Street Naming and Numbering Form (New
Developments)
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PLEASE SUPPLY THE FOLLOWING PLANS:
E mail Street
Naming & Numbering
(1) Site location plan; and
(2) Plan indicating
streets, entrances to property, and street numbers of a minimum of
two properties to either side for identification.
PLEASE NOTE THAT APPLICATIONS WILL
TAKE APPROXIMATELY 2 WEEKS TO COMPLETE.
Notes
Legislation: The naming and
numbering of streets and buildings within Bromsgrove is a Statutory
Function of Redditch Council and is covered by Sections 64 & 65
of the Towns Improvement Clauses Act 1847 and Section18 and 19 of
the Public Health 1925.
Applications are only accepted from
property owners, not occupiers or tenants. We require plans to
accompany all applications. This is so there can be no
doubt about the property involved. The location plan should be at
1:2500. (For a single property we can supply you with a plan –
please contact the Street Naming and Numbering Team. For new
developments a site layout must be provided showing any suggested
road names and details of plot numbers (for convenience a maximum
size of A3 is preferred). In the case of flats/apartments, internal
layout plans are required showing the position of each unit within
the building.
Adding a house names: A name
can be added to a property that has a street or building number eg
41 High Street but Royal Mail will only hold this as an ‘alias’.
Owners and occupiers can use the name but must retain the number as
part of their address.
Postcodes and addresses:
Royal Mail are responsible for the issue of Postcodes. They
also register the address formally into their Postcode Address File
(PAF). Sometimes the town, locality or Postcode may not be as you
expect. Bromsgrove register the address as a true location address
but Royal Mail register the address for the purpose of the delivery
of mail and so have their own criteria. This is out of the
Council’s control.
Flats and buildings in multiple
occupation: If mail for a building is delivered to a
single letter box, and occupants then collect their own mail, then
Royal Mail class this as a ‘building in multiple occupation’ and
will only register the parent building and not individual
flats.
Flats and apartments: These
should be numbered rather than described or lettered – Flat 1
rather than Ground Floor Flat or Flat A. (The lowest number should
be at the bottom of the block).
New buildings and ‘infill’
plots: Where possible we will number these into the street
that provides access – using a suffix if necessary (eg 1A, 1B etc).
Where streets are not numbered, as in many rural settlements, the
naming of properties will be acceptable.
Merged properties: Where two
or more properties on a numbered street are merged the numbers or
the original properties should be retained. For example, 8 and 10
New Street being combined would become 8-10 New Street.
Further information or help with this
form
01527 881425
E mail Street
Naming & Numbering
