CLG company-secretarial support for an exposed home address

Remove Your Home Address from a CLG’s Companies House Public Record — SR01 Support

If your home address has appeared on a Company Limited by Guarantee’s public record, the first step is to work out exactly where it appears and whether SR01 is the right route. Coddan reviews the filing history, identifies eligible documents, checks whether a current address needs to change first and prepares the application route where the statutory criteria appear to apply. This is professional assistance for a Form SR01 application and a UK Form SR01 support and submission service where the statutory criteria appear to apply.

This is not simply about changing an address. A current registered office, SAIL or director service address can be changed while the same home address remains visible on older public documents. Coddan treats those as connected but separate issues, so the current and historical records are dealt with in the right order.

Privacy point: you do not need to put your home address, identity-document details or unredacted filings into an ordinary first enquiry. Start with the company number and a short description of where the address appears. Coddan will tell you what information is needed and how to provide it once the scope has been established.

Does This CLG SR01 Service Match Your Position?

The work you are paying Coddan to do

What You Are Paying Coddan to Do

Decision boundary: Coddan can prepare and coordinate the work within the agreed scope, but you remain responsible for checking the application and document schedule before submission, confirming that they are accurate and completing the required authentication. Under the current SR01 instructions, the applicant enters their printed name; a signature is not required. Companies House remains responsible for assessing eligibility, processing the application and making the decision.

Your part of the process remains important: you provide accurate information, approve the application and document schedule, complete the required authentication and make the decisions that only you or the CLG can make. Coddan’s role is to carry out the agreed professional work, not to take over those statutory responsibilities.

The immediate service route

Start the CLG SR01 Review Without Sending Your Home Address

If you do not yet know how many documents are affected or whether an address change is needed first, start with a CLG SR01 scope check. This gives you a clearer picture of the likely documents, any current-address work and the secure route for providing sensitive information before that information is requested.

The scope check remains available where the number of affected documents, the appropriate replacement address or the correct application route is uncertain.

Why professional SR01 support can matter

What Coddan Adds Beyond the SR01 Form

The SR01 form is only one part of the job. The harder questions often come first: where does the address appear, which documents are eligible, does a current address need to change, which filing introduced an old registered office, how much is the official fee and how should the payment reference and submission be handled? Coddan brings those questions together before your application proceeds.

The value is not simply having someone fill in a form. It is having the public record, filing history, current address position, eligibility, fee and submission route considered together before the application is sent — while keeping your responsibility and Companies House’s independent decision-making clear.

Current Address Change and Historical Suppression Are Different

A CLG can update its current address without removing a former home address from documents that are already available through Companies House. If your aim is to remove a home address from the Companies House public register, the current address and historical filing need to be looked at separately. The same principle works the other way: SR01 is not a substitute for changing an unsuitable current registered office, SAIL or serving officer’s public service or correspondence address.

Where Does the Home Address Appear?

An address can appear in more than one place or in several filings. If you want to hide a residential address from historical company filings, it is therefore important to look at your documents rather than assume that one filing controls the whole record. Coddan reviews the public filing history and separates each occurrence by person, document, date and the reason the address was supplied.

What Coddan Checks Before Preparing SR01

The filing-history review turns a broad privacy concern into something that can be checked and acted on. It can cover the removal of personal residential data from historical company forms and establish whether you are dealing with a former registered office address. Just as importantly, it helps prevent the application from naming the wrong document or overlooking a change that needs to happen first.

1. Public-record confirmation: Coddan checks whether the full home address, or only part of it, is actually visible and records the relevant company and document references.
2. Individual and capacity: Coddan establishes whether you are or were a director, secretary, person with significant control (PSC), subscriber or another individual whose details appear in an eligible document. Being a CLG member does not, by itself, make every member eligible.
3. Document origin: each affected filing is traced to the use that introduced the address. A former registered office is traced to the original filing that put it on the record.
4. Eligibility control: the document type and address occurrence are checked against the current Companies House route.
5. Current-address control: Coddan checks whether the registered office, SAIL or a serving officer’s public address needs to change before SR01.
6. Scope and fee schedule: the eligible documents are listed so the official fee can be calculated per document, while Coddan’s one-off work is kept separate from any continuing address service.

