Provisional licence guides: how to apply, how long it lasts, what it costs, penalty points and what to do while you wait for it to arrive.
If you’ve decided on manual for a licence with no restrictions, your intensive course needs planning differently to an automatic one. Here’s the hour budget, the tier that fits, and the manual-only faults to drill.
If you hold a full licence but quietly avoid the motorway, drive only in daylight, or have to get used to a bigger vehicle, you do not need to relearn driving. You need targeted refresher hours on the exact thing that worries you – and as a licensed driver you have options a learner does not.
If you are a working adult who needs a licence by a hard date, a one week intensive driving course can work – but the test date, not the course, is the real bottleneck. Here is how to plan it.
A job offer or promotion riding on a driving licence by a fixed date changes how you should plan an intensive course. Here is the realistic, deadline-first way to pass quickly.
Two minutes and two methods tell you whether your UK licence is full manual or automatic-only: the code 78 check on the photocard, and the free GOV.UK lookup.
The full route to a UK driving licence, from your first provisional to that pink photocard: every step, every fee and the order to do it in.
The straight answer on when you can start learning to drive in the UK: 17 on public roads, your provisional from 15 years and 9 months, and the one exception that lets some people learn at 16.
Moved house? Here is exactly how to change the address on your provisional driving licence with the DVLA, online or by post, for free, plus what else to update.
A step-by-step UK guide to applying for your first provisional licence – online and by post, what it costs, what you need to hand, and when it lands on your doormat.
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