South Norfolk - Adoption Of Street Naming & Numbering Powers

SOUTH NORFOLK COUNCIL

Notice Of Intention To Resolve To Adopt Public Health Act 1875, Section 160 pursuant to Local Government Act 1972, Schedule 14, Paragraph 25

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the South Norfolk Council shall consider a resolution to adopt the abovenamed provision at a Full Council Meeting to be held on 18th May 2026. The resolution shall take effect no sooner than one month after the date of the Full Council Meeting.

Public Health Act 1875, Section 160:

"160 Incorporation of certain provisions of 10 & 11 Vict. c. 34.

The provisions of the Towns Improvement Clauses Act, 1847, with respect to the following matters; that is to say,
(1) With respect to naming the streets and numbering the houses; and
(2) With respect to improving the line of the streets and removing obstructions: and
(3) With respect to ruinous or dangerous buildings; and
(4) With respect to precautions during the construction and repair of the sewers streets and houses, shall, for the purpose of regulating such matters in urban districts, be incorporated with this Act.

Notices for alterations under the sixty-ninth, seventieth, and seventy-first sections, directions under the seventy-third section, and orders under the seventy-fourth section of the said Towns Improvement Clauses Act, may, at the option of the urban authority, be served on owners instead of occupiers, or on owners as well as occupiers, and the cost of works done under any of these sections may, when notices have been so served on owners, be recovered from owners instead of occupiers; and when such cost is recovered from occupiers so much thereof may be deducted from the rent of the premises where the work is done as is allowed in the case of private improvement rates under this Act."

Reason for Adoption:
The adoption of this legislation will assist the Council in regularising the naming and numbering of streets and houses in its district.