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New street names should not duplicate any similar name already in use in the borough.  A variation in the terminal word, for example Street, Road and 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, should only be used in roads of short lengths.

All new street names should end with one of the following 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)

Suffixes which are not acceptable are:

• end
• court
• cross
• side
• view
• walk
• park
• meadow 

All these words can, of course , be incorporated in a street name provided it ends with an appropriate suffix (example Mile End Road) 

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 word 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. 

Avoid having two phonetically similar names within a postal area and, if possible, within a borough, e.g. Alfred Road and Alfred Close or Churchill Road and Birch Hill Road.