Winding-up petition tracker
Insolvency practitioner reporting has repeatedly identified HMRC as among the most active petitioners for company winding-up in the UK; HMRC itself does not publish petition figures. From the date a petition is advertised in The Gazette, the clock to the winding-up hearing is already running, and advertisement usually triggers the bank to freeze the company account. The Gazette (official public record)
Data as of: latest fetch 7 October 2026 · Petition list refreshed from The Gazette notices feed when the site is rebuilt.
Latest winding-up petitions in The Gazette
16 winding-up petitions (notice code 2450, Petitions to wind up Companies) were published in The Gazette from 5 October 2026 to 7 October 2026, taken from the most recent 1200 insolvency notices at the latest fetch on 7 October 2026. That is about 3 days of notices, not a full history, and the Gazette feed does not show who the petitioner was. A petition is creditor enforcement captured close to real time, one of the earliest public signals of corporate distress, and it moves before the monthly insolvency count.
| Date published | Company |
|---|---|
| 7 October 2026 | FORBIDDEN FESTIVAL LTD |
| 7 October 2026 | 5 CORE GROUP LIMITED |
| 7 October 2026 | PERTH RETAIL SOLUTIONS LTD |
| 6 October 2026 | CRAWFORD PRINT AND DESIGN LTD |
| 6 October 2026 | LANFINE HOLDINGS LIMITED |
| 6 October 2026 | D&X PROPERTIES MANAGEMENT LIMITED |
| 6 October 2026 | ADVANCE CABLING SOLUTIONS LIMITED |
| 6 October 2026 | TRIDENT PROPERTY CONSTRUCTION LIMITED |
| 6 October 2026 | QUICKBUILD LTD |
| 5 October 2026 | CLIMAX PROMOTIONS & EVENTS LTD |
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| Date published | Company |
|---|---|
| 5 October 2026 | TIS ASSOCIATES LIMITED |
| 5 October 2026 | RAPHA ASSETS LIMITED |
| 5 October 2026 | D.C BUILDING & ELECTRICAL SERVICES LTD |
| 5 October 2026 | SHIPS PROPERTY HOLDINGS LTD |
| 5 October 2026 | TOUTHILL DEVELOPMENT LTD |
| 5 October 2026 | TOUTHILL MANAGEMENT LTD |
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| Stage | Typical timing | What happens |
|---|---|---|
| Petition served | Day 0 | The company is formally served with the petition |
| Advertised in The Gazette | No sooner than 7 business days after service | Public notice; usually triggers the bank-account freeze |
| Court hearing | A few weeks after presentation | The court decides whether to make a winding-up order |
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If your company appears here, it is the most urgent situation covered on this site: the court hearing date is already set, and banks often freeze a company's account once a petition is advertised. Check the petition and the timeline straight away, then take advice before the hearing.
- Look up a winding-up petition
- What a winding-up petition means
- Winding-up petition response checklist
- The first 48 hours after a petition or demand
General information, not advice about your company.
Methodology and source
This page lists winding-up petition notices from The Gazette, the official public record of insolvency notices in the UK. HMRC does not publish its own petition figures, but insolvency practitioner reporting has repeatedly shown HMRC among the most active petitioners. Petition activity is one of the earliest public signals of corporate distress because it captures creditor enforcement close to real time. Use our petition lookup tool to search this same data for a specific company, or our petition timeline tool if you have been served. Every fixed time limit in the process, with the rule behind it, is on the winding-up petition statutory timeline.
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