How To Petition The Change of a Street Name

macy9

Does anyone know how I go about petitioning to have the name of our street changed?

I know in Ballymun they were able to have a road changed to Glasnevin Avenue (even though its really not near Glasnevin.) Apparently the residents got together to do it.

Our situation: The name of the street is for example 'Old Crappy Road' when in fact its nowhere near the real 'Crappy Road' in 'Crappy Town.' Its actually in Nice Town :pac:.

A house on our road went up for sale at €750,000 and the EA went in an around about way to give the house a different adress to omit the actual road name because its so bad. Recently we went to sell our house and was told that even though we had 2 extra bedrooms to the house directly behind, ours was the same sale price because we had such an undesirable street name. Fair enough if we actually lived there but its just the name of the road.

Aside from the above, we constantly get the wrong mail, people turning up at our house thinking they are at 'Crappy Road' and some internet sites don't even recognise our address, thinking we must mean 'Crappy Road.'

Help.

Victor

There is a procedure though the local council to do it.

A referendum is held and I think four sevenths of the voters (as included in the register of electors, but add rate payers) are require to change the name.

I know its strange, but I can remember the procedure, but not the act.

Cookie_Monster

snobbery is alive and well

Victor

Cookie_Monster wrote: »

snobbery is alive and well

Not necessarily, Dublin has four Liffey Streets and each of Store Street, South Richmond Street and St. Margarets Road each have 3 ends.

Meanwhile Merrion Square is a rectangle, Parnell Square has only two and a half sides and Brighton Square is basically triangular, with five sides. Aylesbury can either be in Ballsbridge or Tallaght. Fonthill Metro / Luas station is proposed for 3km from Fonthill House. You travel on four six streets from Christchurch (one word) to Trinity.

http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&q=brighton+square,+dublin&sll=37.0625,-95.677068&sspn=25.981365,47.460937&ie=UTF8&hq=&hnear=Brighton+Square,+Dublin+6,+County+Dublin+City,+Ireland&ll=53.31564,-6.280135&spn=0.002384,0.005794&z=17

Oh yeah, Palmerstown doesn't exist.

Cookie_Monster

and every town in ireland has a Main St and Market St, so what.