AddressBase Islands February 2025 – Epoch 116

This release note provides information about the February 2025 (Epoch 116) release of the AddressBase Islands products. These products were released to customers on 06 February 2025.

Known issues will now be displayed on the 'Product Known Data Issues' subpages under each product.

Record counts

Product	Full Supply Record Count	Change-Only Update Record Count
AddressBase Plus Islands	1,154,084	3,135
AddressBase Premium Islands	See rows below	See rows below
Street	48,727	179
Street Descriptor	48,727	55
BLPU	1,238,230	4,281
Classification	1,238,230	2,461
LPI	1,247,950	3,075
Organisation	38,827	250
Delivery Point Address	965,970	1,124
Application Cross Ref.	1,304,112	2,138
Successor	0	0

Changed records

If you receive a Change-Only Update (COU) supply for your AddressBase Islands product, you will receive Insert, Update and Delete records within the supplied file. The following tables detail the count of these records.

AddressBase Plus Islands

Change Type	Count
Inserts	1,315
Updates	1,539
Deletes	281

AddressBase Premium Islands

AddressBase Premium Islands Table	Inserts	Updates	Deletes
Street	52	126	1
Street Descriptor	52	2	1
BLPU	1,535	2,515	231
Classification	1,535	695	231
LPI	1,544	1,300	231
Organisation	55	109	86
Delivery Point Address	886	143	95
Application Cross Ref.	1,499	297	342
Successor	0	0	0

It's important that COUs are processed with Deletes first, then Inserts and Updates. This is to ensure that updates are applied in the correct order. Further guidance on this can be found in 'Working with COU data' in the AddressBase Getting Started Guide.

Source data currency

The following information relates to the currency of the source data used in the creation of Epoch 116:

Data Source	Date
Pointer (Northern Ireland)	02 January 2025
DigiMap (Channel Islands)	02 January 2025
Isle of Man	02 January 2025
Royal Mail PAF	02 January 2025

Next release

The next release of AddressBase Islands products, Epoch 117, is scheduled for 20 March 2025.