W-Day is Coming to WoolLard! (The day when all properties within the village get a new address)

W-Day will be coming to the village of Woollard later this summer. This is the day when all properties within the village get a new address.

For some time, people in Woollard have had trouble being found by delivery lorries or emergency services. Few of the postal addresses have a street name, and most have the village name of Pensford included, which is misleading. Furthermore, the village straddles two parishes - Publow and Compton Dando, which lead to it being split in two in the Council’s own Local Land & Property Gazetteer.

Under the 1925 Public Health Act, addressing is the responsibility of the local Council, not Royal Mail. The Council’s Street Naming and Numbering Officer, Lyn Parfitt, has been working with Publow and Compton Dando Parish Councils to get local feedback about the best solution, and to ensure that the new street names command local support.

The new addresses for all properties in Woollard will now include the street name. New street nameplates will also be installed to make this clear to visitors arriving in the village.

Pensford will be dropped from the addresses, so that Woollard is a village in its own right. When consultation is complete, a day will be fixed for the new addresses to be adopted – Woollard Day or W-Day. Everyone affected will receive formal notification of their new address in advance of W-Day, and emergency services will also be informed.

The Council’s GIS team have been working behind the scenes to make everyone in Bath & North East Somerset aware of the change so that all departments will update their address databases. This is to ensure that there is no confusion between the old and new addresses.

How the addresses in Woollard will change:

Old Format
House name or number House name or number

Woollard

Pensford

Bristol Postcode

New Format
House name or number House name or number

Street name

Woollard

Bristol Postcode