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An Evanston family is frustrated that Gawler Council has changed its street number without warning.<\/p>\n
A northern suburbs family is being forced to endure the arduous process of changing their address \u2013 despite never having moved house.<\/p>\n
Gawler Council wrote to Evanston resident Bev earlier this month, advising that her street number would be changed from 52a to 50a, which she believed was to accommodate a subdivision occurring next door.<\/p>\n
The change was immediate, Bev said, with the council letter that informed her of the alteration even being addressed to her new street number.<\/p>\n
No consultation over the change occurred, said Bev, who is now forced to change the contact details held by hundreds of organisations, including her employer, banks, utility providers, health specialists, those responsible for issuing driver\u2019s licences and passports, subscription services and even the tax office and Australian Electoral Commission.<\/p>\n
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Who wouldn\u2019t be frustrated at the thought of having to change their address on every legal document \u2026<\/p>\n
Two properties are affected by the street number change.<\/p>\n
Bev said 52a was the number given to her house when it was built 12 years ago.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe whole thing just stinks,\u2019\u2019 said Bev, who wished not to share her surname.<\/p>\n
\u201cA phone call (consultation prior to the change) would have been nice but there was nothing.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt was all a done-deal. <\/p>\n
When I asked (the council) when the decision was made (to change the street number), they said the decision was made on the same day (that the notification) was sent.\u2019\u2019<\/p>\n
Property records show that four new lots on the block next to Bev\u2019s home are all under offer. But given no housing had yet been built on the blocks, Bev said it would make more sense for her to retain her street number, with different numbers allocated to the new allotments.<\/p>\n
MORE NEWS \u201cI work full-time and it\u2019s going to take a helluva lot of time to sit and do (change addresses on) everything,\u2019\u2019 said Bev, who must change the contact details for herself, her husband and her son.<\/p>\n \u201cThere\u2019s three of us living here and hubby\u2019s had two strokes \u2013 he\u2019s OK but \u2026 (completing change of address details) would wear him out.\u2019\u2019<\/p>\n According to Australia Post, it costs $192.50 for a year-long mail redirection service.<\/p>\n After media inquiries, Gawler Council said it would foot the bill for the redirection and had also notified utility companies about the street numbering change.<\/p>\n \u201cBut it\u2019s not just the time and cost. There\u2019s other implications too,\u2019\u2019 Bev said.<\/p>\n Gawler Council\u2019s chief executive says the street number was changed because it did not comply with Australian address standards \u2013 an error that was only identified during the subdivision of the adjoining property.<\/p>\n \u201cA lot of places say (ask, for identity verification purposes), \u2018How long have you lived at your current address?\u2019<\/p>\n \u201cWhat are we supposed to say to that? That we have actually changed address but we\u2019re still living in the same place?<\/p>\n \u201cIt\u2019s ridiculous.\u2019\u2019<\/p>\n Gawler Council chief executive officer Chris Cowley said the council was not obliged to consult residents because there had been no change to the numbering system used to determine property addresses.<\/p>\n Rather, the street number was changed because it did not comply with Australian address standards \u2013 an error that was only identified during the subdivision of the adjoining property, Mr Cowley said.<\/p>\n \u201cFrom time to time, addressing needs to be corrected to ensure for logically sequential street numbers to be allocated if it has been deemed that addressing is confusing, could result in misdirected mail or difficulty for emergency services in locating properties,\u2019\u2019 he said.<\/p>\n Mr Cowley said had the council allowed Bev to keep her previous street number, it would have required a renumbering \u201cfurther down the street\u2019\u2019, affecting 19 other properties.<\/p>\n \u2013 Lauren Ahwan<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An Evanston family is frustrated that Gawler Council has changed its street number without warning. A northern suburbs…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":753285,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[64,63,99],"class_list":["post-753284","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/753284","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=753284"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/753284\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/753285"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=753284"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=753284"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=753284"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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