2 Different Adresses

p00hsticks

Richiem1987 said:

One address must be a permanment address of residence, which is where you are registered on the electorical role, and is also your billing address. The other address can be a correspondance address.

Sorry, that's simply not true - it's perfectly permissible to be on the electoral roll at two different addresses, as long as you only vote once in any one election.

https://www.gov.uk/electoral-register

Ther are plenty of people who divide their time between two places- students with 'home' and 'term time' addresses, people who commute for work and stay in one place Monday-Friday and another at weekends or just people who like to split their time between more than one location (as I did until recently). You can be on the electoral roll in both places, you pay council tax in both places, and you can have multiple bank acconuts with some registered at one address and some at the other.

Flugelhorn

user1977 said:

Flugelhorn said:

the issue comes if you need proof of address for anything eg DBS check or if you children are applying for a specific school etc etc  then the problems of address fraud start 

It may also cause complications with credit records, as they tend to assume that you're using only one address at a time for bank accounts etc.

OP, it might help if you explain why you're planning to do this and why you're concerned about the "legality" or otherwise of it?

I live at 2 places-  not sure what this does to credit records? would it matter? I don't have mortgage, credit cards or loans. - reluctant to be on the electoral register at both as doubles risk of having to do jury duty

Mojisola

talha_muhammad99 said:

I just wanted to ask whether it is legal/possible to have 2 different home addresses. 

I want to live with my parents at one adress (live for free) and also live sometimes at another address ( an apartment that I want to rent) for around 4 months.

I want to make the apartment as main adress on my driving licence and make a new bank card with the apartment adress but on the same time I don't want to remove myself from my parents address as it will take too long to change adress in every place.

Isn't that unnecessary for such a short time?  You'll have to change your driving licence again at the end of the 4 months.

Richiem1987

p00hsticks said:

Richiem1987 said:

One address must be a permanment address of residence, which is where you are registered on the electorical role, and is also your billing address. The other address can be a correspondance address.

Sorry, that's simply not true - it's perfectly permissible to be on the electoral roll at two different addresses, as long as you only vote once in any one election.

https://www.gov.uk/electoral-register

Ther are plenty of people who divide their time between two places- students with 'home' and 'term time' addresses, people who commute for work and stay in one place Monday-Friday and another at weekends or just people who like to split their time between more than one location (as I did until recently). You can be on the electoral roll in both places, you pay council tax in both places, and you can have multiple bank acconuts with some registered at one address and some at the other.

Apologeees that I was wrong there. I just had difficulty in the past having lived at two addresses, so I moved everything to one address and not long after my credit improved. 

gettingtheresometime

fuzzything said:

Yes. University students who live away from home during term time do this.

If you want ID / bank cards with the rented address on it is a good idea to register to vote at both places.

What so they 2 votes??

user1977

gettingtheresometime said:

fuzzything said:

Yes. University students who live away from home during term time do this.

If you want ID / bank cards with the rented address on it is a good idea to register to vote at both places.

What so they 2 votes??

As already mentioned, no, you're only allowed to vote once in each election.