Legal requirement: house numbers
Discussion
blueg33 said:
Those who say they live on streets where some of the houses have no number. I would be interested to do a postcode search to see what it throws up.
Today I searched 5 streets in different old villages that i know. Every single one has attributed numbers to houses that show names.
CV35 8LUToday I searched 5 streets in different old villages that i know. Every single one has attributed numbers to houses that show names.
I always thought the emergency services used some kind of witchcraft to find houses. If I have a parcel coming with a new courier, close to zero % chance they'll find the house. Single track road with about half a dozen houses over a couple of miles. I hate gardening and so my garden is pretty overgrown and the 'gate' (has a name on) is like a tunnel under some green things. Also name on the house wall - but not lit and some way from the road.
I woke up one night and could barely breath (only a torn intercostal muscle it turned out) and called 999 for the first time in my life. Wife was away with kids (as I'd been at an event) and ambulance pulled up right outside, not the usual courier dance of driving up and down the lane before giving up!
I woke up one night and could barely breath (only a torn intercostal muscle it turned out) and called 999 for the first time in my life. Wife was away with kids (as I'd been at an event) and ambulance pulled up right outside, not the usual courier dance of driving up and down the lane before giving up!
donkmeister said:
I'm not sure if it is all of Horsell or just part of Horsell (Horsell is a part of Woking) but in that area no house (and I mean not one solitary, single house) has a number. I have friends there, and it is an absolute ball-ache to find their house. First time I went there, I had to kerb crawl around the area until I found it. Now I know vaguely where it is I only have to kerb crawl for a hundred yards or so.
The local post office keeps a map of what-house-is-where, but every now and then some local residents club together to try and get all the houses numbered for convenience's sake, then some idiot blocks it because they want to live somewhere that's a bit different.
So, no. There is no universally-enforced requirement that houses have numbers. Otherwise Woking could not exist.
Bloody stupid though.
Ha, was going to mention Horsell. Not that small a village either. Some houses do have numbers but not very many and plenty of roads with a mix of both. The local post office keeps a map of what-house-is-where, but every now and then some local residents club together to try and get all the houses numbered for convenience's sake, then some idiot blocks it because they want to live somewhere that's a bit different.
So, no. There is no universally-enforced requirement that houses have numbers. Otherwise Woking could not exist.
Bloody stupid though.
Be glad your not in Ireland, they don't even have postcodes outside of Dublin and a few other major towns.
Selling on eBay to Ireland can be entertaining.
I've had addresses that along the lines of. Cottage across the road from the pub, main road, villiage. Ireland. Never lost one though, the local postie's must be used to it.
On another note SatNav's can have the postcode in the wrong place, put the postcode for my employer's into a TomTom and you'll find yourself 10 miles from where you want to be. I do warn people to use the building number and road address but they take no notice and wonder why they can't find us..
Selling on eBay to Ireland can be entertaining.
I've had addresses that along the lines of. Cottage across the road from the pub, main road, villiage. Ireland. Never lost one though, the local postie's must be used to it.
On another note SatNav's can have the postcode in the wrong place, put the postcode for my employer's into a TomTom and you'll find yourself 10 miles from where you want to be. I do warn people to use the building number and road address but they take no notice and wonder why they can't find us..
blueg33 said:
Those who say they live on streets where some of the houses have no number. I would be interested to do a postcode search to see what it throws up.
Today I searched 5 streets in different old villages that i know. Every single one has attributed numbers to houses that show names.
ME17 4NSToday I searched 5 streets in different old villages that i know. Every single one has attributed numbers to houses that show names.
Thanks, that's interesting. Hadn't thought of trying Claverdon, I chose Cotswold villages, so maybe there is a difference between authorities.
Doesn't change the fact that every new house we have built has to have a number, including in Wiltshire. There are many times when a name would have been preferable for us.
Doesn't change the fact that every new house we have built has to have a number, including in Wiltshire. There are many times when a name would have been preferable for us.
blueg33 said:
Thanks, that's interesting. Hadn't thought of trying Claverdon, I chose Cotswold villages, so maybe there is a difference between authorities.
Doesn't change the fact that every new house we have built has to have a number, including in Wiltshire. There are many times when a name would have been preferable for us.
Any new house will typically follow the policy for the road - it would be highly unlikely for the Council to allow a house to have only a name on a road of numbered houses.Doesn't change the fact that every new house we have built has to have a number, including in Wiltshire. There are many times when a name would have been preferable for us.
blueg33 said:
Thanks, that's interesting. Hadn't thought of trying Claverdon, I chose Cotswold villages, so maybe there is a difference between authorities.
Doesn't change the fact that every new house we have built has to have a number, including in Wiltshire. There are many times when a name would have been preferable for us.
Cotswold village here - total mix...Doesn't change the fact that every new house we have built has to have a number, including in Wiltshire. There are many times when a name would have been preferable for us.
Older streets (high street / top road / those kinds of names) - no numbers, only names
Housing estates / newer developments - numbered...
