---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: "Andy Berry" <[email protected]> Date: 27 Dec 2010 17:51 Subject: Street Names To: <[email protected]>
The Street Naming and Numbering Authority is the local council. They decide and name the streets, They are also responsible for name plates, but sometimes mistakes are made by the sign maker. Royal Mail PAF is made up by the post men, although they are informed by the local council, but PAF has no legal standing. Ordnance Survey use PAF to create Address Layer 2, as its designed to be a postal address file for the postmen to deliver letters. The Land Registry use Address Layer 2 to determine their road name. Hopefully this will all be sorted out in the next couple of years with the creation of a national address database, created between Local Councils and Ordnance Survey. It looks like Royal Mail will be sidelined as they just make the names up. Hope this helps
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