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AddressBase Products January 2024 – Epoch 107
This release note provides information about the January 2024 (Epoch 107) release of the AddressBase products. These products were released to customers on 05 January 2024.
Record counts
OS Open UPRN
40 644 365
N/A
AddressBase
30 386 645
114 610
AddressBase Plus
37 929 351
524 249
AddressBase Premium
See rows below
See rows below
Street
1 501 744
6 055
Street Descriptor
1 624 334
3 329
BLPU
40 644 365
275 951
Classification
44 520 722
134 122
LPI
45 743 832
216 160
Organisation
1 412 245
16 196
Delivery Point Address
30 490 558
55 388
Application Cross Ref.
197 269 942
627 070
Successor
0
0
These counts are based on a Managed Great Britain Set (MGBS). If you have ordered your national coverage via the online ordering system using a polygon outline, then your counts may differ.
Change-Only Updates are not available for the OS Open UPRN product.
Product supply comparison
There is a difference in product counts between taking a national Managed Great Britain Set (MGBS) and a national Area of Interest (AOI). This is because the two supplies use different selection criteria. The differences are shown in the following table, allowing for you to validate your data holdings once you have loaded the latest release of AddressBase data.
The national AOI refers to the pre-selection GB polygon from our download store. Therefore, if you have drawn your own AOI, the count will vary.
If you are unsure of your supply type, please check this with your OS Relationship Manager.
AddressBase
30 386 645
30 386 645
0
AddressBase Plus
37 929 351
37 929 332
19
AddressBase Premium
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See rows below
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Street
1 501 744
1 501 743
1
Street Descriptor
1 624 334
1 624 333
1
BLPU
40 644 365
40 644 342
22
Classification
44 520 722
44 520 699
23
LPI
45 743 832
45 743 808
24
Organisation
1 412 245
1 412 243
2
Delivery Point Address
30 490 558
30 490 558
0
Application Cross Ref.
197 269 942
197 269 919
23
Successor
0
0
0
Changed records
If you receive a Change-Only Update (COU) supply for your AddressBase product, you will receive Insert, Update and Delete records within the supplied file. The following tables detail the numbers of these records which can be expected in an MGBS supply, and also how many tiles are affected if you take your supply as Changed Chunks.
AddressBase
Inserts
37 526
Updates
68 614
Deletes
8 470
COU Populated Tile Count
5 275
AddressBase Plus
Inserts
54 062
Updates
458 759
Deletes
11 428
COU Populated Tile Count
7 261
AddressBase Premium
Street
2 426
3 610
19
Street Descriptor
2 636
674
19
BLPU
52 904
220 510
2 537
Classification
63 653
51 535
18 934
LPI
68 427
144 366
3 367
Organisation
6 628
4 466
5 102
Delivery Point Address
37 813
9 405
8 170
Application Cross Ref.
227 465
370 122
29 483
Source data currency
The following information relates to the currency of the source data used in the creation of Epoch 107:
Royal Mail PAF
30 November 2023
National Land and Property Gazetteer
30 November 2023
One Scotland Gazetteer
30 November 2023
VOA Non-Domestic Rates
27 November 2023
VOA Council Tax
27 November 2023
OS MasterMap Topography Layer
21 November 2023
OS MasterMap Highways Network
06 November 2023
Code-Point with Polygons
02 October 2023
Boundary-Line
03 October 2023
Data issues
AddressBase Plus issues
Affected output formats: CSV and GML
There are 7 416 Unique Property Reference Numbers (UPRNs) which reference a Parent UPRN that cannot be found in the product. This is because the Parent UPRN is either provisional or historic and is not matched to the Royal Mail Postcode Address File (PAF) or Valuation Office Agency (VOA) record, meaning that it is not included in the AddressBase Plus product as per the existing background logic rules.
There are 273 records with a sao_start_no or sao_text that have no Parent UPRN in the product. This is because the Parent UPRN is a historical record which is included as part of the logic for record inclusion in the AddressBase Plus products.
Improvements in Epoch 107
Valuation Office Agency matching
The match rates for Council Tax and Non-Domestic Rates for Epoch 107 are detailed as follows based on Valuation Office Agency (VOA) records up to 27 November 2023. The match rate is applicable to the AddressBase Premium product.
Council tax
26 995 187
99.92
Non-domestic rates
2 129 321
96.33
Tertiary classifications
Work is being undertaken to improve the classifications of records within the AddressBase products. This work has resulted in 56 205 more tertiary classifications present in Epoch 107 compared to Epoch 106. Indeed, 88.79% of these tertiary classification improvements are against residential codes.
PAF matching
The following graph shows the number of Postcode Address File (PAF) matched records in AddressBase by epoch:
New Tertiary and Quaternary Classification Codes
We have introduced new tertiary and quaternary classification codes to the AddressBase classification scheme. The new tertiary classification for pharmacies and a number of additional quaternary classifications provides a more granular view for pubs, supermarkets, convenience stores and electric vehicle charging points. This makes these classes easier to filter in AddressBase.
We have also introduced additional classifications for bridges within AddressBase to represent the type of feature the bridge spans over. This helps to facilitate effective decision making for customers who use bridge features.
C
M
06
Pharmacy
–
–
C
R
06
–
BA
Bar
C
R
06
–
PH
Public House
C
R
06
–
NC
Nightclub
C
R
08
–
SM
Supermarket
C
R
08
–
CS
Convenience Store
C
R
09
–
BS
Betting Shop
C
R
09
–
OL
Off-licence
C
R
02
–
EV
Electric Car Charging Station
C
T
11
–
CA
Road Bridge Over Canal
C
T
11
–
MU
Road Bridge Over Multiple
C
T
11
–
NN
Road Bridge Over No Network
C
T
11
–
PA
Road Bridge Over Path
C
T
11
–
RA
Road Bridge Over Railway
C
T
11
–
RO
Road Bridge Over Road
C
T
11
–
WA
Road Bridge Over Water
This change to the classification schema was implemented in Epoch 100, which was published on 30 March 2023. From this date, these new tertiary and quaternary classification codes have been included in AddressBase products.
Local Authority Changes
In our addressing products, we provide information detailing which local authority an address is within. From 01 April 2023, several local authorities reorganised to form new authorities. This means that the local authority code for all addresses within the affected authorities changed from the old authority to the new one, resulting in approximately 1.3 million records being updated. These changes will be seen in product from Epoch 101 onwards. The table below maps the changes:
Allerdale – 905
Cumberland – 940
Carlisle – 915
Cumberland – 940
Copeland – 920
Cumberland – 940
Barrow-in-Furness – 910
Westmorland and Furness – 935
Eden – 925
Westmorland and Furness – 935
South Lakeland – 930
Westmorland and Furness – 935
Scarborough – 2730
North Yorkshire – 2745
Ryedale – 2725
North Yorkshire – 2745
Selby – 2735
North Yorkshire – 2745
Hambleton – 2710
North Yorkshire – 2745
Richmondshire – 2720
North Yorkshire – 2745
Harrogate – 2715
North Yorkshire – 2745
Craven – 2705
North Yorkshire – 2745
Mendip – 3305
Somerset – 3300
Sedgemoor – 3310
Somerset – 3300
Somerset West and Taunton – 3330
Somerset – 3300
South Somerset – 3325
Somerset – 3300
Next release
The next release of AddressBase products, Epoch 108, is scheduled for Thursday 22 February 2024.
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