House Names

The Council has no jurisdiction over house names the only guidance being that the owners should not choose one the same or similar to any other in the immediate locality.

The Council has no objection to a house name being added to an existing postal address, but the postal number cannot be deleted from that address.

House names alone are not favoured by the Council or the emergency services as a number readily identifies the location of a property in a road. Other than in exceptional circumstances a house number should be prominently displayed so as to be easily read from the public highway.

Unless the house name is the fundamental part of the postal address the Royal Mail keep house names in their ‘alias’ file.