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Street name plates

An example of a street name plate

Warwick District Council's Engineering Services has a responsibility to ensure that most streets and other thoroughfares are not only named, but have a street name plate to identify them. However, we do not provide or maintain name plates for private roads, properties accessed from private communal driveways or individually named apartment blocks.

It is important, as we travel further from our local area, that we can find where we are and where we want to go quickly and efficiently. Most importantly, it is vital in the event of an urgent situation that you and your street can be located quickly by the emergency services.

The District Council is also responsible for the repair and maintenance of street name plates. This becomes necessary either due to accidental damage, vandalism or normal wear and tear.

Following a report, the street name plate is inspected to establish whether a repair is viable or whether a new plate is required. Unfortunately, it can take a few months for a new street name plate to appear because they are individually manufactured on a one off basis.

How to make a report

To report a missing or faulty street name plate, you can fill in our Engineering Services Request Form or email to engineering@warwickdc.gov.uk. You may also write to the following address:

Engineering Services

Warwick District Council

Riverside House

Milverton Hill

Royal Leamington Spa

CV32 5HZ

Alternatively, please call 01926 456 343.

New developments

On new housing or office developments, the responsibility for providing the first street name plate rests with the property developer. After that, once the road is adopted by Warwickshire County Council, the name plate will be maintained or replaced by the District Council in the event of damage.

If you would like to request for a Street Name Plate Specification, please fill in our Engineering Services Request Form.

Additional information

For your information, requests for new street name plates for roads and lanes that have not been named before are channelled through the relevant Parish or Town Council to ensure that local people and local variations of names have been considered. Kindly go to our Street Naming page for more information.

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Page Last Modified: 30 Sep 2008