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For more on marking an answer as the "Best Answer", please visit our FAQ.You can see the electoral register for free at the nearest Post Office to the address - or at least you used to be able to a few years ago.
If you don't get success try the local library.
If the address is a long way away from you will have to balance the travel cost with the online cost - and how much you really want the information.
By law, the local authority has to make the electoral register available for anyone to look at (in person).
An edited register exists which can be bought by any person, company or organisation. When a person registers to vote they can choose not to be on this list, therefore you have no guarantee of tracing this person using the edited list.
Post Offices in general don't have the electoral roll any more (because they would have to pay for their copy - that's what my local postmaster told me)
A library or the council offices in the area of the address is your best bet. You could try phoning - I don't know whether they would give the info over the phone.
It's possible that the person concerned has asked for their name to be excluded from the publicly available register so you may get nowhere anyway.
However this web site could be useful:
If you know the name of someone else who lives in the same road, search on them.
Whn the results come up, there's an option to search for neighbours.
You don't need to register for this search.