I notice that part of Gillett St N16 has been renamed to Bailey Place N16...
unfortunately, there is already a Batley Place N16, so there will be
numerous letters sent to the wrong address over the next 50 years.

In article ,
(John Rowland) wrote:

I notice that part of Gillett St N16 has been renamed to Bailey
Place N16... unfortunately, there is already a Batley Place N16, so
there will be numerous letters sent to the wrong address over the
next 50 years.

Some minor official in the Borough Council. The local one in Cambridge
sometimes drives me to distraction with his perversity.

--
Colin Rosenstiel

"Colin Rosenstiel" wrote
John Rowland wrote:

I notice that part of Gillett St N16 has been renamed to Bailey
Place N16... unfortunately, there is already a Batley Place N16, so
there will be numerous letters sent to the wrong address over the
next 50 years.

Some minor official in the Borough Council. The local one in Cambridge
sometimes drives me to distraction with his perversity.

In principle, every decision of a Council (unless the relevant legislation
specifies otherwise) has to be taken by "the Council". For practical
reasons, almost all Councils have a Delegation Scheme, formally delegating
responsibilities to Committees, Chief Officers, and ultimately perhaps to
minor officials. If a minor official is driving an elected member to
distraction with his perversity and the member is unable to stop this
happening, then there is something wrong with the Council's Delegation
Scheme. I am surprised that the members of any Council have allowed street
naming to be delegated as far down the organisation as a minor official.
Some things, of course cannot be delegated and have by law to be determined
by "the Council" e.g. setting the Council Tax.

[I write as a former Head of Service at a District Council.]

On Aug 19, 2:00*pm, (Colin Rosenstiel) wrote:
In article ,

(John Rowland) wrote:
I notice that part of Gillett St N16 has been renamed to Bailey
Place N16... unfortunately, there is already a Batley Place N16, so
there will be numerous letters sent to the wrong address over the
next 50 years.

Some minor official in the Borough Council. The local one in Cambridge
sometimes drives me to distraction with his perversity.

--
Colin Rosenstiel

At least some have a sense of humour - there's a road by Sheffield
Airport called Letsby Avenue. Appropriately enough when it was built
the only building on it was a police station.
~cj

wrote

Some minor official in the Borough Council. The local one in
Cambridge
sometimes drives me to distraction with his perversity.

At least some have a sense of humour - there's a road by Sheffield
Airport called Letsby Avenue. Appropriately enough when it was built
the only building on it was a police station.

You have been bitten by a Urban Legend I think

Postcode of "police station" and Google/Multimap link please.

--
Mike D

Michael R N Dolbear wrote:
wrote

Some minor official in the Borough Council. The local one in
Cambridge sometimes drives me to distraction with his perversity.

At least some have a sense of humour - there's a road by Sheffield
Airport called Letsby Avenue. Appropriately enough when it was built
the only building on it was a police station.

You have been bitten by a Urban Legend I think

Postcode of "police station" and Google/Multimap link please.

Streetmap claims that there is no "Letsby Avenue" anywhere in Britain.
--
Richard J.
(to email me, swap 'uk' and 'yon' in address)

On Tue, 19 Aug 2008 23:45:55 GMT, "Richard J."
wrote:

Michael R N Dolbear wrote:
At least some have a sense of humour - there's a road by Sheffield
Airport called Letsby Avenue. Appropriately enough when it was built
the only building on it was a police station.

You have been bitten by a Urban Legend I think

Streetmap claims that there is no "Letsby Avenue" anywhere in Britain.

http://forums.bit-tech.net/showthread.php?t=104468

The papers did cover the story as a need to name an unnamed road for
emergency purposes only, and as the road had a police station Letsby
Ave came into being. However it appears that the name is genuine but
the cause was a spoof letter with a plod heading.

Now check your satnavs for Butt Hole Road...
--
Old anti-spam address cmylod at despammed dot com appears broke
So back to cmylod at bigfoot dot com

On Tue, Aug 19, 2008 at 11:45:55PM +0000, Richard J. wrote:

Streetmap claims that there is no "Letsby Avenue" anywhere in Britain.

Google maps disagrees.

However, the airport in question has now closed, so maybe it's been dug
up and turned into a business "park" already, and google is out of date.

--
David Cantrell | A machine for turning tea into grumpiness

Suffer the little children to come unto me, as
their buying habits are most easily influenced.
-- Marketroid Jesus

Michael R N Dolbear wrote:
wrote

Some minor official in the Borough Council. The local one in
Cambridge sometimes drives me to distraction with his perversity.

At least some have a sense of humour - there's a road by Sheffield
Airport called Letsby Avenue. Appropriately enough when it was built
the only building on it was a police station.

You have been bitten by a Urban Legend I think

Postcode of "police station"

LOLOLO999.

"Michael R N Dolbear" wrote in message
news:01c90241$b67f5de0$LocalHost@default...

wrote

Some minor official in the Borough Council. The local one in
Cambridge
sometimes drives me to distraction with his perversity.

At least some have a sense of humour - there's a road by Sheffield
Airport called Letsby Avenue. Appropriately enough when it was built
the only building on it was a police station.

You have been bitten by a Urban Legend I think

Postcode of "police station" and Google/Multimap link please.

http://www.multimap.com/maps/?qs=let...countryCode=GB

Peter Smyth