NOTICE OF SUPPLY

The three Excel workbooks contain lists of properties with (or eligible to be allocated) Council Tax bands in the Manchester City Council area, released by Manchester City Council following access to information and re-use requests submitted by Owen Boswarva. Please see the correspondence with the data file for the full background.

The Property address and band_20250910.xlsx file was disclosed on 10/09/2025 and contains addresses, postcodes, and Council Tax bands without local property references or UPRNs (Unique Property Reference Numbers).

The FOI17432.xlsx file was disclosed on 24/10/2025 (following an internal review of the Council's response) and contains addresses, postcodes, and local property references without Council Tax bands or UPRNs.

The MCC UPRN FOI17432.xlsx file was disclosed on 24/11/2025 (following further correspondence) and contains two lists (the second of which starts on row 265,528) both of which contain addresses, local property references, and UPRNs without Council Tax bands.

It is possible to match the records on all of the lists without the use of information from other sources, but please note that the lists have been extracted from Council systems at two or more points in time. This means a combined list of the addresses will include a small percentage of properties (likely those added recently) that do not have Council Tax bands.

The contents of the three files are as disclosed by the Council, but a small amount of metadata has been redacted to remove the names of Council staff.


DATA QUALITY

None of the data files is a complete list of addresses in the Manchester City Council area, as each contains only information related to properties with (or eligible to be allocated) Council Tax bands i.e. domestic properties.


LICENSING

The Council has confirmed in the correspondence that the disclosed information in the three files may be re-used "without any restrictions. There are no limitations or conditions attached to its use, including for commercial purposes."

That statement of permission is more permissive than the terms of the Open Government Licence v3.0. However, for purposes of distribution it may be simpler to treat the information as re-usable under the terms of the OGL, in order to ensure attribution of the Council's rights. The terms of the OGL can be found here: https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/

The default attribution statement in the OGL is "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0." or you may wish to use "Contains public sector information obtained from Manchester City Council and licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0."


If you have any questions about this data release or the corrrespondence, please contact Owen Boswarva at owen.boswarva@gmail.com


Version 1.0, November 2025

