If your home address is published on the Companies House register, you can apply to have it suppressed under Section 243 of the Companies Act 2006 (for directors and LLP members) or Section 790ZF (for persons with significant control). The application is made directly to Companies House and, once approved, replaces the visible address with an alternative you provide going forward.
Removing a historically published address is only half the job. To stop your home address appearing again, you also need to change the address itself – not just apply for removal – by filing form CH01 to update a director’s service address, or the equivalent process to change a company’s registered office address. Companies House will only suppress historical instances of an address; it won’t automatically stop future filings from republishing it if the same address is still in use.
Applications for residential address suppression are made by contacting Companies House directly (dsr@companieshouse.gov.uk), who will issue the relevant application form. Processing isn’t instant, so this is worth actioning as soon as exposure is identified rather than waiting for it to cause a problem.
Even after a successful application, copies of the register made before suppression – including third-party company-data sites that scrape Companies House — may still show the old address, since Companies House can only control its own current register. This is one reason many directors treat prevention (never using a home address as a service or registered address in the first place) as more reliable than after-the-fact removal.
Once suppressed, the long-term fix is to route all future filings through a professional registered office and director service address, so there’s no residential address left in the system to be exposed again by a future filing error or address change.
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