344 companies file at EC1R 0NE

344 active companies file at EC1R 0NE.

225 of them write Forma House, 40 Bowling Green Lane, across 5 different spellings of it. The other 119 are spread over 14 more buildings at the same postcode, so a book here is companies that file at an address and not one firm's client list.

17 are filed under trades where employing somebody is the ordinary shape of the business, which is where the Employers' Liability duty starts. That is a statement about the trades filed, not about any one company's payroll: the register answers that only from a filed set of accounts, one company at a time.

10 are in trades this engine already treats as higher risk, because they involve work at height, hot work, or a specialist product line rather than the standard one.

102 were incorporated in the last two years, so whatever cover they took out at the start has not been looked at since.

7 match a registered importer or exporter at this postcode by name, which brings goods in transit and product liability into the picture and appears in no accounting ledger as a risk at all.

159 file a SIC code that says nothing about what they do, or none at all. A SIC code is self-selected at incorporation and never audited, so those are not companies doing nothing; they are companies this cannot classify from the register alone.

2 of the rows read are at this postcode and at a building this could not identify, and they are counted here rather than added to the largest one. Putting them somewhere would be a guess that nothing afterwards could see.

None of this needed anybody's permission and none of it says whether any of these businesses is insured. A filed balance sheet has never had a line for insurance in it. What the register gives is who has an exposure; what the ledger gives, once a practice connects one, is what they are doing about it.

All 344 companies were read, over 29 slices of work, and 219 of them produced figures. This is what their own accounts filed.

198 of them filed a number of employees, and 151 filed at least one. Those averages add up to about 252 people across the 198 accounts that state one. That is the difference between a segment and a call list. The breadth view says how many are in trades where employing somebody is ordinary; this says which ones put a number on it.

It is not a list of who owes the Employers' Liability duty, and there is no way to make it one from a stored crawl. The exemption for a single employee who owns half the shares is answered by the register of people with significant control, and nothing about a person is kept here. That register is read live, one company at a time, on the audit of whichever of these is opened.

110 of them carry fixed assets on the last balance sheet they filed, £1,251,996 of it between them. Fixed assets are written-down book value and not what replacing them would cost, so that is a floor on what there is to insure and never a sum insured.

54 of the 211 that filed net assets filed net liabilities, meaning they owed more than they held at the balance-sheet date. That is ordinary for a company funded by its director's loan account and it is also what a distressed balance sheet looks like, and the register does not say which.

125 of the 344 read could not be turned into figures: 14 filed accounts that are a scanned image rather than a tagged document, 93 have filed no accounts yet, 18 filed a document this engine could not add up and would not quote. About two in five filings at Companies House are a scanned image with nothing tagged in them, so that part is the ordinary case rather than a fault. A company that has filed nothing yet is usually a new one: the first accounts are not due for up to twenty-one months, so that is a fact about its age. None of them is a company with nothing: an absence here is an absence of a readable document and says nothing at all about the business.

The newest of these balance sheets is dated 26 June 2026 and the oldest 31 March 2024, which is between 2 and 29 months ago. Every one of them is what was filed for a period that has ended, and not one of them is what is true this morning. A company that laid everybody off in April filed exactly the same accounts.

Nothing about a person was kept. What is stored against EC1R 0NE is a company number and the figures its own accounts filed, with the dates they describe, and nothing else: no name, no address, no director and no score. It is deleted on 17 November 2026, and crawling this postcode again replaces it rather than adding to it.