Naming streets and buildings - guidance
Apply for a new street name or number
New street names should not duplicate any similar name already in use in the borough. A variation in the terminal word, example, "Street", "Road", "Avenue", will not be accepted as sufficient reason to duplicate a name.
Street names should not be difficult to pronounce or awkward to spell. In general, words of more than three syllables should be avoided and this precludes the use of two words except in special cases.
Subsidiary names, such as a row of buildings within an already named road being called "..... Terrace", should only be used in roads of short lengths.
All new street names should end with one of the suffixes:
- Street for any thoroughfare
- Road for any thoroughfare
- Way for major roads
- Avenue for residential roads
- Drive for residential roads
- Grove for residential roads
- Lane for residential roads
- Gardens for residential roads (subject to there being no confusion with any with any local space)
- Place for residential roads
- Crescent for a crescent shaped road
- Close for a cul-de-sac
- Square for a square only
- Hill for a hillside road only
- Vale for residential roads (only for exceptional use)
- Rise for residential roads (only for exceptional use)
- Row for residential roads (only for exceptional use)
- Wharf for residential roads (only for exceptional use)
- End
- Court
- Cross
- Side
- View
- Walk
- Park
- Meadow
Exceptions: Single or dual names without suffixes in appropriate places (example, Broadway for major roads only).
All new pedestrian ways should end with one of the following suffixes:
- Walk
- Path
- Way
No street or building name to start with "The".
All new building names should end with one of the following suffixes:
- Lodge
- Apartments
- Mansions
- House
- Court - residential only
For private houses it is sufficient that the name should not repeat the name of the road or that of any other house or building in the area.
The use of North, East, South or West (as in Lynn Street South and Lynn Street North, or East or West) is only acceptable where the road is continuous and passes over a major junction. It is not acceptable when the road is in two separate parts with no vehicular access between the two. In such a case half should be renamed.
