How to find new
businesses near you, free.

Check four free records for your town: the town pages here, the Companies House search, the food hygiene list, and your council's licence and planning lists. Each one catches new businesses at a different stage, some before they open.

Every step below was checked for Hornchurch, in the London Borough of Havering, and each figure says where it came from and when.

Step one

Start with your town's page here.

1,076 towns have a page of their own here. Find yours on the towns page or with the search on the home page. Each page names the newest companies in 39 trades, newest first, with the trade and the date. Each name links to its Companies House record.

Hornchurch, figures to 12 November 2026

The page named 23 companies registered 1 to 12 November 2026. Among them: RR PROPERTY SERVICES LIMITED (property investment & letting), registered 12 November, and DRESSED IN DARLING LTD (online retail), registered 12 November. 58 companies were registered in Hornchurch in October 2026.

Sources: justregistered.co.uk/hornchurch/, figures to 12 November 2026. October from the Companies House register file of 1 November 2026.

A company's town is the one on its registered office address. That can be a home or an accountant's office rather than where it trades.

Step two

Search Companies House by address.

The Companies House advanced search is free and needs no account. Type your town into the Registered office address box and fill in the Incorporation date. It counts every type of company, not just our 39 trades. It shows up to 10,000 results and lets you download the first 5,000 as a CSV file.

Hornchurch, 10 November 2026

Registered office address Hornchurch, incorporated 11 October to 10 November 2026: 66 companies.

Source: that search on Companies House, run 10 November 2026.

The address box matches any text: one of the 66 was on a Hornchurch Road in Uxbridge.

Step three

New places to eat: the food hygiene list.

In England, Wales and Northern Ireland a food business has to register with its council at least 28 days before it starts trading. The Food Standards Agency's food hygiene ratings list food businesses by address. Ones not yet inspected show as Awaiting inspection.

Hornchurch, 10 November 2026

353 food businesses, 13 of them awaiting inspection. Among those 13: Chef Jomon's Veedu on the High Street and Crispy Cod on Wingletye Lane.

Sources: Food Standards Agency ratings, search for Hornchurch, 10 November 2026; GOV.UK, Food business registration.

This search matches text too: 7 of the 353 were outside Havering, one of them on Hornchurch Close in Coventry.

Step four

Your council: licence and planning lists.

Councils publish licence and planning applications, each in its own way. Havering, the council for Hornchurch, lists applications for a premises licence, for alcohol and entertainment, while people can still comment on them. Its planning search finds applications by place and by the date they came in.

Havering, 10 November 2026

7 licence applications listed, one in Hornchurch: GG Superstore, 9 Station Parade, open for comment until 27 November 2026. The planning search found 31 applications at Hornchurch addresses received 11 October to 10 November 2026.

Sources: Havering Council, premises licence applications and planning search, both 10 November 2026.

The first six planning results were all about houses and trees, so read each proposal for a shop or a change of use. Other councils use other systems: look on your council's website for its licence applications and its planning search.

What none of them tell you

Whether it is open, and how to reach it.

A name on a register is not an open door. Companies House holds no email address, phone number or website for any company. Finding those, for the companies that can be reached, is the part sold here.