Valuation Office Agency property data
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Source:
Valuation Office Agency
Date of data:
5 November 2007
Data supplied:
June 2008
The data provided summarises the housing stock as at 5th November 2007 for all properties in the VOA database for the 40 local authorities in the East Midlands government region. The data provided is derived from analysis of property attribute data, maintained by the VOA in performance of statutory duties to support local taxation, including:
Type: House Detached, House Terraced, Flat, etc. For VOA purposes, a 'Maisonette' is defined as a flat on more than one floor. The type 'Other' reflects such properties as annexes, houseboats, motor homes and caravans. A 'cluster' describes a block of normally four properties back to back to form a square block. They are mainly post 1980 on modern estates and typically one bedroomed, although there are two bedroomed examples.
Age: This represents the original age of a building (rather than date of conversion, for converted properties). Age bands are: Pre 1900, 1900 – 1918, 1919 – 1929, 1930 – 1939, 1945 – 1954, 1955 - 1964, 1965 – 1972, 1973 – 1982, 1983 – 1992, 1993 – 1999, 2000 – 2008.
Rooms: For houses and bungalows this does not include hallways, corridors, cupboards, kitchens, utility rooms, bathrooms or dining areas within other rooms - essentially it represents bedrooms plus reception rooms. It includes as rooms all living rooms, separate dining rooms, studios, bedrooms and box rooms. The total number of bathrooms includes as bathrooms all en-suite facilities with at least three fitments but excludes all separate WCs.
Area: This is the total floor area of all floors measured externally excluding eaves overhang, open balconies, covered ways and external passages, unconverted loft areas, attached and integral garages, washhouses and fuel stores/coal bunkers, conservatories and porches and any extension of a temporary nature or of significantly inferior quality to the main dwelling.
Flats and Maisonettes are measured to Effective Floor Area (EFA), which is the useable area of the rooms within a dwelling measured to the internal face of the walls of those rooms. It excludes hallways, landings and passages; cupboards opening off excluded areas; columns, piers, chimney breasts etc.; and bathrooms/toilets/showers.
Lower Super Output Area and Ward boundaries were obtained from ONS datasets and properties were assigned using a digital mapping technique. Over 90% of the X and Y coordinates for the properties in East Midlands were deemed 'accurate' to unit postcode or better - the majority accurate to individual property level. 1225 properties could not be assigned.
At LSOA level counts of 1, 2, 3 and 4 have been suppressed - and left blank. Counts of '0' (zero) are shown in the table. Ward level maps suppress counts of 19 or less.
Data source: Valuation Office Agency © VOA 2008