such as:

• A police incident number
• Documentary evidence of a threat or attack (e.g., photographs or recordings)
• Evidence of possible disruption or targeting (e.g., by activists)
• Evidence that you’re associated with an organisation carrying out activities that put you at risk

You can request an application form by emailing dsr@companieshouse.gov.uk.

How to stop unauthorised use of your home address

If you discover someone is using your home address as a registered office or service address without your permission, you can apply to remove it from the public register.

Complete form RP07 and submit it to Companies House either online or by post. You’ll need to provide supporting evidence to prove you have authority over the address.

You can report a company to Companies House if it has given your name without consent as one of its directors, company secretaries, or people with significant control.

Find out more in the government’s guidance.

How long does it take to remove a home address?

The average turnaround time for processing reports of false addresses is 35 days.

If Companies House accepts an application to remove an unauthorised registered office address, it notifies the company, giving them 28 days to provide evidence that they are entitled to use the address or to change it to a new address. If they do not do so within 28 days, Companies House will replace the address with a Companies House default address. The company then has a further 28 days to register an appropriate replacement, otherwise Companies House will initiate a voluntary strike off procedure to close the company down.

In all other cases, Companies House doesn’t provide a timeframe for removing a home address from the public register. It depends on current processing times and the number of documents containing your address.

Alternative address solutions

Corporate transparency is one of the requirements of limited company registration. This is why certain information, such as directors’ names and service addresses, is disclosed on the Companies House register.

However, disclosing a residential address on the public record can create privacy problems and increase the risk of fraud, identity theft, and other types of harm.

One of the best ways to provide personal address protection for directors is to use a non-residential address as a registered office and service address. One option would be to use a third-party address, such as an accountant’s or solicitor’s address, if you have permission.

Alternatively, you can purchase professional address services from a third-party provider if you don’t have commercial premises. For example, Rapid Formations offers a Registered Office Address Service and a Service Address Service, for these purposes.