How to remove your address from the internet in the UK
Your home address usually appears online because of a few UK sources, then gets copied everywhere. Remove it at the source, then from the copies, then from Google's results.
- Cut the sources: open register, Companies House (if you're a director), old listings.
- Remove the copies: people-search sites and data brokers.
- Clean up search: Google delisting and Street View blur.
Where your address is coming from
| Source | Can you remove it? | How |
|---|---|---|
| Open electoral register | Yes, free | Opt out via your council |
| People-search sites (e.g. 192.com) | Yes, free | Removal request, then a UK GDPR objection if needed |
| Data brokers and list sellers | Yes, free | Erasure and objection letter |
| Companies House | Mostly | Form SR01, fee per document; change any registered office first |
| Land Registry | Rarely | Title records are public; exemptions are limited |
| Google results | Yes (delisting) | Google's removal and privacy delisting forms |
| Street View | Yes (blur) | "Report a problem" on the image |
Step 1: cut the sources
The open register is the big one: people-search sites and marketers buy it, so an address you remove can come back from the next copy. Opting out is free and doesn't affect your vote. If your home address appears in Companies House filings, for example as a director or a former registered office, apply with form SR01 to have it removed from filings since 2003. There's a fee per document, and copies other sites already took stay where they are, which Step 2 handles.
Step 2: remove the copies
Search your name and postcode, and list every site showing your address. People-search sites usually have a removal form. For data brokers that don't, send an erasure and objection request: they must reply within one month.
Step 3: clean up Google
- "Results about you": available in the UK. Enter your name and contact details, review the matches Google finds and ask it to remove results showing your home address, phone or email. Results from government, news and similar sites may not qualify.
- UK GDPR delisting: Google's data protection removal form lets you ask for results about you to be delisted for searches on your name, which Google weighs against public interest.
- Street View: open the image of your home, choose "Report a problem", and ask for it to be blurred.
Delisting hides a page from Google but doesn't delete it. That's why Step 2 matters.
Keep it gone
Brokers re-acquire addresses from new lists. Check again every few months, or use a service that re-sends requests automatically; here's how the UK options compare.
Questions people ask
Is it possible to remove my address from the internet in the UK?
You can remove most of it. Take it off the open electoral register, ask people-search sites and data brokers to erase it, and ask Google to stop showing results with it. Records with a legal basis, such as Companies House or the Land Registry, mostly stay.
How do I remove my address from Google?
Google can't delete pages from other websites, but it can stop showing them. Use Google's personal information removal request, or its data protection delisting form under UK GDPR. Removing the address at the source site is the lasting fix.
Can I remove my home address from Companies House?
Usually, yes. Using form SR01 you can ask Companies House to remove your home address from documents filed since 2003, for a fee per document (£30 at the time of writing; check GOV.UK). An address that is still a company's registered office can't be removed this way, so change that first.
Can I stop Google Maps showing my house?
You can ask Google to blur your home in Street View using the 'Report a problem' link on the image. Blurring is permanent.
How do I make myself unsearchable online?
Leave the open register, remove people-search listings, ask Google to delist results, lock down social media profiles, and keep sending data brokers erasure requests, since they re-acquire data.
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