When can a plot of land have a house name?
Discussion
Street naming and numbering is usually dealt with by the Building Control department of the local authority.
As a general rule, the will be unwilling to allocate a postal address until you have a detailed planning consent showing how many buildings are intended, their use, and what their arrangement is. Otherwise, they will usually decline on the sensible grounds that they don't know how many postal numbers will be required for the plot (it could end up with a single, large detached house or a block of 15 flats...).
As a general rule, the will be unwilling to allocate a postal address until you have a detailed planning consent showing how many buildings are intended, their use, and what their arrangement is. Otherwise, they will usually decline on the sensible grounds that they don't know how many postal numbers will be required for the plot (it could end up with a single, large detached house or a block of 15 flats...).
Sam_68 said:
Street naming and numbering is usually dealt with by the Building Control department of the local authority.
As a general rule, the will be unwilling to allocate a postal address until you have a detailed planning consent showing how many buildings are intended, their use, and what their arrangement is. Otherwise, they will usually decline on the sensible grounds that they don't know how many postal numbers will be required for the plot (it could end up with a single, large detached house or a block of 15 flats...).
A retired farmer originally owned the land were we used to live. When he was short of funds he sold some land for building. The plots were not sold sequentially so all houses had to be named as there was no idea the number of houses that would be built in later developments.As a general rule, the will be unwilling to allocate a postal address until you have a detailed planning consent showing how many buildings are intended, their use, and what their arrangement is. Otherwise, they will usually decline on the sensible grounds that they don't know how many postal numbers will be required for the plot (it could end up with a single, large detached house or a block of 15 flats...).
When I bought our plot we were told that all the houses where to be named as no numbers would be allocated. Most of the others owners had gates made and stone blocks with the house name in them. Just before I finished the council came along and gave us all numbers for the correct postal addresses, yipee could not think of a name anyway. By the way they all had plot numbers as addresses for deliveries and utility companys etc
Edited by robwilk on Tuesday 19th May 09:07
Bought my "named" house in a road that had numbers for the first part of the road. I wondered why I didn't get a gas bill for the first twelve months.
BG had the house numbered as 100 with no name recorded!
There are only 10 houses between mine and No32 which is the last of the numbered houses.
So the developers and utility companies can get it very wrong.
BG had the house numbered as 100 with no name recorded!
There are only 10 houses between mine and No32 which is the last of the numbered houses.
So the developers and utility companies can get it very wrong.
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