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Villages: municipalities obliged to name all their streets
Villages: municipalities obliged to name all their streets – (France 2)
A law requires municipalities to name all their streets and number all their buildings. In Dordogne, a village which brings together three hamlets is making change.
In Cubjac-Auvézère-Val d’Ans (Dordogne), a commune born from the merger of three hamlets, three town centers without street names came together. A real headache for the inhabitants of this village of 1,000 people. “There is no address. (…) Obviously, the emergency services, the postal workers… it doesn’t help their work,” explains a local resident. But a law now makes it obligatory for municipalities to name all streets and number all buildings.
“It’s a huge change”
800 street signs and 1,100 house numbers should therefore soon be installed in Cubjac. “It’s a huge change”, confides Élodie Choury, mayor (SE) of Cubjac-Auvézère-Val d’Ans. The mayor explains that the street names were chosen with the aim of sticking with “the identity of the village”.
