Moving Home/Changing Address

Andyjp1

Hi All,
Me and the Mrs are due to be moving out Next Friday - we're moving into my parents for a couple of weeks until we get the keys to our new house.
What am I required to do in relation to changing my address with the DVLA? It's £14 every time to change your address, surely i'm not expected to change address within quick succession of each other? 

HampshireH

Your licence needs to have your current address on it.

I believe if you get stopped its a £1k fine. Infact just looked and its the bit in bold on the same page it tells you its £14.00

The risk is yours.

ClaretHead

Also remember that changing your address on your driving licence does not change the address on vehicle registration documents - so parking tickets etc may still go to an old address - you have to change the address on those as well

AdrianC

Andyjp1 said:

What am I required to do in relation to changing my address with the DVLA? It's £14 every time to change your address

No, it isn't. It's free of charge to change your address - and don't forget you need to change the address on any V5Cs, as well as your driving licence.
https://www.gov.uk/change-address-driving-licence

It's £14 to change the photo on your photocard at the same time as an address change. Do you want to do that?

Andyjp1

AdrianC said:

Andyjp1 said:

What am I required to do in relation to changing my address with the DVLA? It's £14 every time to change your address

No, it isn't. It's free of charge to change your address - and don't forget you need to change the address on any V5Cs, as well as your driving licence.
https://www.gov.uk/change-address-driving-licence

It's £14 to change the photo on your photocard at the same time as an address change. Do you want to do that?

Hi,

No change of photo, just address.

Thanks

AdrianC

So there y'go. It's free. It says so on that gov.uk page - were you mis-reading it, or were you looking at a scam site?

Andyjp1

I've clearly mis-read - im tired - its early lol

davidmcn

I've not heard of anybody being fined for this at all (the £1k is a maximum, not a standard penalty!) and I can't see a court enforcing it if you're clearly in the midst of moving house. I presume you're getting mail redirected?

Andyjp1

Yes, all mail directed - i've instructed the RM

HummingBird76

Andyjp1 said:

Yes, all mail directed - i've instructed the RM

Can I ask what you're doing about the gap?  I'm in the exact same position, moving out in 3 weeks and then moving into my parents for 2 weeks before I get the keys for my house.  I wasn't planning on changing any addresses etc until I moved in but I'm not sure what to do about the mail redirection.  Can you redirect it twice...?

Rambosmum

HummingBird76 said:

Andyjp1 said:

Yes, all mail directed - i've instructed the RM

Can I ask what you're doing about the gap?  I'm in the exact same position, moving out in 3 weeks and then moving into my parents for 2 weeks before I get the keys for my house.  I wasn't planning on changing any addresses etc until I moved in but I'm not sure what to do about the mail redirection.  Can you redirect it twice...?

you can cancel a redirect and set up a new one.