Some numbering on older properties, but only in terms of qualifying the same name - e.g. No 1 Bill's Cottages / No 2 Bill's Cottages etc.
My house sits on one street and has a formal / legal postcode - but no access in from that street or postcode - access is from another street with a different postcode, where I own parking, but I don't own the land in-between!
Totally normal around here to not be able to find anything unless you already know where it is
garyhun said:
blueg33 said:
Thanks, that's interesting. Hadn't thought of trying Claverdon, I chose Cotswold villages, so maybe there is a difference between authorities.
Doesn't change the fact that every new house we have built has to have a number, including in Wiltshire. There are many times when a name would have been preferable for us.
Any new house will typically follow the policy for the road - it would be highly unlikely for the Council to allow a house to have only a name on a road of numbered houses.Doesn't change the fact that every new house we have built has to have a number, including in Wiltshire. There are many times when a name would have been preferable for us.
akirk said:
blueg33 said:
Thanks, that's interesting. Hadn't thought of trying Claverdon, I chose Cotswold villages, so maybe there is a difference between authorities.
Doesn't change the fact that every new house we have built has to have a number, including in Wiltshire. There are many times when a name would have been preferable for us.
Cotswold village here - total mix...Doesn't change the fact that every new house we have built has to have a number, including in Wiltshire. There are many times when a name would have been preferable for us.
Older streets (high street / top road / those kinds of names) - no numbers, only names
Housing estates / newer developments - numbered...
Some numbering on older properties, but only in terms of qualifying the same name - e.g. No 1 Bill's Cottages / No 2 Bill's Cottages etc.
My house sits on one street and has a formal / legal postcode - but no access in from that street or postcode - access is from another street with a different postcode, where I own parking, but I don't own the land in-between!
Totally normal around here to not be able to find anything unless you already know where it is
We live at 3 Church Street in our village.
A developer built 2 new builds on Church Street but instead of numbering them in line with the other houses came up with 1 & 3 Church View, they can't even see the church from where they are. Church View isn't a road and we constantly get mail for number 3.
It amazes me that the developer could do this.
A developer built 2 new builds on Church Street but instead of numbering them in line with the other houses came up with 1 & 3 Church View, they can't even see the church from where they are. Church View isn't a road and we constantly get mail for number 3.
It amazes me that the developer could do this.
Audicab said:
We live at 3 Church Street in our village.
A developer built 2 new builds on Church Street but instead of numbering them in line with the other houses came up with 1 & 3 Church View, they can't even see the church from where they are. Church View isn't a road and we constantly get mail for number 3.
It amazes me that the developer could do this.
That's marketing departments for you A developer built 2 new builds on Church Street but instead of numbering them in line with the other houses came up with 1 & 3 Church View, they can't even see the church from where they are. Church View isn't a road and we constantly get mail for number 3.
It amazes me that the developer could do this.
Audicab said:
We live at 3 Church Street in our village.
A developer built 2 new builds on Church Street but instead of numbering them in line with the other houses came up with 1 & 3 Church View, they can't even see the church from where they are. Church View isn't a road and we constantly get mail for number 3.
It amazes me that the developer could do this.
That's the fault of the council street naming and numbering officer. A developer built 2 new builds on Church Street but instead of numbering them in line with the other houses came up with 1 & 3 Church View, they can't even see the church from where they are. Church View isn't a road and we constantly get mail for number 3.
It amazes me that the developer could do this.
blueg33 said:
akirk said:
blueg33 said:
Thanks, that's interesting. Hadn't thought of trying Claverdon, I chose Cotswold villages, so maybe there is a difference between authorities.
Doesn't change the fact that every new house we have built has to have a number, including in Wiltshire. There are many times when a name would have been preferable for us.
Cotswold village here - total mix...Doesn't change the fact that every new house we have built has to have a number, including in Wiltshire. There are many times when a name would have been preferable for us.
Older streets (high street / top road / those kinds of names) - no numbers, only names
Housing estates / newer developments - numbered...
Some numbering on older properties, but only in terms of qualifying the same name - e.g. No 1 Bill's Cottages / No 2 Bill's Cottages etc.
My house sits on one street and has a formal / legal postcode - but no access in from that street or postcode - access is from another street with a different postcode, where I own parking, but I don't own the land in-between!
Totally normal around here to not be able to find anything unless you already know where it is
blueg33 said:
TooMany2cvs said:
Our official address is house name, village name, village-next-door name. No road name. Our village spreads about two miles in each direction from the centre. Next door to us are <very similar house name - we're cottage, they're farm>, village-next-door name. They share our postcode.
Your official address is highly likely to have a house number, you just may not be aware of itonomatopoeia said:
blueg33 said:
TooMany2cvs said:
Our official address is house name, village name, village-next-door name. No road name. Our village spreads about two miles in each direction from the centre. Next door to us are <very similar house name - we're cottage, they're farm>, village-next-door name. They share our postcode.
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