Check the rules for company addresses

You must provide a registered office address when you set up a limited company. This is where official communications will be sent, for example letters from Companies House.

The address must be:

  • a physical address in the UK
  • in the same country your company is registered in, for example a company registered in Scotland must have a registered office address in Scotland


Your company address will be publicly available on the online register. You cannot remove the address from the register.

Keeping your address private

If you do not want your address to be publicly available (for example, if it’s your home or someone else lives there) you can either:

  • use a different address, such as the address of the person who will manage your Corporation Tax - you must get their permission first
  • appoint an agent who will give you an address to use

You must have the address in place before you register your company.


    1. Check what a private limited company is



    1. Get help deciding how to set up your business
  2. Step 2 Choose a name

  3. Step 3 Choose directors and a company secretary


    1. Find out what directors are responsible for
    2. Check who can be a director or company secretary
  4. Step 4 Decide who the shareholders or guarantors are



    1. Find out what counts as a PSC
  6. Step 5 Prepare documents agreeing how to run your company


  7. Step 6 Check what records you'll need to keep

  8. Step 7 Register your company


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