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.
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.
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:
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Following the 2025 changes, you can apply to suppress the following details from historical documents on the Companies House public register:
Certain groups, such as law enforcement agencies and other public authorities, will continue to have access to suppressed and protected information where necessary.
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:
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.
Find out which documents contain your home address by searching the public register at Companies House. Follow these steps:
Your home address may appear on several different documents or filings if you’ve used it as your service address. Some examples include:
You can only apply to remove your home address from certain documents: Companies House provides a full list.
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:
You can request an application form by emailing [email protected] .
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 .
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.
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.
Yes, you can use form SR01 to remove your home address from three documents. If you need to remove your home address from more than three documents, use a SR01 continuation page . You’ll have to pay £34 for each document you want your home address to be removed from.
If you find out that someone is using your address for their business , use form RP07 to complain and apply to change the address. Companies House will ask for evidence that you live at your home address, for example a utility bill.
You can use your home address as your registered office address, but it is better to use a commercial address. If you use your home address as your registered office address, it will be publicly available, which could put you at risk of identity theft or receiving visits from unhappy customers. If you don’t have your own commercial address, you can use a third-party address, such as the Registered Office Address Service provided by Rapid Formations.