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A SQUAREnamed after amulti-millionaires familyhassparkeda reviewof Pre-stonstreet names.

Bhailok Square, on the formerSharoeGreenHospitalsitein Ful- wood, wasnamedby property de- veloper Yousef Bhailok after herevamped the site around four years ago.

Even though it is on private land,the naming sparked enough concernfor thecitysCorporate ImprovementReviewPanelto demanda reviewof the citys street naming policy amidfears future developers could namepublic roadsafterthemselves.

There are also plans to stop livingpersonalities having roads namedafter them,as iscurrentlythecasewithchampion walker Tom Benson andPreston North End legend Sir TomFinney.

The panels chairman Coun Bill

Shannon said: Because BhailokSquare is not a public street, theresnoproblem with itbut therecouldbea problemif adeveloper names apub-licstreet after them.

Namingstreet names afterpeopleshouldbe anhonour.Thenameshavegotto beappropriate.

Coun Anthony Gornall, whois theauthorityslead memberfor environ-mentand regeneration,said hewantsthe council to have the final say onstreet naming which would mean

axing thecurrent rulethatthree-quar-tersof a streetsresidentscanhave thepower to change the name of theirroad.

TheConservative added:We dont wantto namestreetsafter a livingper-son. What if a person has a fall fromgrace, whichcanespeciallyhappeninpolitics?

Mr Bhailok, who has also namedBhailok Street near UCLan after hisfamily,said:I ama bitsurprised.

This (Bhailok Square) happenedthree or fouryears ago.

Thereare manyplaceswherepeo-

ple have provided names on theirland.

Wearevery proudof Preston wehave been here 50 years andwe haveourprivateland wherewe tryto showouraffection for Preston.

AidanTurner-Bishop,chairmanof Prestonand SouthRibbleCivicTrust,saidhe favouredstreet namesnamedafter personalities, arguing the prac-tice goes back to Victoriantimes.

He said: Its a celebration of localdistinctiveness.

Why not name the main street of the Tithebarn development Wallace

and Gromit Way? And lets have aCoun Anthony Gornall Street heisfroma noblefamily fromPreston.

TheVictorians weregoodat streetnames robust,sometimes quirkyandsentimental or patriotic. We are tootimidtoday.

InPreston, I likeColdBathStreet,SchleswigStreet,HolsteinStreetandJutland Street.

Today wecouldhave Basra Street,Helmand Streetor Baghdad Street.

Coun Gornallwilldiscuss hisideas with officers before taking them to ameeting of thepanelon Monday.

LANCASHIRESred rose logois to loseacolour ina bidto cutcostsat thecountycouncil.

Itis hopedthemove, which will wipeoutthe green rose stem leavingonly redandblack,will savethe authority around17,500-a-year.

The authoritys Conservative leaderCoun Geoff Driversaid thelogo hasalsobeen changedas it looked toomuch like

Laboursroselogo.Hesaid: Partof itis, inmy view,it wasdesigned to looklike theLabourred rosebutthereal issueisit wasnt the Tudorrose of Lancashire.

TheTudorrose is a much-loved andwell-knownsymbolof Lancashireand ispart of ourcountys heritage. Thenewlogoreintroducesthe countysroseandmixesit withanup-to-datelook.

Coun Driversaidthe newdesignwill bestandardisedon letterheadsmeaningprevi-ous customiseddepartmentspecific logoswill bescrapped.

Headded:Ihavemade itvery clear thatthiswillnotcostus more money.Thede-signwas donein-house andwill be muchcheapertoprintthan the oldlogowith itsthreecolours. Andwe willnot be chang-ingthingslike signs, uniformsand letterheads overnight onlywhenmaterialsneed replacing andhave to bechanged.

Local people tellus thatthey wantclearand regularcommunicationsfromus, and toknowwhoto ask forto get theservices they need. Thenew logois onestepin ourplansto improve the way wedeal with ourresidents.

Digitallogos,such as on thecouncilsthewebsite,werereplaced overthe week-endthoughprinted logos will onlybechangedwhenexisting stocks runout orneed updating.

ep.co.u Evening Post, Tuesday, August4, 2009

Go back in time to 1984 Dont missWednesdaysEvening Poster tro

by Chris Visserchris.visser@lep.co.uk

CHEAPER: CounGeoff Driver

County roseloses greenstem to savea little cash

NOW YOU SEE IT: Above the old logoNOW YOU DONT: Below Tudors back

B Y EC K

G ROM I T. . .

SOM E BOD Y WA N TS

TO NAM E A N E W

T I TH E BA R N S T R E E T

A F T E R US. . .

CATALYST: BhailokSquare in Fulwood

PICTURED: Left toright Couns BillShannon and Anthony Gornall; Yousef Bhailokand Aidan Turner-Bishop

Do you fancy a walk down WallaceWay?