Mendip Conservatory & Window Centre Limited: director files prohibited-name notice to trade on as Mendip Conservatories
Mendip Conservatory & Window Centre Limited entered insolvent liquidation on 28 May 2026, prompting a Rule 22.4 prohibited-name notice from director Kim Eyres. Full notice and Companies House record.
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Mendip Conservatory & Window Centre Limited entered insolvent liquidation on 28 May 2026, and its director has since filed a formal notice of her intention to continue trading under the Mendip Conservatories name through a new company.
Kim Eyres filed the notice under Rule 22.4 of the Insolvency (England and Wales) Rules 2016. The new company she intends to use is Mendip Conservatory Roofs Limited, trading as Mendip Conservatories. The notice was published in the London Gazette on 11 June 2026.
What the notice means
Section 216 of the Insolvency Act 1986 prohibits a director of a company that has entered insolvent liquidation from involvement in another company using the same or a similar name for five years, unless a statutory exception applies. Breaching the restriction is a criminal offence and can make the director personally liable for the debts of the new company.
Rule 22.4 offers a route around that restriction. By giving advance notice to creditors of the insolvent company, a director may lawfully carry on the business under a similar name without a court order. The notice must be given before the director takes up any of the activities listed in Section 216(3). Those activities include acting as a director of the new company, taking part in its promotion or management, or carrying on a business under the prohibited name outside a corporate structure.
The company
Mendip Conservatory & Window Centre Limited operated from Mendip Conservatories, Smallway, Bristol, BS49 5AA. Companies House classifies the business under SIC code 47190, covering other retail sale in non-specialised stores. The company was incorporated on 24 July 2014 and its last accounts were made up to 31 July 2024.
The director
Eyres is the sole officer on record at Companies House, holding both the director and company secretary roles since incorporation on 24 July 2014. In the notice, she confirms she was a director of Mendip Conservatory & Window Centre during the 12 months ending the day before it went into insolvent liquidation, satisfying the condition that triggers the Section 216 restriction.
No secured charges are registered against Mendip Conservatory & Window Centre Limited, and no administrators were appointed. The company went into insolvent liquidation directly, without an administration stage.
Common questions
Are you a director of the successor company?
A prohibited-name Gazette notice typically documents one of the three statutory exceptions to Section 216 of the Insolvency Act 1986 (the rule against re-use of a similar name by a former director of a liquidated company). The exception is only valid if the notice meets the timing and content requirements in the relevant Rule. Read more on prohibited names.
Do you trade with the successor company?
A valid notice does not by itself revive the liabilities of the liquidated company. The successor company is a separate legal entity and the directors are personally exposed only if Section 216 is breached.
Sources
- The London Gazette notice (code Moratoria, Prohibited Names and Other: Re-use of a Prohibited Name)
- Companies House record 09146163
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