Staffordshire catering firm subject to prohibited-name notice in the Gazette

A prohibited-name notice filed by Edmund Robert Roseveare appeared in the London Gazette on 21 May 2026, naming Street Kitchen Services Limited, a catering business registered in Leek, Staffordshire.

The notice falls under the Gazette category covering re-use of a prohibited name, a mechanism that arises under section 216 of the Insolvency Act 1986. That provision bars a director of a company that has gone into insolvent liquidation from being involved in another business trading under the same or a sufficiently similar name for five years, unless a statutory exception applies. Filing a notice in the Gazette is one of those exceptions, giving the public formal warning that the name is being carried forward.

The company

Street Kitchen Services Limited was incorporated on 18 May 2021 and carries SIC code 56290, which covers other food service activities. Its registered address is care of Armstrongs Accountants Limited, Alexandra House, Queen Street, Leek, Staffordshire, ST13 6LP. Companies House records show it as an active limited company. The most recent accounts filed were micro-entity accounts made up to 31 May 2023.

Roseveare has been the sole director since incorporation. No other officers appear on the public record.

No secured charges are registered against Street Kitchen Services Limited, and no administrators have been appointed to the company.

What the notice signals

A prohibited-name notice does not mean Street Kitchen Services Limited is insolvent or in any formal insolvency process. It signals that the name, or one closely resembling it, was previously connected to a company that entered insolvent liquidation, and that Roseveare has used the Gazette route to comply with the restrictions section 216 imposes. The notice is a legal formality, not a finding of wrongdoing.

For creditors and suppliers

Because no insolvency process has been opened against Street Kitchen Services Limited itself, the administration moratorium does not apply here. That moratorium is the legal pause on creditor enforcement action introduced by paragraph 43 of Schedule B1 of the Insolvency Act 1986.

Anyone with a claim against a predecessor business connected to the prohibited name would need to pursue it through the liquidation of the earlier entity. In a liquidation, unsecured creditors, a category that typically includes trade suppliers and customers who paid deposits, rank behind secured creditors and the costs of the insolvency process when available assets are distributed.

Employee claims for unpaid wages, notice pay or redundancy arising from the predecessor company would ordinarily be handled through the Redundancy Payments Service, which exists to meet certain statutory claims when an employer becomes insolvent and funds are unavailable from the company itself.