UCL NAMES

The key criteria for Urban Centre and Locality (UCL) names are that they be:

· meaningful
· have a maximum of 40 characters
· unique, i.e. not shared by any other UCL in Australia.

Where an UCL represents a single dominant centre then it is named for that centre:

· Melbourne
· Sydney
· Townsville

Where an UCL represents a combination of two centres of comparable importance, it is named for both centres separated by a hyphen, the largest taking precedence:

· Shepparton - Mooroopna
· Bushfield - Woodford (L)
· Berrara - Cudmirrah (L)

Where an UCL crosses a State/Territory (S/T) border, the component parts are identified in brackets:

· Gold Coast - Tweed Heads (Gold Coast Part)
· Gold Coast - Tweed Heads (Tweed Heads Part)
· Canberra - Queanbeyan (Canberra Part)
· Canberra - Queanbeyan (Queanbeyan Part)

Where an UCL represents a region with a widely recognised name, then that name is used:

· Sunshine Coast
· Central Coast

Urban Centre names will be unique within Australia. If there are two Urban Centres with the same name, the standard State/Territory abbreviation will be added in brackets:

· Maitland (SA)
· Maitland (NSW)
· Mount Barker (SA)
· Mount Barker (WA)
· Richmond (L) (Tas.)
· Richmond (L) (Qld)

Localities have (L) appended to their names to indicate they are Localities and not Urban Centres:

· Agnes Bank (L)
· Avoca (L)
· Mount Burr (L)

In some cases Gazetted Localities and Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander community names have been used to obtain UCL names.