Department for Transport Circular Roads 3/93 Appendix C

Department for Transport Circular Roads 3/93 Appendix C

APPENDIX C

RECOMMENDATIONS FOR THE DESIGN OF STREET NAME PLATES

1. Unlike street name-plates there is no legal requirement for the numbers of premises when displayed to be conspicuous except where authorities have taken special powers in local Acts. Nevertheless, every effort should be made to persuade owners and tenants to ensure that properties are clearly numbered and to adopt the recommendations in paragraph 5 below.
2. Main roads should be numbered so that when travelling away from the centre of town the odd numbers are on the left hand side and even numbers on the right. Succeeding numbers should be approximately opposite one another, even though this may mean the omission of certain numbers where frontages vary (Suffix letters may be used in such cases as an alternative). Side roads should be numbered ascending from the main road.
3. The postal authorities (ie the local Royal Mail Postcode Centre) should be consulted on numbering pedestrian type layouts and other complex urban developments.
4. In small groups of low rise flats, dwellings should be numbered within the ordinary street numbering system, but in tall blocks of flats each flat should be numbered so that the number indicates the floor level. The numbers of the flats contained in each block should also appear at the entrance to the block in a position clearly readable from the roadside.
5. All houses, offices, business establishments and other premises should be numbered, preferably with a minimum size of numerals of 62.5mm, and their numbers should be displayed so as to be in a clearly readable position facing the road. Mounting may be on gates, gate posts, doors or walls as appropriate, but ensuring that there is a good colour contrast between the numerals and the background to which they are fixed.