Driving License Address Query

[Sammo123]

Evening,

My Dad lives in a park home (think a large ish caravan) on the Isle of Wight. The site that he lives on don't allow any mail to come to the site. He has just started a new driving job and it's been picked up that the address on his license doesn't match his home address. He's explained the issue of no mail to them which they have accepted for now as long as he gets it sorted asap! Can anyone offer any advice as to what he can do with regards to changing the address on his license? Moving isn't an option and apparently the site owners won't budge on the no mail policy. He's panicking over getting pulled over and fined and also the possibility of losing his new job if he can't sort this out.

Cheers,

Sammo

[rewc]

If the site is licenced for residential, rather than holiday occupation , then the site owner must allow mail delivery. That is the law.

Is your father using his holiday home for residence?


http://www.rowanwater.co.uk/useful-information/res...

[Sammo123]

It's a licensed residential site. The site managers have said that any post that arrives for residents gets returned to the sender. Although my Dad has heard (just hearsay of course) that they actually shred the majority of what turns up.

[rewc]

Sammo123 said:

It's a licensed residential site. The site managers have said that any post that arrives for residents gets returned to the sender. Although my Dad has heard (just hearsay of course) that they actually shred the majority of what turns up.

Assuming your father is resident and paying council tax directly to the council then the site owners are breaking the law. I suggest that your Father's actual status is determined by contacting the local council. Is he paying council tax direct and on the electoral role or not? Has he got an actual postal address for his mobile home? If not suspect something fishy is going on. Is he trying to make his driving licence address the site office or his actual mobile home address?

"As a Residential Home Owner, your Park Home is your main address and you register this address with the Council so you are on the Electoral Role and you are then registered to pay Council Tax for this address. A Park Home falls under Band A for Council Tax and is therefore the cheapest at around £1,000 p/a. The Council Tax is paid directly from the Lodge Owner to the Council and any involvement of the Park Owner should be viewed very suspiciously. If the Park Owner of the site you live on is asking you for Council Tax then the chances are you are illegally living in a holiday home and handing over £1,000 a year for your Park Owner’s holiday fund!

2) As a registered tax payer, you are entitled to postal services directly to your door and refuse collection from your home, just are you would be when living in a house. These services should be provided by the Royal Mail and Local Authority. If the post is delivered to a mail box at the Site Office for example, or you have to take your rubbish to a refuse area on site for collection, this is not common practice for Residential Home Owners and should be investigated.

Edited by rewc on Thursday 26th October 19:54

Edited by rewc on Thursday 26th October 20:19

[mybrainhurts]

...Licence

[mickmcpaddy]

I thought "that type" didn't bother with licenses and such like.

Seriously though, I wouldn't worry about getting points, where are they going to send the begging letters to?

[Cold]

Your driving licence address doesn't have to correspond with your residential address.

[KevinCamaroSS]

Cold said:

Your driving licence address doesn't have to correspond with your residential address.

Where do you get that idea from? Please post the legislation for this.

[TooMany2cvs]

KevinCamaroSS said:

Cold said:

Your driving licence address doesn't have to correspond with your residential address.

Where do you get that idea from? Please post the legislation for this.

Surely, unless there's legislation explicitly saying that it MUST be your residential address (and what happens for people who move between residences?), then it can be any address through which you can be contacted quickly and reliably?

The problem, though, appears to not be a legislative one, but one with the employer who are querying the discrepancy - perhaps for insurance reasons.

[ashleyman]

Cold said:

Your driving licence address doesn't have to correspond with your residential address.

Yep. Mine certainly doesn’t.

Drivers license is registered to my parents place, as is car. Car is insured from there too BUT theyve been notified that where it actually lives is elsewhere.

Never been a problem for me except when needing ID at the local post office to collect parcels.

So long as your mail is accessible at the address you’ve nominated it’s all good. Also known as a correspondence address.

[anonymous-user]

WTF is this thing with "license"? I mean, the bloody thing even has "licence" written right on it.

The second post earns bonus points for use of "licenced" in place of "licensed".

Noun c, verb s. This is not rocket science!

[Fore Left]

Rocket csience surely

[SantaBarbara]

Can he use a Post Office as his address? Mail to be collected from the post office.