Historical filing point: you may think of the objective as cleaning up public document history at Companies House, removing a home address from past confirmation statements and accounts, or carrying out retrospective address removal for a UK company officer. The statutory position is narrower: only eligible personal information in eligible documents can be considered through the applicable route. For a dissolved CLG, where the home address was used as the registered office, current official guidance requires a six-month wait from dissolution before you apply to remove it. A dissolved company does not need a new registered office or replacement service address solely for this SR01 route; restoration is a separate issue if the company needs to resume legal existence.

SR01 Application, Document Schedule, Per-Document Fee and Payment Reference

Form SR01 is an individual application to remove specified personal details from eligible documents on the public Companies House register. The route sits within the Section 1088 Companies Act 2006 address-suppression framework. Coddan’s role is to help identify and prepare the applicable statutory route, not to create a separate “address masking” product. On this page, the service concerns your home address or part of it; it is not an application by the CLG to erase its entire address history.

Jurisdiction point: if the company’s registered office is situated in Wales, the separate SR01c route applies. Coddan confirms the correct form and current official fee as part of the scope review rather than assuming SR01 is the correct route for every CLG.

Companies House currently charges £34 for each document listed. Because the fee is charged per document, the eligible documents need to be identified before the official total and payment reference can be established. The charge depends on the number of eligible documents in the schedule — not the number of companies, address lines or pages. Coddan establishes that schedule before the official payment is made.

Current filing control: the SR01 guidance requires the applicant to identify the correct document details and registration dates, pay the correct fee before sending the application and include the payment reference. If the former home address was the company’s registered office, the application must identify the original filing that introduced it rather than the later filing that changed the registered office.

The £34 figure is the Companies House fee current when this page was prepared. It is separate from Coddan’s professional fee and any address-service charge, and should be reconfirmed when your scope is agreed.

Replacement-Address Work Before SR01: Service Address and Registered Office Setup

If the exposed home address is still in active use, there are usually two practical ways to approach the replacement address. A director service address or virtual registered office may be relevant, subject to the applicable service requirements. This is connected to the SR01 work, but it remains separate from the historical suppression application.

The Complete Coddan SR01 Service Journey

The work does not necessarily end when the form is sent. The service can follow the issue from the visible public record through any prerequisite changes, the application, the Companies House response and the continuing secretarial position.

Practical service outcome

What You Receive from Coddan

What Can Happen After Submission

Companies House may accept the application, ask for more information or reject it if the form, payment reference, document selection, prerequisite address position or eligibility does not meet the applicable requirements. Coddan records the response and, where this is within scope, helps prepare the appropriate reply or corrected submission.

Outcome limitation: suppression at Companies House does not guarantee that cached search results, archived copies or information already held by independent third-party databases will disappear. Companies House may also lawfully retain information and make it available to authorised bodies even when it is no longer displayed on the public register.

CLG-Specific Address and Governance Considerations

A Company Limited by Guarantee has members or guarantors rather than shareholders holding shares, because it is formed without share capital. The SR01 applicant is the individual whose home address appears in an eligible document. The CLG context affects the surrounding records, authority, correspondence and continuing administration.

Continuing Registered-Office, Service-Address and Secretarial Support

The immediate aim is to bring the current and historical address positions into a clear order. After the SR01 decision, the continuing aim is to keep official correspondence and company records properly administered. For officers, that can support ongoing privacy around company correspondence without suggesting that Companies House information can be removed universally.

