How to remove your details from Companies House (director home address)
If you’re (or were) a company director, LLP member or PSC, your home address may be public on the Companies House register — a common way people-search sites find UK home addresses. Form SR01 suppresses it.
What Companies House (director home address) exposes
Step by step
- 1
Check what’s public
Search yourself on the Companies House register and note where your home (not service) address appears.
- 2
Give a service address
First set a service (correspondence) address that isn’t your home, so filings going forward don’t re-expose it. This part is free — form CH01 at www.gov.uk/government/publications/change-the-details-of-a-director-ch01, though GOV.UK ask you to file online where you can because paper takes longer.
- 3
File form SR01
Apply to suppress your home address from the public register — it also covers your signature, the day of your date of birth and your business occupation. GOV.UK: “It costs £34 for each document listed in your application.” Since ECCTA 2023 this can include historic filings.
- 4
Confirm suppression
Companies House replaces the address with your service address once accepted — check the record after a few weeks.
- 5
Clear the copies that were already taken
The register is scraped continuously, so an address that was public for years is already sitting in third-party databases that will not update just because Companies House did. 192.com and the UK people-search cluster are the usual places it resurfaces, and each needs asking separately.
If that doesn’t work
- If you are no longer a director, you can still file SR01 for historic documents — resigning does not remove anything that was already published.
- A service address can be almost any address you have permission to use, including an accountant’s or a formation agent’s. It does not have to be a paid virtual office.
What removing yourself from Companies House (director home address) won't do
Most guides skip this part.
- It is not free. Setting a service address costs nothing, but suppression is £34 per document listed, and a long directorship history can mean a lot of documents.
- It does not reach the copies. Companies House data is bulk-downloaded and resold; every scraper that took your address before suppression still has it, and none is obliged to refresh.
- It only covers the register. Your address may also be public through the open electoral register, property records or an old filing at another registry, none of which SR01 touches.
- It is not instant. Two to four weeks is typical, and the address stays visible throughout — so if the reason is urgent personal safety, say so in the application rather than relying on the standard route.
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FAQ
Is Companies House removal free?
Setting a service address is free; the SR01 suppression costs £34 for each document listed in your application.
Can I remove it from old filings too?
Yes — since the Economic Crime and Corporate Transparency Act 2023, historic documents are eligible.
What is the difference between a service address and a registered office?
The service address is where a director personally receives correspondence; the registered office is the company’s own official address. They can be the same or different, and neither has to be your home. Changing the service address is the free half of this job and it should be done first.
Will suppression hide my name too?
No. Your name stays public, and so does the month and year of your date of birth. SR01 covers the home address, your signature, the day of your date of birth and your business occupation — directorships remain a matter of public record by design.
I resigned years ago — is it too late?
No. Old filings stay on the register indefinitely, which is exactly why historic documents were brought into scope in 2023. Resigning removed you going forward; it published nothing retrospectively and removed nothing either.
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Last updated 9 July 2026