[KevinCamaroSS]

TooMany2cvs said:

KevinCamaroSS said:

Cold said:

Your driving licence address doesn't have to correspond with your residential address.

Where do you get that idea from? Please post the legislation for this.

Surely, unless there's legislation explicitly saying that it MUST be your residential address (and what happens for people who move between residences?), then it can be any address through which you can be contacted quickly and reliably?

The problem, though, appears to not be a legislative one, but one with the employer who are querying the discrepancy - perhaps for insurance reasons.

DVLA requires the addressed you have lived at for the last 3 years when you apply for your first provisional licence. After that it is a requirement to update the address whenever you move. I know that this implies rather than legislates, however, nowhere does it say it can be any convenient address.

[Mandat]

Many years ago I was able to use a PO box as the correspondece address with the DVLA, although the residential address was still the one that was printed on the licence itself.

I don't know if this is still possible.

[Red Devil]

KevinCamaroSS said:

TooMany2cvs said:

KevinCamaroSS said:

Cold said:

Your driving licence address doesn't have to correspond with your residential address.

Where do you get that idea from? Please post the legislation for this.

Surely, unless there's legislation explicitly saying that it MUST be your residential address (and what happens for people who move between residences?), then it can be any address through which you can be contacted quickly and reliably?

The problem, though, appears to not be a legislative one, but one with the employer who are querying the discrepancy - perhaps for insurance reasons.

DVLA requires the addressed you have lived at for the last 3 years when you apply for your first provisional licence.

Can you provide a link to the legislation which stipulates this or is it the DVLA making stuff up to suit itself (it has form for this).

KevinCamaroSS said:

After that it is a requirement to update the address whenever you move. I know that this implies rather than legislates, however, nowhere does it say it can be any convenient address.

The only Residence requirement in the RTA 1988 Part III relates to something entirely different.

According to this FoIA response by the DVLA, it will accept any postal address where the holder can be easily contacted.
https://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/drivers_lic...

Go figure.

[grumpy52]

Many serving members of the armed forces use the address of parents or next of kin etc for correspondence or registration of vehicles .
Many who are single are very mobile with their accommodation not just in this country but around the world .

[TooMany2cvs]

KevinCamaroSS said:

TooMany2cvs said:

KevinCamaroSS said:

Cold said:

Your driving licence address doesn't have to correspond with your residential address.

Where do you get that idea from? Please post the legislation for this.

Surely, unless there's legislation explicitly saying that it MUST be your residential address (and what happens for people who move between residences?), then it can be any address through which you can be contacted quickly and reliably?

The problem, though, appears to not be a legislative one, but one with the employer who are querying the discrepancy - perhaps for insurance reasons.

DVLA requires the addressed you have lived at for the last 3 years when you apply for your first provisional licence.

Bog standard ID check.

KevinCamaroSS said:

After that it is a requirement to update the address whenever you move.

Yes, whenever the old one is no longer any use for contacting you.

KevinCamaroSS said:

I know that this implies rather than legislates, however, nowhere does it say it can be any convenient address.

Nowhere does it say it can't... Implication (or, rather, inference) means zero.

[SantaBarbara]

grumpy52 said:

Many serving members of the armed forces use the address of parents or next of kin etc for correspondence or registration of vehicles .
Many who are single are very mobile with their accommodation not just in this country but around the world .

If they were stationed in Germany, how could they do that, please explain?

[grumpy52]

SantaBarbara said:

grumpy52 said:

Many serving members of the armed forces use the address of parents or next of kin etc for correspondence or registration of vehicles .
Many who are single are very mobile with their accommodation not just in this country but around the world .

If they were stationed in Germany, how could they do that, please explain?

If they were on short detachments as many specialists are , it would be a constant round of address changes if moving every 3-6 months .
When I was in Germany in the 80s and 90s forces members vehicles were all registered at fictitious addresses for security reasons and had bogus reg numbers .
Mine was registered as being a year older and resident in Cambridge, a town and a county that I have never resided in.
Later I believe they were given German reg marks but I had returned to the UK and moved on by then .
Many in the Forces use parents as their permanent address as unlike some Army regiments they are not stationed in one place for many years .
It's different for some as they move about between serving units especially if they are single or on attachment with foreign Armed Forces .

Edited by grumpy52 on Saturday 28th October 00:50