In plain English
This means the place where a person lived before where they live now. It refers to an earlier home address in that person's address history.
In context
Here, it labels the address a person had before their current address.
- Situation
- Navigating benefits and public-service applications, evidence requests, and decision status
- What it communicates
- labels an address-history field in the application.
Meaning limits
The term alone does not say how long the person lived there or whether there were any addresses earlier than that one.
Examples
“After he moved to Bristol, his previous address was a flat in Bath.”
“She gave her previous address to the school office when they updated her record.”