2015-07-21 Infrastructure and Services Committee Agenda

INFRASTRUCTURE & SERVICES COMMITTEE MEETING AGENDA                                                21 JULY 2015


4                        RESULTS OF CONSULTATION PROCESS, BLANFORDS COURT
DOCUMENT INFORM AT ION




Author                              Project Officer, Beth Potter
                                    Planning & Infrastructure Department

Index                               ECM/Street/Blanfords Court
                                    ECM/Subject/ Names Roads, Streets, Parks Structures

Attachments                         Nil


EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
Not applicable.

RECOMMENDATION
That Council note the report by the Project Officer to the Infrastructure & Services Committee
Meeting dated 21 July 2015 and resolve to retain the spelling of Blanfords Court.


REPORT
This report is to inform Council of the results of consultation undertaken regarding a proposed
name change of Blanfords Court to Blandford Court to address a mis-spelling of the family name.

Letters detailing the proposal were sent to the 18 affected property owners. Six property owners
contacted Council with feedback to the proposal and none were in favour of a name change.

Comments included:
                       Inconvenience to property owners to change address details on numerous documents such
                         as vehicle registration, wills etc;
                       Additional costs when selling the property if it has a different name from when it was
                         purchased;
                       Inconvenience and expense in informing overseas banks, pension funds, changes to
                         stationery;
                       Costs incurred in changing legal papers.
Given that a number of property-owners object to changing the name it is considered
unreasonable to place such an inconvenience on these owners to correct a mis-spelling.

Previous Council Consideration

Ordinary Meeting, 9 April, 2015, Item 7, Page 4
That Council note the report by the Heritage Librarian to the Infrastructure & Services Committee
Meeting dated 31 March 2015 and agree to:
A.                       Recognise the Fenwick family for their contributions and longstanding connection to the
                         Cooroy district and, more specifically, the Cooroy Mill Site by way of a placenaming;
B.                       Adopt Fenwick Park as the name for the park on Straker Drive Cooroy (in the Greenwood
                         Grove estate between Stage 1 and Stage 3 of the development); and
C.                       Undertake a consultation process to address the mis-spelling of Blanfords Court
                         (Greenwood Grove Estate Cooroy) to Blandford Court.

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