AddressBase Premium
Here you will find all documentation for the AddressBase Premium product.
AddressBase Premium provides the most detailed view of an address and its lifecycle for England, Wales and Scotland. It has approximately 40 million addresses as it records an address from creation through to retirement. All address records are provided with a Unique Property Reference Number (UPRN).
There are over 100 million cross references which include references to VOA data and products such as OS MasterMap Topography Layer and OS MasterMap Highways Network are also included.
The product contains Local Authority, Ordnance Survey and Royal Mail addresses. This includes alternative addresses for current records where available, indicating variations on the official addresses and / or addresses in different languages (Welsh or Gaelic); as well as including provisional addresses (proposed planning developments), and historic information (demolished properties) where available. Other addresses known as Objects Without a Postal Address (OWPAs) are also included in AddressBase Premium, these include places of worship, community centres and utilities.
Addresses throughout the property lifecycle
The AddressBase Premium dataset contains Local Authority, Ordnance Survey and Royal Mail addresses, each uniquely referenced by a UPRN (Unique Property Reference Number).
Spot data patterns
Property level coordinates within AddressBase Premium allow you to conduct analysis at the level of individual addresses and spot patterns hidden in your own data.
Shape your operations
With UPRNs being assigned as soon as planning permission is granted, with AddressBase Premium you'll have all the information you need to shape the way you plan, operate and communicate with your audience.
Enable efficient processes
Each address is referenced by a UPRN, a persistent identifier for each address, allowing you to manage addresses and making your processes more efficient.
AddressBase Premium is well suited to a broad range of applications, including:
Utility demand planning
Energy / utility switching
Sales lead generation
Fraud prevention
Insurance underwriting
Delivery/logistics
Urban planning
Asset maintenance
Conveyancing
CRM system
Access: Download
Data theme: Address
Data structure: Vector – Points
Coverage: Great Britain
Scale: 1:1 250 to 1:10 000
Format: CSV, GeoPackage, GML 3.2.1
Ordering area: All of Great Britain or customisable area (5km² tiles or user-defined polygon)
Multi-residency information
Multi-residency is information included in AddressBase Premium. The information is provided by Local Authority custodians, who identify multiple occupancy addresses with a shared entrance. This is shown in the data as a structured Parent and Child hierarchy.
AddressBase Premium addresses
AddressBase Premium includes addresses throughout the property lifecycle, from proposed planning development through to demolished address. The product also includes alternative addresses for current records where available, indicating variations on the official addresses and / or addresses in different languages (Welsh or Gaelic).
Other addresses known as Objects Without a Postal Address (OWPAs) are also included in AddressBase Premium; these include places of worship, community centres and utilities.
Data from Royal Mail’s PAF
The database is a vital component of the single address gazetteer database and is in each of the AddressBase products where there has been a match confirming the address to the LLPG address.
How to get this product
Access to this product is free for PSGA (Public Sector Geospatial Agreement) Members. You can check if your organisation is a member of the PSGA on the OS website.
The AddressBase Premium product page on the OS website has advice on how to get the product for businesses, developers, OS Partners and PSGA Members (i.e. government and the public sector).
Alternatively, you can try out the full product by applying for a Data Exploration license.
Sample data
Download AddressBase Premium sample data
You can download sample data for the product for free from the OS Data Hub. The sample data are available in CSV and GML 3.2 formats and cover one area (Exeter).
Visualise AddressBase Premium sample data online
This product is available to try out free online using one of our three sets of sample data (Exeter, Newport and Inverness) through the OS MasterMap Product Viewer:
Other ways to access this data
AddressBase Premium data is available from our OS Places API and OS Match & Cleanse API, providing up-to-date information relating to an address or property from creation to retirement. Visit the OS API docs site to unlock programmatic access to rich geospatial data and integrate OS data and services into your applications
Access to UK address data is also available through the OS NGD Address Theme, providing data that is interoperable with other OS NGD themes, up to daily currency, and a data schema designed to be simple to use and interrogate. Users may find OS NGD Address data more accessible and easier to use with databases and GIS software. Visit the OS NGD docs site to discover how to access the OS NGD and learn what's available to users.
What's next?
To access documentation and resources relating to this product, please refer to the following:
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