Street naming and numbering

The Street Naming and Numbering service is required if:

• You have built a new property
• You have converted a property like a barn into a dwelling, or a single property into flats.
• You wish to rename your property
• You wish to add a name to an existing numbered property
• You have built a new development of more than one dwelling. This may include naming any roads within the development
• You wish to amend layout of new developments that have already gone through the naming & numbering process.
• Residents wish to rename and existing street
• You require confirmation of an address

It is strongly advised that any Street Naming and Numbering applications made for new properties are submitted as early as possible in the development process. This will prevent any delay in obtaining services for the properties.

To ensure that the process progresses as efficiently as possible, you will need to provide the following information:

1. Completed, signed and dated application form
2. Location plan
3. Correct fee as stated in the scale of charges, no details will be confirmed until the fee has been received

Download an editable application form below and submit your completed application to: snn@carmarthenshire.gov.uk

Payment must be submitted with your application otherwise it will not be validated and no work will be undertaken on processing or assessing your application. You will need to provide the following details:

• Type of application e.g. street naming & numbering application.
• Application reference number, or name and application location if you do not have a reference number yet.
• The correct application fee as stated in the scale of charges

By Telephone

We accept card payment. If you’d like to speak to a member of staff in the cashier's team - call 01267 228686 between 9 - 5.

By Post

Please make cheques payable to ‘Carmarthenshire County Council’ and post to: Planning Services, Civic Offices, Crescent Road, Llandeilo, SA19 6HW.

In Person

Payments can be made in person by cash, credit/debit card or by cheque. Details and opening times can be viewed for each location:

• Hwb Ammanford Customer Service Centre, 41 Quay Street, Ammanford, SA18 3BS 
• Cash desk at Carmarthen Customer Service Centre, 3 Spilman Street, Carmarthen, SA31 1LE
• Hwb Llanelli Customer Service Centre, 36 Stepney Street, Llanelli 

BACS Payment

Please email snn@carmarthenshire.gov.uk for further details.

When a new development has been approved, addresses are created by the Council as ‘provisional’ entities. The details of the proposed development are shared with Royal Mail who subsequently ‘hold and record’ the addresses on their ‘Not Yet Built’ address database. To avoid any issues of post being sent to non-existent properties the addresses are not activated until occupation or the properties are near completion and therefore are able to receive postal services.

As each property nears completion the developer will be required to notify the Street Naming and Numbering team and request that the address be activated for use. Upon notification confirmation will be issued to all internal services and external partners, including the emergency services.

Royal Mail will be notified to ensure that the appropriate records are moved from their ‘Not Yet Built’ database into the Postcode Address File (PAF) making it available for general use and referencing across the United Kingdom within 24-48 hours, although this addition/correction can take several months to filter through to end users of Postcode Address File data.

This will happen as external companies update their own databases with the latest Address Management Products over which Royal Mail have no jurisdiction.

• British Gas
• BT    
• Community/Town Council    
• Council Tax    
• Dyfed Powys Police Headquarters    
• Electoral Registration   
• Land Registry    
• Mid and West Wales Fire Authority   
• Ordnance Survey   
• Royal Mail    
• Welsh Ambulance Service
• NHS Trust (Central and West Region)    
• Welsh Water    
• Western Power Distribution