Street Sign Maintenance Programme

The District Council is responsible for provision and maintenance of street name plates across North Norfolk.

A year-long, £100,000 programme to catch up with the backlog and replace 1,000 street nameplate signs across North Norfolk is under way. The project is due to finish by the end of the financial year, in March 2010. It is being carried out in partnership with Norfolk County Council, which has contributed £5,000 towards the cost of new signs, because NNDC aims to include ‘no through road’ symbols on appropriate nameplates, meaning separate signposts are not needed and some signage clutter can be removed from our streets.

Surveys have been carried out in towns and parishes across the District.

Some 350 new and replacement signs have been installed in Fakenham, North Walsham, Cromer, Sheringham, Holt, Stalham and Wells-next-the-Sea.

Signs identified as a priority are currently being installed on a rolling programme in the rural parishes.

Where finances permit, additional signage noted during the survey (but not classed as top priority) will be installed in the period April to June 2010.

Through these surveys, North Norfolk District Council is also building an inventory of street nameplates for the first time.

Reports of damaged or missing street nameplates will keep the inventory current, and will continue to be useful for ongoing maintenance work once the project is complete.

Anyone wanting to report a problem with a nameplate sign is asked to email streetsign.maintenance@north-norfolk.gov.uk

Other road signs including locality signs, no through road signs and traffic signs are the responsibility of Norfolk County Council Highways Department. Please contact them direct.