Developer Registered Plot Number, and not the house number.

Maka344

We are interested in purchasing a house within a small development of 10 properties. The house is approximately 3 years old and was registered as 4a, though it should actually be numbered as 10. The same issue applies to the last three houses, which were completed at the same time.

Additionally, the house has a name.

Could the 4a designation be updated or changed to the correct house number, 10? If so, what is the process to do this? Thanks. 

user1977

Yes, but what makes you think it matters what it's called?

daveyjp

All that matters is the Royal Mail address.  If "registered" means Land Registry all that matters for them is an accurate plan as the identifier of the plot.

Maka344

daveyjp said:

All that matters is the Royal Mail address.  If "registered" means Land Registry all that matters for them is an accurate plan as the identifier of the plot.

Thank you. It shows as 4a on the Royal Mail site. 

doodling

Hi,

Maka344 said:

daveyjp said:

All that matters is the Royal Mail address.  If "registered" means Land Registry all that matters for them is an accurate plan as the identifier of the plot.

Thank you. It shows as 4a on the Royal Mail site. 

There are two separate issues here:

Land Registry

This covers ownership and it doesn't really matter what any text relating to the property says, what matters is the map.  For example, it doesn't matter if the land registry description says "Buckingham Palace", what you are buying is the bit of land (and anything on that land, even if it doesn't show a house at all) outlined in red on the Land Registry plan.

Postal Address

How have you associated the physical land with the postal address?  The correct way to do this is to look at the Ordnance Survey AddressBase database (managed jointly by the local authority and the OS) which links premises to physical location (e.g. look at https://www.findmyaddress.co.uk/ ).  Each premises is given a Unique Property Reference Number (UPRN), linked to a physical location and an address and in turn, the Royal Mail assigns postcodes to UPRNs (a postcode may cover several UPRNs).  If you want to change your address then you need to get that UPRN database updated (by speaking to the local authority) and the Royal Mail will then assign it to an existing, or new postcode.  Note that this will be virtually impossible if you want to use an already existing address (i.e. if there is already a number 10 in your case).