Street Naming Conventions
When naming new streets, the following conventions should be considered:
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)
- 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)
- 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)
- Rise (for residential roads in exceptional circumstances)
- Row (for residential roads in exceptional circumstances)
- Wharf (for residential roads in exceptional circumstances)
- Dene (for residential roads in exceptional circumstances)
- Mead (for residential roads in exceptional circumstances)
- End (for residential roads in exceptional circumstances)
- Side (for residential roads in exceptional circumstances)
- View (for residential roads in exceptional circumstances)
- Park (for residential roads in exceptional circumstances)
- Meadow (for residential roads in exceptional circumstances)
Exceptions such as single or dual names without suffixes should only be used in an appropriate context (i.e. Broadway - for major roads only).
All pedestrianised streets should use the following suffixes:
- Walk
- Path
- Way
The use of North, South, East or East (as in Chorley Road North and Chorley Road South) is not acceptable when the road is in two separate parts. In such a case, one half should be completely renamed.
Phonetically similar names within an area should be avoided (i.e. Chorley Road and Chorley Close, or Churchill Road and Birchill Road)