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Richard53

Has there been a change in the rules recently? I'm pretty sure that when I got my personal plate a few years ago it was £80 + £25 transfer fee to put it on retention, and then £25 to transfer, but you could keep it on retention as long as you liked. I've had a look at the .gov website, and it now says that you can keep it on retention for up to three years, with increasing cost of £105/130/155. It doesn't say what happens after 3 years - do you lose the right to the number?


I'm fed up with having it on the car, to be honest, and I would quite like to take it off and keep it to pass on to someone in the family with the appropriate initials, but this could be some years away. But if it's going to cost year on year to have it 'held', I won't bother.

Iceweasel

That must have been a few years ago, right enough.

It's £25 a year to retain the plate as you say and you can keep on renewing the retention for one, two, or three years at a time.

The £80 is a one off which you pay with the first period of retention.

So if you paid £155 for 3 years, after the third year you would pay only £75 for another 3 years.

That's my understanding and is what my cousin has done - he feels the value of his plate is increasing by much more than £25 a year.

albionrovers

Do you have a V in your name? I do, it makes the plate as cheap as chips.

Weird_Nev

To really complete the Norn Iron Plate, it should have an "OIL" first three, and be on a mid 90's Lexus.