The Council has the right under various Acts of parliament to set these rules. I didn’t know this until a resident who wanted to add a name to their property contacted me to as for help. Now some of the rules make sense to me. no-one wants an offensive name but why do you have to have a suffix. What is wrong with just a single word for a name?

I’m trying to find out what the actual Acts that give Barnet these powers say. But they are not available online as the newest of them the LONDON GOVERNMENT ACT 1985 – SCHEDULE 8 PARAGRAPH 14 (1) is three years older than the online records which only start in 1988.

If Barnet are adding to the Act ot have any leeway then I want to see if we can modify the rules to allow abit more leeway.