Nearly two million French people will have to change their address within a month

From June 1, 1.8 million French people will have to take steps to change their address.

In France, today, around 20,000 municipalities still have at least one road that is not numbered. In the countryside, the name of certain hamlets often serves as the address for an entire group of dwellings. A situation that the government could not tolerate and which it judged to be unacceptable. good to take charge with a new law. Called 3DS (differentiation, decentralization, deconcentration and simplification) and voted on in February 2022, it requires ;name the "voices and places, including the private roads open to the public; traffic " and to number each of the buildings. Previously, this rule only concerned municipalities with more than 2000 inhabitants.

The objective is clear: to facilitate access for emergency services, network technicians or even delivery people in areas where there is a high risk of damage. they sometimes waste time. As stated earlier, the government website,   "many public and private services need to know the precise geolocation of addresses" . Some residents of the municipalities concerned also say they are attracted by the measure, which should avoid them the numerous problems that' ;they meet today. "We were not able to receive all our packages. The fact that the town hall changes the addresses I find çnot bad", for example declaredé a resident of Haux à BFMTV. Another resident of the town testified to this. an increase in tax due the absence of a precise address. 

The new numbering concerns 1.8 million French people, who will therefore, concretely, have to change their location. address. There is no question of moving or eviction here, it is the streets in which they live which will experience change. ;will have to fill out a national database of addresses in order to be able to geolocate each home. The names will be decided by the Municipal Council. They have the obligation to find a name and a number for the user. each before June 1st.

What does this imply for the French people concerned? If they do not have their word à say about the choice of the name of their road, their hamlet, or the number of their accommodation, they will be required to other obligations. They will have to, as when moving, change their address everywhere, particularly on their identity papers. You will also have to notify their employer to have the new address on the pay slips, but also the bank, EDF, telephone or data operators. #39;internet…

The assigned numbers may also be surprising. Some isolated houses could be numbered according to the distance in meters which separates them from the start of the track and therefore achieve figures well beyond that. of the hundred. Nevertheless, the plates will not be obligatory.

"In order to reduce the cost and time of implementation by municipalities of complete addressing of their territory, including in the most rural areas, the need to install number plates and tracks is left to their own devices. à the appreciation of the municipalities which are the most vulnerable to even to judge their necessity", clarifiedé the government.