Changing house name. Possible unintended consequences?

Owain_Moneysaver

onomatopoeia99 wrote: »

Among the names councils won't let you choose are numbers, so calling your house "Seven" is out.

Unless of course you live at no. 7.

PasturesNew

There is a "right way" of doing it which you must follow. The bottom line with the "right way" is so the fire brigade and ambulance and police can find you in a life/death emergency.

giraffe69

If you do it without getting the ok then you have endless trouble with delivery companies who use the address database produced by Royal Mail.

As for names not numbers I live in a village and there are no numbers around me whether I like it or not. The house did have another name but over 25 years ago and it was still on some property documentation when we moved in.

pramsay13

Now with the three word system house numbers or post codes won't be as essential for emergency services.

dllive

PasturesNew wrote: »

There is a "right way" of doing it which you must follow. The bottom line with the "right way" is so the fire brigade and ambulance and police can find you in a life/death emergency.

Yes, I fully intend to do it the right way. But my confidence in the council and the Royal Mail etc... is lacking.

sevenhills

Davesnave wrote: »

Numbers aren't so useful in the country, where the layout and number system, if it exists, might not be logical.

Even our exact postcode encompasses places that are over half a mile apart by road. They might be within 70m of each other on the sat-nav, but that's only half the story.

If you used a number too, the postie and others would remember it, just because its the only house with a number.
Might be a good idea to count the number of houses, and use the correct number.

Owain_Moneysaver

sevenhills wrote: »

If you used a number too, the postie and others would remember it, just because its the only house with a number.
Might be a good idea to count the number of houses, and use the correct number.

If the house hasn't been allocated a number by the council, there isn't a correct number.

All houses should have either a name or a number, and a street name, and these will be recorded by the local authority to British Standard 7666 and submitted to the National land and Property Gazetteer.

Davesnave

Davesnave wrote: »

Numbers aren't so useful in the country, where the layout and number system, if it exists, might not be logical.

Even our exact postcode encompasses places that are over half a mile apart by road. They might be within 70m of each other on the sat-nav, but that's only half the story.

sevenhills wrote: »

If you used a number too, the postie and others would remember it, just because its the only house with a number.
Might be a good idea to count the number of houses, and use the correct number.

I don't really understand what you're saying here. Firstly, it's not the postman who has a problem, as he knows everybody, it's the numerous delivery drivers who get stuck

Usually, the conversation goes like this:

Van Man: Where is Little Bogtown? Is it here?
Me: No, this is Bogtown. Getting to Little Bogtown means going back to the road and turning right.
Van Man: But this is EX16 4LP?
Me: Yes.
Van Man: So Little Bogtown is near here?
Me: Yes, but you can't get to it this way.
Van Man: So what do I do?
Me: Go back to the road, turn right, drive 1/4 mile and you'll see a white cottage. Turn right behind that.
Van man: Then what?
Me: Just follow the road; it comes all the way back, nearly to here, but on the other side of the bog.
Van man: Thanks....err, behind the cottage? Is it marked?
Me: No, they've pots of money and want dodgy criminal people to think it's just a farm track.....and it's very bumpy!
Van Man: %$£*~~!!

Anyway, you're assuming the houses don't have numbers. Some do and some don't. We used to have a number but the Post Office took it away.

I think the problem here is postcode-related, but as we aren't the people who are hard to find, I'm not bothered. It's totally crazy to put two properties in the same post code when they're really over half a mile apart by road.

sevenhills

Davesnave wrote: »

I think the problem here is postcode-related, but as everyone can find us., I'm not bothered. Obviously, the people who don't even mark their own 1/4 mile entrance drive aren't helping either.

Thirty years ago when I was into parcel delivery, I used to get postcode books from Royal Mail, the named houses were all listed.
As I recall, the books were free.

onomatopoeia99

sevenhills wrote: »

If you used a number too, the postie and others would remember it, just because its the only house with a number.
Might be a good idea to count the number of houses, and use the correct number.

The council won't let you on a street with no numbers, because if they decide to introduce numbers it would cause them problems in future if more houses have been built in the meantime. Never mind that as there are no numbers, there is no "correct" number as who knows what end to start counting from or which side should be even numbers.