To want the council or whoever to change our street name?

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We live in a new Close. Lets call it Numpty Close. Basically, it's the top end of a T junction with both ends closed.
The Flats are to the Right and the Houses to the Left. Both ends are called Numpty Close and both have numbers 1-20.
The only difference is that the Flats have an extra line in their address called Arno House.

So, we live in No15, Numpty Close and Mr Ed lives in No15, Arno House, Numpty Close.

There is one little sign which is often parked in front of with arrows pointing both ways and Arno house under one arrow.

Do you see my problem?

All my deliveries go to the flats and the guy who lives there is obviously rarely home and just chucks away delivery notes.
Last night I had to walk out in the freezing cold to the flats to collect a pizza as the driver couldn't speak english very well to understand our direction. It's a nightmare.

AIBU to expect whoever came up with this ridiculous system to come back and change it and more importantly who should that be?

Yanbu,I feel for you,could you not give your house a name,that might help with the delivery problems.
I wouldnt have a clue who would be responsible for naming a road,but looking at some of the ones that have been named here recently,its somebody with not much imagination.

YANBU

The word "Numpty" is bad enough - but on top of that you've got the confusion with house numbers.

BTW - I live on Dick Lane (true!!)

Who choses these names?

YANBU

But I haven't got a clue how you'd go about getting the council to change it, sorry.

I would ask your councillor. These types of silly addressing drive me mad - I have a different issue in that our address is based on the path behind the vehicle access road and the vast majority of the houses with this postcode are in the access road next to ours - and there's a road round the corner with virtually the same name. WHY? There aren't enough names? Name the road after me!

YANBU!

Canvass the neighbours with a petition...it sometimes works becuause a man in my steet did it to stop people parking at the top of the road....it was strangers who were sharing cars to get into the city and our road had become a sort of meeting point where they abandoned their vehicles to get into another.

Then contact your councilor...in the meantime you could onstruct your own "Numpty Street" sign....and tack/prop it somewhere people can see it.

Thanks everylone. I've found the post office form and will also try mailing the council if I can find the right department.

At the council you need the person responsible for 'street naming and numbering'. Probably in the highways department.

Get letters of suupport - much more effective than a petition which doesn't require much effort than a petition, and therefore is weighted accordingly. Your Parish (local government not church)/ town council may also support you. Find out when the next meeting is and get up and argue your case in the public speaking section.

Send your petition / letters of support from other residents to the Highways Department at the local council ( check on the website at both County and Borough level to see which loooks after it). I would reccommend that you get a name and speak to the person first so they know you know how to mither them. They will be able to adivse you on the status of the road, which will determine who has the right to change the name (if it is a new estate and the road is unadopted then it may well be the developer).

Don't expect the response to be fast as it can be an expensive business to change the name, due to the public and statutory consultation required.

Could be worse. You could live here

RustyBear - so it can be just any perv in Highways Department that choses a street name like that, or my Dick Lane one, or the OP's Numpty one.

Proposterous!!

I don't thinkl the OP is actually complaining about the name of the street itself (think Numpty was just in reference to whoever came up with the house/flat arrangement so all the post goes to the wrong place)

StealthPolarBear - yes, I'm with you now.