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[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

Sorry, only just seen this. I don't work in this sector I am afraid. Some things that might help you:

There is no legal definition of a 'valid' address in the UK- If you post it then the Post Office will try to deliver it. If they can work it out from what is written, and they will try very hard, then that's 'an address'. This has been established in law.
There is advice on how you should write an address . This is how e.g. a bank or utility will address mail, but see above. TBH at this point you could probably put a What3Words on the envelope and it could work.
For most addresses in the UK you will want to correlate the postcode with the street address, as shown here. A street address is a number (or house name, or both) and a street name on one line, e.g. '29 Acacia Road'. Street address + Postcode is how people target e.g. a satnav to an address. A postcode generally relates to a group of addresses, but larger organisations, e.g. a hospital or council office will have a postcode just for them, e.g. 'Buckingham Palace'. Beware that whilst postcodes don't change, new ones are being added all the time and they aren't sequential.