West Glamorgan Act 1987

Section 8: “(1) A district council may allocate to the buildings in a street in their district such numbers as they think fit.

(2) Where a number has, or numbers have, been allocated to a building under this section or under section 64 of the Towns Improvement Clauses Act 1847, the district council may serve on the owner or occupier of the building a notice requiring him within such period, not less than three weeks, as may be specified in the notice to mark the building with that number, or those numbers, in such a way as to make the mark legible from the street.

(3) Where on any building there is an existing mark-

(a) which has ceased to be legible from the street; or

(b) the view of which from the street has become obstructed;

the district council may serve on the owner or occupier of the building a notice requiring him within such period, not less than three weeks, as may be specified in the notice -

(i) to make the mark legible from the street; or

(ii) to remove the obstruction to such extent as is practicable.

(4) A district council may alter the number or numbers allocated to a building, and where they do so subsections (2) and (3) above shall apply to the altered number or numbers.

(5) A district council may, instead of requiring a building to be marked with a number or numbers under this section, require it to be marked with such other means of identification as they may, at the request of the owner or occupier, allow; and subsections (2) and (3) above shall have effect accordingly.

(6) An owner or occupier of a building who without reasonable excuse fails to comply with a notice served on him under subsection (2) or (3) above shall be guilty of an offence and liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding level 2 on the standard scale.

(7) The following provisions of the Towns Improvement Clauses Act 1847 shall cease to have effect in the county:-

(a) in the words introducing sections 64 and 65, the words "and numbering the houses";

(b) in section 64 the words from "shall from time to time" to "think fit, and", and the words "number or" wherever occurring;

(c) section 65.”

Section 8 introduces a new legislative scheme for street numbering in West Glamorgan and dis-applies the main competing legislation on street numbering under the 1847 Act.

West Glamorgan itself has been abolished – Swansea City Council does still refer to this Act