Street naming and numbering guidance

When naming new streets, the following conventions should be considered:

5.1    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 - Typically tree lined)
• Drive (for residential roads)
• Place (for residential roads)
• Lane (for residential roads)
• Grove (for residential roads)
• Mews (for residential roads)
• Gardens (for residential roads - subject to there being no confusion with local open space)
• Crescent (for a crescent shaped road)
• Close (for a cul-de-sac only)
• Court (for a cul-de-sac only)
• Yard (for a cul-de-sac only)
• Square (for a square only)
• Hill (for a hillside road only)
• Circus (for a roundabout only)
• Terrace (for a terrace of houses, but not as a subsidiary name within another road (see Section 4.8)
• Lane (for development of a historic by-way)
• Vale (for residential roads in exceptional circumstances)
• Walk (for residential roads in exceptional circumstances)
• Rise (for residential roads in exceptional circumstances)
• Row (for residential roads in exceptional circumstances)
• Wharf (for residential roads in exceptional circumstances - but typically adjacent water)
• Dene (for residential roads in exceptional circumstances)
• Mead (for residential roads in exceptional circumstances)

5.2 Non-acceptable suffixes are as follows:

• End
• Cross
• Side
• View
• Park
• Meadow

All the above can be incorporated in a street name provided it ends with an appropriate suffix (e.g. Mile End Road, Corn Meadow Drive)

5.3 Exceptions or single or dual names without suffixes should only be used in appropriate place (i.e. Broadway - for major roads only).

5.4 All pedestrian ways should have the following suffixes:

• Walk
• Path
• Way

5.5 The use of North, South, East or West (as in South Ribble Road North and South Ribble Road South) is not acceptable when the road is in two separate parts. In such a case, one half should be completely renamed.

5.6 Phonetically similar names within an area should be avoided (i.e. South Ribble Road and South Ribble Close, or Churchill Road and Birchill Road).