Thermaframe Group Limited directors file Section 216 notice after CVL
Directors of a Sidcup glazing company that entered creditors' voluntary liquidation on 22 June 2026 have filed a prohibited-name notice to keep trading under the Thermaframe name. Full notice and Companies House record.
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Peter James Taylor and Bernard William Ott, directors of Thermaframe Group Limited, have filed a prohibited-name notice under Rule 22.4 of the Insolvency (England and Wales) Rules 2016. The notice sets out their intention to carry on the business under the names "Thermaframe" and "Thermaframe Windows" after the company entered creditors' voluntary liquidation on 22 June 2026.
A creditors' voluntary liquidation is an insolvent winding-up resolved by the company's members at the directors' request, without a court order. It is the single largest stream of UK corporate insolvency by volume.
The prohibited-name route
Section 216 of the Insolvency Act 1986 prohibits a director of a company that has entered liquidation from being involved in another company using the same or a similar name for five years, unless one of the statutory exceptions applies. A breach is a criminal offence and can, in some circumstances, make the director personally liable for the debts of any successor company.
The Rule 22.4 notice is one mechanism that allows directors to avoid that prohibition lawfully. By giving formal notice to creditors of the insolvent company, Taylor and Ott can proceed to act in connection with a business operating under the Thermaframe name without first obtaining leave of the court, provided the conditions in Part 22 of the Insolvency (England and Wales) Rules 2016 are met.
The notice states that both directors intend to act in one or more ways specified in Section 216(3). That provision covers directing or managing another company with a prohibited name, taking part in its promotion or formation, and carrying on a business under such a name outside a corporate structure.
The company
Thermaframe Group Limited is registered at Sutton House, Unit 7, Fitzroy Business Park, Sandy Lane, Sidcup, DA14 5NL, in Kent. Its SIC code covers painting and glazing work. The company was incorporated on 19 November 2010, initially as Thermaframe (Holdings) Limited, before becoming Thermaframe Holdings Limited later that month and adopting its most recent name in February 2012.
The directors
Taylor and Ott were both appointed as directors on 19 September 2013 and both remain current officers at the time of the notice. Both give the Sidcup registered office as their address in the notice.
Two earlier directors, James Richard Corby and Timothy Rene Gourmand, were appointed on 25 November 2010 and both resigned on 19 September 2013. A third earlier director, Dr Yaakov Shaltiel, was appointed and resigned on 19 November 2010, the date of incorporation, a standard formation arrangement.
No secured charges are registered against Thermaframe Group Limited at Companies House. The notice was published in the London Gazette on 25 June 2026.
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 07445530
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