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Changing house name.

Tony Lockhart

Tony Lockhart

Avoiding Stress, at Every Opportunity
A few properties around us have a similar name to ours, and since moving here in October a few parcels have been incorrectly delivered.

It's getting a little annoying, so we are considering changing the name our place to something completely different.

Has anyone here gone through the process? We don't have a house number, only the name. I've looked into it on t'interweb and it all looks straightforward enough, but as ever I suppose a local busy body could make it unnecessarily difficult.

Cheers
 
You will have to contact the Post Office. A certain Mick P gave advice on this topic a few years ago on here or on the N Forum.

If Mick is in the UK it might be worth PM ing him for advice.
 
I like it!

Something Completely Different
Acorn Street
SomeTown
UK

Really, change the name to Something Completely Different... :)


and its the council you need, not the post office.
 
666 - the number of The Beast
668 - the number of The Beast's next door neighbor
 
We live on a long street which runs through different towns, and each time it reaches a new town, the street numbers start again from 1. This means that our exact house number/street occurs 3 times within a mile or so, but with different town names. Since we live in Brighton&Hove, there's a Brighton one, and a Hove one, and even the postman has to guess with some deliveries.

I always find it amusing where we pass stately home sized monstrosities which have unassuming names like 'rose cottage' and have a detached garage larger than our house ;-)
 
sam_cat said:
and its the council you need, not the post office.
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I'd tell both. When I worked as a temporay Chritmas postie in my student days, the sorters used to mark up the sorting racks with changes to house names and numbers etc. notified by householders.
 
Cesare said:
We live on a long street which runs through different towns, and each time it reaches a new town, the street numbers start again from 1. This means that our exact house number/street occurs 3 times within a mile or so, but with different town names. Since we live in Brighton&Hove, there's a Brighton one, and a Hove one, and even the postman has to guess with some deliveries.

I always find it amusing where we pass stately home sized monstrosities which have unassuming names like 'rose cottage' and have a detached garage larger than our house ;-)
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Detached garage, but not really big enough to live in. Hmmmm.....
 
Cesare said:
We live on a long street which runs through different towns, and each time it reaches a new town, the street numbers start again from 1. This means that our exact house number/street occurs 3 times within a mile or so, but with different town names. Since we live in Brighton & Hove, .......
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Wouldn't be the A259 by any chance? Possibly Southwick the third town (if it's big enough)? A much travelled but very slow road if so.
 
Derek Wright said:
You will have to contact the Post Office. A certain Mick P gave advice on this topic a few years ago on here or on the N Forum.

If Mick is in the UK it might be worth PM ing him for advice.
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Of course, if Mick isn't in the U.K. a pm might not work on an international forum.:rolleyes:
 
Mike Reed said:
Wouldn't be the A259 by any chance? Possibly Southwick the third town (if it's big enough)? A much travelled but very slow road if so.
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Close, the A270, or Old Shoreham Road.

Actually, looking at it on google maps, it's actually not as bad as I thought. The other one to us is 400 yards away, but the next one along is Portslade, and that's 3 miles away. I now have less respect for the delivery drivers who shrug when I point out they are in the wrong place ;-)

Last month our piano mover turned up at the Brighton version, so we had a very confusing phone conversation as they were saying 'but we're ringing the bell and noone is in'. Turning a large removals van around in a narrow busy road wasn't fun for them.
 
"Last month our piano mover turned up at the Brighton version"

Not something I'll ever have to say!
 
Tony Lockhart said:
When was that?
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An embarrassingly long time ago - 1968-70 if you must know :)

I expect your Council will need to know but I wouldn't rely on them passing on the info to the Post Office. Have you had a word with your postman? He/she will know how things work in practice rather than theory.
 
I have read all about the procedure, but I just need to know if it's as straight forward as it seems. Once we start things moving, I'll chat with the postie.

We are close to choosing a new name, and no, it won't include Naim, Apaches, 911s, mountain biking, beer, Tornado jets, curry, chillies.....
 
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