Your address

Council will issue an urban address for most properties that are located with in the towns and villages in the Shire, including Blackville, Caroona, Currabubula, Pine Ridge, Premer, Quirindi, Wallabadah, Werris Creek, Willow Tree.

Urban addressing must be assigned by Council in accordance with the Australian / New Zealand Rural and Urban Addressing Standard (AS4819)/

This can be a complicated process and many things need to be taken into consideration, so please do not allocate your own number.  This can cause many complications for postal and emergency services. 

Most properties within the urban areas of our towns and villages already have an assigned urban address.  Council will generally issue an urban address at subdivision stage for new properties to ensure that the addressing information is available to be used at the earliest opportunity. 

Contact Council's Infrastructure and Environmental Services team on (02) 6746 1755 to clarify your urban address or request one to be issued for your property.  Alternately, email your request to council@liverpoolplains.nsw.gov.au. 

Urban addresses should be displayed in the following manner to ensure that your property is easily identifiable to emergency, postal and other service providers in the community:

• In a clearly legible and suitably sized manner on the mail box, and/or
• In a clearly legible and suitably sized manner on the front facade of the dwelling
• Clear of any shrubs, bushes or plants that may hide the address number. 

Address changes are avoided by Council unless the numbers being used are in conflict with another address and are not in accordance with the Australian / New Zealand Rural and Urban Addressing Standard (AS4819).

It is paramount that road numbers meet the standard to minimise any delays, especially in an emergency situation.

Where Council believes that it will be necessary to change an urban address, the property owner will be consulted in relation to the change before the change is made. 

Rural addresses are issued for properties that are located outside the town and village limits.  Rural addresses are normally issued for properties in rural or agricultural areas, however some properties on the outskirts of urban areas may also require a rural address. 

Like Urban addressing, rural addressing must be assigned by Council in accordance with the Australian / New Zealand Rural and Urban Addressing Standard (AS4819).

This can be a complicated process and many things need to be taken into consideration, so please do not allocate your own number.  This can cause many complications for postal and emergency services. 

Rural addressing numbers are based on a distance from the starting point - usually a road intersection - with odd numbers on the left and even numbers on the right. This system is demonstrated in the diagram below. 

Liverpool Plains Council has already allocated rural addresses to most areas of the Liverpool Plains Shire.  Contact Council's Infrastructure and Environmental Services team on (02) 6746 1755 to clarify if your property has already been issued with a rural address.  Alternatively, email your request to council@liverpoolplains.nsw.gov.au.

If a rural address has not already been allocated for your property, then it will be necessary for you to apply to Council to have one allocated.  You will need to fill an application form and pay a small fee.  This fee contributes to the cost of Council physically driving to your property, measuring the distance from the starting point of your property gateway and allocating the rural address number.  You will also receive a reflective rural addressing plate containing numbers that is suitable to be erected at your property gateway. 

Rural addresses should be displayed in the following manner to ensure that your property is easily identifiable to emergency, postal and other service providers in the community:

• On the gate to the entrance of your property, or
• On the fence beside the main entrance to your property, or
• On the mailbox at the entrance of your property, or
• A combination of the above. 

The rural address numbers should also be placed in a location that is clear of any shrubs, bushes or plants that may hide the address number. 

The alternate or additional numbering may be required and you should contact Council's Infrastructure and Environmental Services team on (02) 6746 1755 for further information. 

Council recommends that you use your allocated rural address.  For example: