How to Hide Your Home Address on Companies House

What does Companies House show about me?

For directors and people with significant control, the public register shows your name, month and year of birth, nationality, role, and any address you used in a filing. Your residential address is not public by default, only your service address.

The catch is that a lot of people used their home address as their service address or registered office when they set up. If you did, your home address is on the public record, searchable by name, for free. Companies House is one of the first places an investigator looks to link a person to companies, co-directors, and an address.

How to hide your home address on Companies House

Apply with form SR01 to make your home address unavailable for public inspection. It costs 34 pounds per document it appears in, and you send it to the Companies House data suppression team.

1. 1.If your home is your current service or registered office address, change that first to a different address, which is free through your company filing
2. 2.Then file form SR01 to suppress the home address from documents already on the register
3. 3.Pay the 34 pound per document fee through GOV.UK Pay
4. 4.Email the form and payment reference to the address on the guidance, or post it

The official pages are gov.uk on removing your home address ↗ and the SR01 form ↗.

What you can now remove that you could not before

Recent changes under the Economic Crime and Corporate Transparency Act widened what SR01 covers.

• -Since January 2025, you can suppress a home address that was used as a former registered office address, not just a service address
• -Since July 2025, you can also apply to remove your day of birth from older documents, plus your signature and business occupation

If you are at risk of serious violence or intimidation, there is a stronger route using forms SR02 and SR03 that protects your address more fully, though it takes longer and needs evidence.

The new identity checks, and what they mean for your privacy

Since 18 November 2025, identity verification is mandatory for directors and people with significant control, done through GOV.UK One Login or an authorized provider. The ID you hand over is held by Companies House but not published.

This is a trade-off worth understanding. You now have to prove who you are with photo ID and a facial likeness check, which is more data about you sitting with Companies House. Existing directors have a transition period running to late 2026 to comply, usually around their next confirmation statement. The verified ID is not shown on the public register; what stays public is still your name, month and year of birth, and service address. Details are on gov.uk ↗.

Where this fits in your wider footprint

Suppressing your Companies House address closes one of the most direct links between your name and your home. It is one pass of a full UK self-audit, which also covers the electoral register, people-search sites, and breach exposure. Start with the UK footprint self-audit, and if a data broker picked up your old Companies House address, use your right to erasure to clear it.