My family has always had dogs and we used to breed and show a different breed to what we have now. We never crated our dogs only the showing dogs when at shows. So after a 10 year break of having dogs I decided it was time for us to get a dog again. We introduce a crate and the dog has never got on well with it. He is now 9 months old. He will settle at night but will try and destroy everything he can through the crate or in the crate. I want to remove the crate as we would like to get him a companion where they have a bit more freedom and also we don’t have the room for two crates. I regret ever using one as I feel it’s more of an issue with him and he just hates going in. He sulks and even when I reward him with toys and treats in his crate. I have tried a few times over night leaving the crate door open and him having the kitchen to himself and he will urinate in the night with no barking to let us know he wants to go out. He has at times peed in the night and then decided to bark later on to ask to go out. He is a dog in the day who likes his comforts and would be more than happy for him to continue having them in the night but he is destructive when alone and the urinating is an issue.

Does anyone have any advice?

For the weeing I'd start house training again as if he was a puppy. Let him out to see late at night and if needed get up in the night to let him out then back to bed then slowly increase the time between the laser see and the night time wee

Sounds like u need to just remove the crate and go back to basics as if he is new puppy
. Set an alarm to let him out at regular times during the night making .make sure he has had a wee last thing as well .
U can the slowly increase the time between letting him.out until he is holding all night .
I've used crates but I have had 2 who never settled in them pretty quickly  i gave up with crates and they came and slept with us. It may  be he would be happier sleeping in your room. If that's practical and u will hear him if he is disturbed

Snap jo :)

He can hold it all night. If we have slept downstairs for whatever reason he sleeps on the sofa and no accidents and he doesn’t urinate in his crate and can go comfortably all night. It is only if he is alone with free roam of a room does this happen. We have even caught him urinating an hour after he has been let out.

Can u have him in the bedroom with u ? It sounds like he is stressed at being separated from the family. 
How is during the day if everyone goes out and he isn't in his crate ?

He’s destructive 9/10. He isn’t left alone much. Maybe on school run so about 1/2 hour morning and afternoon. Sometimes he sleeps other times he’s destructive. If he’s crated when we go out he just barks. He is very much for me as I put the most time in with him and can be destructive if me and my husband are out of the room but there are other adults or children in the room with him. Even if I go out and he’s with my husband he will bark cause I have left but doesn’t behave like this for other people. This is part of the reason I thought he may benefit from a companion to help him.

Sounds like he has separation anxiety  and that needs to be worked on first 
Getting another dog could be a gamble as to if it will solve the problem
Hopefully some of the people here who are more experienced than I am in dealing with this will come and long with suggestions

It sounds like you need to go right back to the start and treat him as you would any new puppy. I really would not introduce another dog until you have got this one as you want him though. Getting another will not 'cure' him. You'll just end up with two dogs that can't be left and are destructive.