County Durham takeaway enters liquidation four years after opening

Fast Fry Wheatleyhill Ltd, a takeaway shop in Wheatley Hill, County Durham, entered liquidation on 6 May 2026, just over four years after it was incorporated in March 2022. The closure triggered a prohibited-name notice, published in the Gazette on 19 May 2026.

The company operated under SIC code 56103, covering takeaway food shops and mobile food stands. Its menu included pizza, burgers and fish and chips, served from its premises at 1 Granville Terrace, Wheatley Hill, Durham. The registered address was changed to Langley House, 53 Theobald Street, Borehamwood, Hertfordshire on 15 May 2026, following the liquidation appointment.

The liquidators

Nicola Meadows and Mark Newton, both of AABRS Limited of Langley House, 53 Theobald Street, Borehamwood, were appointed joint liquidators. Liquidation is a formal insolvency process in which a licensed insolvency practitioner winds up a company's affairs, realises its assets and distributes any proceeds to creditors before the company is dissolved.

The director at the time of the notice was Kamalnain Singh Multani, who had held the role since the company's incorporation on 24 March 2022.

No secured charges were registered against the company at Companies House, so no secured lender ranks ahead of other creditors in the distribution of any assets.

The prohibited-name notice

The Gazette notice falls under the category of re-use of a prohibited name. Under section 216 of the Insolvency Act 1986, a director of a company that has entered liquidation is prohibited from being involved in another company using the same or a similar name for five years, unless one of the statutory exceptions applies. That restriction is now in effect for Fast Fry Wheatleyhill Ltd.

For creditors and customers

Once liquidators are appointed, they handle all creditor communications and issue statutory correspondence to known creditors in due course. That correspondence is conducted through AABRS Limited at the Borehamwood address.

Creditors who are owed money can submit a proof of debt, the formal claim form used in insolvency proceedings to evidence the amount owed. Meadows and Newton will assess those claims as the liquidation progresses.

The moratorium under paragraph 43 of Schedule B1 of the Insolvency Act 1986 applies in administration rather than liquidation, but once a winding-up begins, an automatic stay similarly restricts most creditor enforcement action without court permission.

Customers with outstanding orders or deposits rank as unsecured creditors, meaning they are paid only after secured and preferential creditors have been satisfied. Employees with claims for unpaid wages, notice pay or redundancy can access the Redundancy Payments Service, a government scheme that meets certain statutory employment debts when an employer becomes insolvent.