• A registered-office service can continue for the agreed subscription period and renewal basis.
• A director service-address service can continue separately and may have a different correspondence scope.
• A SAIL and records-custody arrangement, if applicable, must be expressly agreed rather than assumed to be included.
• Later changes to directors, officers, members, company activities or address arrangements may require further filings.
• Coddan can connect the completed SR01 work with appropriate continuing CLG company-secretarial support.

What Affects the Scope and Cost?

There is no invented fixed SR01 package price on this page. Coddan first establishes the affected documents and any prerequisite work, then separates the costs so you can see what is one-off and what continues.

The Same Capability, Applied to the Correct Entity

Coddan can provide related address-protection, filing and record-correction support for other UK companies and limited liability partnerships. This page remains specific to a CLG, including its directors, members or guarantors, company records and continuing secretarial position.

A limited company by shares has shareholders, share capital and its own company records; an LLP has members, designated members and its own forms. For those wider routes, Coddan’s general SR01 service page is the more appropriate destination. This page stays focused on CLGs.

Coddan’s Professional Role: Address Management and SR01 Support

Coddan provides company-secretarial, address and corporate-administration support within the agreed scope, including work carried out through Coddan’s status as an ACSP where that status is relevant to the instructed service. That can make the administration easier to manage, but it does not transfer your statutory responsibility or Companies House’s decision-making role.

Privacy note: reducing unnecessary public exposure of a residential address can be a sensible risk-management measure, including where identity-theft concerns exist. SR01 cannot, however, be presented as preventing identity theft simply by hiding a home address on Companies House, and it does not control third-party data. HMRC supervision and Companies House registration are regulatory facts, not government endorsement or a transfer of Companies House’s decision-making power to Coddan.

Clear Service Boundaries for Address Suppression and Privacy Support

• Coddan cannot guarantee that every document is eligible, that Companies House will accept the application or that processing will finish by a particular date. Coddan can provide expert-managed Companies House address suppression support within the agreed scope, but the statutory application remains subject to Companies House assessment.
• SR01 does not erase information lawfully retained by Companies House or guarantee removal from search engines, archives or third-party databases. It should not therefore be described as a universal document-redaction service, a guaranteed fast-track removal of a residential address from the public register, or a way to protect director privacy from public search and credit agencies.
• An address used without authority, a false filing, identity theft or a fraudulent appointment may require a Companies House correction or protection route different from ordinary SR01 work.
• Serious violence or intimidation may require a protected-information application with different evidence and decision criteria.
• Legal disputes, court proceedings and contested authority require the appropriate legal destination; Coddan does not decide the parties’ legal entitlement.
• Charity, CIC, RTM, property-management and regulatory obligations remain in force after eligible address information is suppressed.

For advisers and professional intermediaries

Support for International Professional Partners

International accountants, lawyers, formation agents and other professional advisers can instruct Coddan where the client’s CLG has a UK Companies House address-suppression requirement. The instruction works best when the adviser has authority to act, the company and applicant details are established, and the required information and approvals can be provided through the agreed route.

Official SR01 Sources

These Companies House and GOV.UK sources let you check the current form, eligible-document rules, fee and public-record effect for yourself. They are provided so this service page does not need to act as a substitute filing manual.

• Form SR01 and official submission information
• Official instructions for completing SR01
• Companies House list of documents and details that may be suppressed
• Official guidance on removing a home address from the register

Practical Questions About Form SR01, Historical Addresses and Privacy

Start with the CLG Record, Not a Guess About the Form

Start with the company number, your name and a brief explanation of whether the home address appears as a former or current registered office, SAIL, director service address or in another known filing. Coddan will establish the initial record-review scope, any prerequisite address work and the next appropriate step. This is the starting point for professional assistance with the relevant statutory route, not an assumption that every home address or historical filing can be removed.

Do not include the full home address or attach unredacted identity documents in your initial general enquiry. Coddan will confirm what is needed and the appropriate collection route once the scope has been established.

The service scope, Coddan professional fee, current Companies House fee and any continuing address-service charge are identified separately before the relevant work proceeds.