Street Naming & Numbering

STREET NAMING AND NUMBERING

The Council is responsible for the allocation of postal addresses throughout the borough.

BUILDING NUMBERS

Numbers are allocated to enable easy and rapid location of buildings by both routine and emergency callers. Courtyards and short culs-de-sac usually have consecutive numbering whilst through roads and longer culs-de-sac have an odds and evens scheme ascending away from the town or village centre.

HOUSE NAMES

The allocation of a house name is permitted but where a numbering scheme is in place it would be additional to that number and not a replacement. In such cases there is no requirement to inform the Council. This is not the case in some parts of the district where a numbering scheme is not in place. Here any new names need to be checked out by the Council to help avoid duplication or similarity. Expectations are that building owners will undertake their own research at the outset.

STREET NAMES

These are first allocated in partnership with the developer who may make original suggestions or select from a pre-determined list. In the rural areas and in Yarm and Thornaby the parish or local town council are invited to make comment.

Suggestions for new street names are welcome, particularly those with a local connection. Please contcat us with details of your proposal.

General repairs are carried out to any street furniture or street name plates when these are deemed as being unsafe or unreadable. Where possible aesthetic works will also be carried out.

POSTAL TOWNS

In a postal address the street name may be followed by an area name, i.e. Hartburn, Thornaby, or Ingleby Barwick, and then, for our area, one of the following postal town names:

Billingham, Darlington, Middlesbrough, Stockton-on-Tees, or Yarm

COUNTY NAME

Since local government re-organisation in 1996, Stockton-on-Tees became a Unitary Authority. The county name of Cleveland no longer forms part of local postal addresses. For inland purposes addresses terminate with the town name and postcode.

However it can happen, particularly on-line, that mention of a county name is required to make progress. In that case it may be necessary to relate to "Teesside" or "Cleveland".

POST CODE

Having established the address up to the postal town we then consult the Royal Mail for allocation of the full postcode and having received that we inform the developer or householder as appropriate.

DISPATCH OF INFORMATION

Beyond the housebuilder or occupier of property we have a list of interested parties who need address information. This includes not just other areas of the Council but the emergency services, statutory undertakers, Durham District Land Registry and map makers. These people receive a monthly list of new and amended postal addresses.