How to read these records

Which companies

Three tests, all from the Companies House register: the status is “Active - Proposal to Strike off”; the last accounts were full, group, medium-sized, audited small, audited abridged or audit-exempt subsidiary accounts; and those accounts were made up to a date in 2019 or later.

Two routes to a strike-off

The directors can apply to have a company struck off when it is no longer needed. Companies House can also start the process itself when a company stops filing. The open file does not say which route applies.

It can be stopped

A creditor or any interested person can object, and the directors can withdraw their application. Many proposals never end in a dissolution.

After dissolution

Whatever a dissolved company still owns passes to the Crown as bona vacantia. A dissolved company can be restored to the register by application.

What is not here

Names of directors or any individual. Micro-entities, dormant companies and companies that never filed accounts. Companies already dissolved. Companies in liquidation or administration, which are on a separate site.