How to remove yourself from Companies House (residential address suppression)
Open Companies House (residential address suppression)’s opt-out page →Opens on their site. Come back here for the steps.
- Holder
- Registrar of Companies
- How you come off
- Online formyou submit it
- They may ask for
- Nothing beyond the name and address they already hold.
- Legal deadline
- 30 days · UK GDPR Art.17 (erasure) and Art.21 (objection to direct marketing - absolute right)
- Re-lists
- No — once it is off, it stays off.
- Time it takes
- About ten minutesthey usually act within 30 days
- Last verified
- 7 September 2026
- Difficulty
- Hard
How to get removed
- Open their removal form and complete it in your own name.
- Verification: must identify each document; evidence of risk only for 'at risk' protection.
- Typically 30 days to take effect. The legal deadline is 30 days either way - we count it and tell you the day it lapses.
- There is a fee of £34 per document.
- redaction is permanent; future filings must use a service address (CH01/AP01)
ECCTA 2023: home-as-registered-office suppressible from 27 Jan 2025; other residential addresses, day of birth, signatures and occupation from 21 Jul 2025. Only applies to users who are or were company officers.
Why you come back
This one does not re-acquire, so a completed removal holds. Most do not: the holders that buy public records re-buy them about every four months, which is why the rest of this register is re-checked rather than ticked off.
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