[Talk-GB] Naming of sewage treatment works and other such infrastructure

[Rob Nickerson]

>From my experience in the gas and electricity industry I think you're
overthinking it. The sites and industry at large has grown organically and
there is no such thing as a definitive name. Internally they adopt names
more because humans like to call things by a name. Although you may find
differences across teams and departments even in the core name, before we
even get on to suffixes! And I highly expect what is on any sign in terms
of suffixes is just coincidence and depends on who ordered it and when!

"Naming" is especially bad for small embedded power stations which seem to
change name frequently, especially in the early years.

Written publications and planning applications are not a good place to look
for "definitive name". For a brand new site how it's initially referred to
and how it's finally referred to can differ significantly.

In summary, any "name" is more akin to what we use the description tag for.
I agree with Russ that it's not that useful to just name it the same as the
village, and like with road signs I think we should expand out any suffixes
(e.g. STW, SS, etc).

Hope this helps.

Thanks
Rob
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