Latitude: 50.3861 / 50°23'10"N
Longitude: -4.1266 / 4°7'35"W
OS Eastings: 248913
OS Northings: 56189
OS Grid: SX489561
Mapcode National: GBR RDW.MQ
Mapcode Global: FRA 2870.XVB
Plus Code: 9C2Q9VPF+F8
Maidenhead Locator System: IO70wj42
What Three Birds: cowbird.waxwing.phoebe
Marker point and cooordinate accuracy: Within the building of the matched address closest to the postcode mean.
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PL3 5BD is a large user postcode in Compton, Plymouth. It was first introduced in January 1980.
'Large User' postcodes are allocated to organisations which receive large amounts of post. Unlike standard geographic postcodes, which cover up to 80 addresses, a large user postcode is unique to a single address.
To the best of our knowledge, the current address of this postcode is:
British Broadcasting Corporation, Seymour Road, Plymouth PL3 5BD.
The geographic coordinates assigned to a large user postcode may not necessarily be the actual coordinates of the location to which mail is delivered. If the address is a PO Box, then the coordinates will usually be the Royal Mail sorting office which handles mail for that postcode. In other cases, the coordinates of the postcode may be the headquarters, or registered office, of an organisation rather than the building which receives mail.
The average commercial rateable value is £141,000. The most common recorded business type is Television Studios.
Plymouth is a city, which had a population of 234,982 in the 2011 census.
PL3 5BD is in the Plymouth travel to work area. NHS services are provided by the Plymouth Teaching Primary Care Trust.
PL3 5BD is approximately 88m (289ft) above sea level.
Office of National Statistics Output Area Classification for the area containing PL3 5BD
6a4: Suburbanites - Suburban Achievers - Ageing in Suburbia
Office of National Statistics Rural/Urban classification for PL3 5BD
England C1: a town or city, surrounded by populated countryside
Healthy Living Index
7/10 (High)
Neighbourhood Retail Diversity Index
5/10 (Moderate)
Area Retail Diversity Index
2/10 (Very low)
Supermarkets near PL3 5BD include Aldi, Asda, Co-Operative Food, Farmfoods, Iceland, Lidl, M&S Simply Food, Morrisons, Sainsbury's and Tesco. (Source: OpenStreetMap)
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Residents of PL3 5BD are represented at different levels of local, regional and national government by elected representatives. Where known, these are shown here.
This data is updated approximately monthly, and may not necessarily take account of the results of any elections or by-elections held recently.
Unitary Authority
Plymouth City Council
Ward
Compton
Councillors
Dylan Tippetts (Labour)
Angela Penrose (Labour)
Richard Ball (Conservative)
Andrea Johnson (Conservative)
Nick Kelly (Conservative)
Matt Smith (Labour)
United Kingdom Parliament
Constituency
Plymouth, Sutton and Devonport
MP
Luke Pollard (Labour (Co-op))
Ofcom publishes annual statistics for Broadband availability. This is the most recent data for PL3 5BD.
Broadband statistics for commercial properties are less reliable than for domestic properties, as businesses are more likely to have other forms of Internet access that are not classified as 'Broadband'.
The most recent Ofsted rankings for schools near PL3 5BD.
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