Our street naming and numbering service is responsible for allocating house numbers and road names to new developments and property conversions. You are not legally permitted to allocate your own house number, building or street names.
We also maintain the definitive record, known as the local land and property gazetteer, of all street names and property addresses in North Yorkshire.
Street naming and house numbering is important because:
- it allows people, organisations and postal and emergency services to locate and reference properties
- if a property is not registered through our process it will not appear on the local land and property gazetteer. Addresses not listed on the gazetter will have difficulties in getting post, goods and services from a variety of sources such as applying for a credit card or having goods delivered
- the main address database is shared with Royal Mail, emergency services, credit agencies, satellite navigation system suppliers and many private companies
All new addresses are allocated in line with British Standard 7666. This puts restrictions on what we can and cannot accept.
Post code and post town allocation
We will request a postcode on your behalf, however, Royal Mail is responsible for the allocation of postcodes and post towns to postal addresses.
They will only add an address to their live address database when the property is completed and able to receive post, in the meantime, new addresses are held on a database properties not yet built.
In accordance with the Royal Mail code of practice, a postcode is a sorting and routing instruction to their staff that enables them to deliver items quickly and accurately and is not always a geographically accurate description of where a property is located. As a result, the town or city on your postal address may be different than the town or village you reside in as the post town is the closest sorting office to that address.
Find out more and how to contact them on the Royal Mail website.
