Four-decade Ealing storage business enters administration with Hudson Weir appointment

Nationwide Self-Storage Limited, which has operated a self-storage facility at 620 Western Avenue, Ealing under the trading name Nationwide Storage since its incorporation in September 1984, entered administration on 11 May 2026. The High Court of Justice, Business and Property Courts of England and Wales, Insolvency and Companies List (ChD) sealed the appointment under court number CR-2026-003617.

The company operates warehousing and storage facilities for land transport activities, classified under SIC code 52103. Its registered office has since been updated to care of Hudson Weir Ltd, 56 Leman Street, London, E1 8EU.

The administrator

Kevin Weir of Hudson Weir Ltd has been appointed sole administrator. Weir holds IP number 9332, the licence issued by his recognised professional body confirming him as a qualified insolvency practitioner. Administration is a formal insolvency process in which a licensed insolvency practitioner takes control of a company to attempt to rescue it, sell it as a going concern, or realise its assets for creditors.

The appointment was published in The Gazette on 13 May 2026, two days after it took effect.

The officers

The sole active director at the time of the administration notice was Darryl John William Sutherland, a United Kingdom resident. The corporate secretary at the time was Praxis Secretaries (UK) Limited, appointed to that role on 11 February 2020. Earlier directors, including Colin Baker, who resigned in May 1999, Denis Stanley Milne and Nichola Andrew Milne, both of whom resigned in December 1994, and David Frank Mitchell, who resigned in January 1993, held no role at the time of the appointment.

Background

The company filed its last accounts to 31 December 2024 under the total-exemption-full regime, available to smaller companies. Those accounts were filed without a full audit. The business had been continuously active on Companies House for more than 41 years before the administration appointment.

For customers, suppliers and creditors

Once administrators are appointed, statutory communications and payment instructions to known creditors are issued by the administrator in due course. All correspondence is conducted through Hudson Weir Ltd at 56 Leman Street, London, E1 8EU.

Creditors wishing to record amounts owed to them do so by submitting a proof of debt, the formal claim form used in the administration process to record the sum a creditor says is outstanding.

The appointment triggers a moratorium under Schedule B1, paragraph 43 of the Insolvency Act 1986, the part of the Act that governs administration in England and Wales. The moratorium pauses most creditor enforcement action, meaning creditors generally cannot start or continue court proceedings against the company without the court's permission.

Customers who have paid deposits or hold prepaid storage agreements but have not yet received the benefit of those arrangements rank as unsecured creditors in the administration. Unsecured creditors are those whose debts are not backed by a charge over company assets, and they rank behind secured and preferential creditors when any distributions are made.

Employees with claims for unpaid wages, notice pay or redundancy are treated as preferential creditors for certain arrears, with any amounts above the statutory cap falling into the unsecured pool. The Redundancy Payments Service, which sits within the Insolvency Service, processes statutory redundancy and related claims where an employer is insolvent and unable to meet those obligations directly.