The following information may be useful to applicants. You can also view our Street Naming and Numbering Policy 112Kb PDF for additional information.

Street Naming

1. Street names of local geographical or historical interest may be acceptable.
2. Avoid names which could be ambiguous or have double meaning.
3. Naming roads after a 'living person' is not acceptable. Naming of a road after a well known local personality from a past era may be acceptable. It is essential that the person put forward lived in the town or village in question. In this case full names, e.g. Fred Smith, are to be avoided and surnames only, used. Naming roads after members of the developer's family is also to be avoided, unless they come under all of the above. If the developer experiences problems coming up with proposed road names, this Department will be happy to give assistance.
4. Marketing names for developments i.e. 'Sunny Brook View' may be incorporated into the address if the developers wish, although we will require plenty of notice, and suitability of the name in question will be looked at.
5. It would be advisable to have more than one choice of name in case your first choice is unacceptable. Please write down in order of preference.

Please Note: The final decision on street naming rests with us.

Street Numbering

1. When numbering, as you enter the road/development, odd numbers will appear on the left and evens on the right. Numbers will be left open ended to allow for possible continuation of the road/development at a later stage.
2. Where the development involves a Close, Court or Cul-De-Sac etc. and some of the properties front on to an existing road, these properties will be numbered using the same numbering sequence of that road and the address will reflect this approach. If there are no spare numbers available for that purpose A, B, C etc will be used after an existing number.
3. Every property must have a number, which is supplied by this Department. Names are an optional 'extra' and should be avoided if possible.
4. This way of numbering makes it easier for emergency services to find the property. The emergency services now use computerised mapping to find properties and the use of numbers ensures a property can be located quickly. Map alterations take time to change and a change in house name could lead to confusion in emergency situations.