Standard International goods vehicle licence
Frank Barnes (Darwen) Ltd operator licence OC0051353
Reading an operator licence number
Frank Barnes (Darwen) Ltd holds a curtailed Standard International goods vehicle operator licence (OC0051353) in the North West of England traffic area, authorising 21 vehicles and 21 trailers, according to the DVSA file dated 7 September 2026.
- Vehicles authorised
- 21
- Trailers authorised
- 21
- Operating centres
- 1
- Continuation date
- 30 Apr 2028
Licence details
- Licence number
- OC0051353
- Status
- Curtailed
- Licence type
- Standard International
- Vehicle category
- Goods vehicles
- Traffic area
- North West of England
- Vehicles
- 21 authorised19 currently specified (listed on the licence). The operator may use up to the authorised number.
- Trailers
- 21 authorised0 currently specified.
- Continuation date
- 30 April 2028The licence is continued on this date every five years. The fee for a goods licence is due by the end of the month before. It is not an expiry date.
- Operator type
- Limited Company
- Company number
- 00505225 on Companies House
How to read this record
- Standard International goods vehicle licence
- Carries goods for other people, for payment, in Great Britain and abroad.
- Curtailed
- A traffic commissioner has reduced what the licence allows, for example fewer vehicles, for a period.
- Vehicles and trailers authorised
- The most vehicles and trailers the operator may use under the licence. The number specified is how many are listed on it now.
- Operating centre
- Where the vehicles are kept when not in use. A licence can have several.
- Continuation date
- The licence is continued on this date every five years. The fee for a goods licence is due by the end of the month before. It is not an expiry date.
- Traffic area
- The Traffic Commissioner's area that issued the licence. Its letter is the second letter of the licence number.
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Key facts
- Next continuation: 30 April 2028, in 18 months. The goods continuation fee is due by 31 March 2028.
- With 21 vehicles authorised, it is the 9th largest of the 31 company licences with an operating centre in Darwen, and holds 4% of the vehicles authorised there.
- It authorises more vehicles than 89% of the 7,497 company licences in the North West of England traffic area, where the median is 4 vehicles.
- It lists 1 operating centre, the same as the median of 1 for company licences in the North West of England traffic area.
- Companies House register at 30 September 2026: active; incorporated 8 March 1952 (74 years before the register date); nature of business: wholesale of waste and scrap; next accounts due 31 December 2026.
Company register
Companies House register at 30 September 2026
- Status
- Active
- Incorporated
- 8 March 195274 years before the register date
- Accounts
- Next due 31 December 2026Last made up to 31 March 2025
- Confirmation statement
- Next due 3 February 2027Last made up to 20 January 2026
- Nature of business
- Wholesale of waste and scrap (46770)
Gazette insolvency notices: none for company 00505225 since 1 January 2026, read up to 7 October 2026. Contains information from The Gazette licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
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Traffic Commissioner decisions
No written decision (published since January 2025) and no entry in Applications and Decisions or Notices and Proceedings (since January 2026) names this licence number. All decisions on GOV.UK
Operating centres 1
Where the vehicles are kept when not in use.
Cross Street Albert Mill
Darwen, BB3 2PN
Change history
What changed between each weekly DVSA file we hold.
History starts from the DVSA file dated . It is the only DVSA file we hold so far.
About Frank Barnes (Darwen) Ltd
- Is Frank Barnes (Darwen) Ltd licensed?
- Frank Barnes (Darwen) Ltd holds operator licence OC0051353. In the DVSA file dated 7 September 2026 its status is curtailed.
- What type of operator licence does Frank Barnes (Darwen) Ltd hold?
- Standard International goods vehicle licence (OC0051353). Carries goods for other people, for payment, in Great Britain and abroad.
- When is Frank Barnes (Darwen) Ltd's continuation date?
- 30 April 2028. The licence is continued on this date every five years. The fee for a goods licence is due by the end of the month before. It is not an expiry date.
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DVSA file 7 Sep 2026Source: DVSA operator licence data, file dated , read . We last checked DVSA for a newer file on 7 October 2026. How we read it
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