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Council to crack down on Cracknuts Lane
Lewes District Council has attracted the attention of the Daily Mail with a proposed new street naming and numbering policy which, if agreed tomorrow, could see the end of "names which encourage defacing name plates", such as Cockshut Road, Cracknuts Lane and Juggs Road. Also for the chop are 'names capable of deliberate …
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Monday 5th January 2009 13:39 GMT Anonymous Coward
Attracted attention in which way?
Are the DM saying this is a "Good Thing", and supporting the council or are they saying its a "Bad thing"? Its important to know these things especially when the DM is involved because I'd hate to think I might be agreeing with them given their rabid obsession with the new "extreme" pornography act (won't someone please think of the children, please?) where they seem to make Hitler and Stalin seem scarily mainstream.
Frankly given the way the economy is going I'm amazed that Lewes District council are bothered with such a stupid little thing. I guess Minge Lane or Horney Old Road would be for the chop in their NuWorld town? I look forward to Gloucester County Council renaming Uckington (and yes there is space to the left of the U on the sign posts to add a single letter F)
Sad, Sad, Sad
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Monday 5th January 2009 13:40 GMT Tony
OMG
Time for the good Burghers of Lewes to burgher off, methinks.
I feel certain that their efforts to "improve" the town will be less than welcome, particularly if the roads are anything like the ones around here. I just wonder how much money the exercise will cost, even if it doesn't go ahead.
Perhaps we should have a "head exploding" icon?
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Monday 5th January 2009 14:14 GMT Ian Ferguson
Political correctness GOOORN MAAAD
I'm not sure why Rachel Powell blames political correctness - it seems to be a catch-all scapegoat nowadays. The council clearly state that it's to reduce defacement. It would be a case of political correctness if they did something like renaming 'Brown Street' to 'Interracial Street'.
On another topic entirely - for GOD'S SAKE, REGISTER, PLEEEEASE make use of a cookie with your bloody annoying 'Reg Reader Research' javascript popup. I've clicked the X innumerable times and filled it in with rubbish three times so far just to stop the fucking thing appearing in front of every story and comment box, but you don't appear to have any kind of cookie or session variable that says 'this person has filled in / clicked the X and doesn't want to be annoyed any more'.
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Monday 5th January 2009 14:33 GMT David Shepherd
Place name revisionism
Reminds me of the ongoing process in the US where there's an ongoing argument between african-americans and hispanics (no doubt fueled by a load of do-good white liberals!) as to whether names containing "negro" should be expunged from maps because they have racist backgrounds ... or whether the name predates slavery and comes from the spanish word for black and thus changing the name is an act of racism against hispanics.
Similarily while in California 10+ years ago I remember reading someone had persuaded the Calif DMV that "JAP" was an offensive reference to Japanese people and got them to cancel all car license plates that included "JAP" as a substring!
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Monday 5th January 2009 14:35 GMT Anonymous Coward
In defence...
I think a previous poster might have been closer to the main reason: if you have to keep cleaning or even replacing defaced signs, why not simply replace them with one that won't get defaced again?
Of course the cost to the people who might live or work in those places isn't a factor to the council...
I work with a guy called Rudi Cockx - I know this is about places rather than people, but even after all these months that's still too snigger-worthy for me to resist posting! :-D
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Monday 5th January 2009 14:35 GMT Jez Lawrence
Presumably the whole town is getting renamed?
I mean, the place is called 'lewes' which sounds awfully like another word for lavatory.
Its an admittedly terrible bad pune or play on words - but since they seem to actually be basiing the whole silly plan on the premise that bad puns are so dreadful we have to rename a bunch of streets, then I think they ought to rename the whole bloody place, lest it become known as 'toiletville'. Its certainly how I'm going to refer to the place from now on.
If you're going to start down a a silly path, at least have the balls to follow the path to its logical conclusion - or give it up as a bad job before you even start.
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Monday 5th January 2009 14:35 GMT Fluffykins
Boot, other foot
I did hear a tale - may be an Urban MythThat a council planning refusal for a residential development had neen overridden, but they managed to get the developer to loose interest when they pointed out that they had the responsibility for naming roads and that it may just be possible that a good number of street names they might come up with could abe a little off-putting for purchasers.
I'm off to my local pub:
The Cockwell Inn,
Tillit,
Herts
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Monday 5th January 2009 15:01 GMT Anonymous Coward
Re: Not the first time
"Bring back Gropecunt Lane!"
I have it on good authority from a mate of mine who's a keen local historian that what is now Grape Lane in York used to be Grope Lane, or some variation thereof, on account of what used to go on in ye olde times.
The nearby village of Long Marston has a street called "Butt Hedge" - never fails to raise a snigger or two.
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Monday 5th January 2009 15:01 GMT David
A Hucking nuisance
I live near a village in Kent called Hucking. Wonder what they would make of that, along with another nearby area called Pratt's Bottom? In my opinion, these quaint old names, that have probably been around for centuries, should survive and to hell with namby-pamby councils who seem to want to protect us against...................er...............what, exactly?
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Monday 5th January 2009 15:01 GMT Simon Wright
One of the best
http://www.panoramio.com/photo/9070134
I remember seeing this roadsign years ago while traveling through a village in Northamptonshire. I had to stop the car becuase i was laughing so much.
Thumbs down becuase I hope they never change the names of roads like these as they are part of our history.
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Monday 5th January 2009 15:02 GMT Simon Williams
Nothing like rude street names to get Reg commentators going
The name I liked (probably been expunged now) comes from somewhere in Derbyshire, I think -- Peniston Rise. I liked the way the second part of the name was included in the smut and have the obvious photo of friends standing in front of the 'ton'.
Alien, since s/he/it doesn't seem to get much of an airing.
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Monday 5th January 2009 16:01 GMT DutchOven
Close...
On my street there is a small lane called "Pilrig House Close". It only has two buildings on it...
I've only once seen the sign without graffitti. The council replaced the sign and the vandal replaced their part the next day.
"Pilrig House ^is very Close". Never failed to make me smile.
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Monday 5th January 2009 16:01 GMT Anonymous Coward
Cockshut
I live on Cockshut Lane, not in Lewes but up in the Midlands - the road's been called that for well over a century and the name originally meant "a type of net used to catch woodcock". How stupid that Lewes are wanting to change the name just because of a few idiot teenagers! Grow up Lewes council!!!
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