DVLA consultation on historic vehicle registration processes
Jun 17 2024
*This is only relevant to UK members or those with vehicles registered in UK.*
On 9 May 2024, the Department for Transport (DfT) and the Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency (DVLA) launched a call for evidence around the existing policies and registration processes for historic, classic and rebuilt vehicles.
Mel Holley, Secretary, Federation of British Historic Vehicle Clubs Ltd has invited us to respond before 4 July 2024:
Good afternoon
This is an urgent call-to-action!
You may be aware of the 9 May Government announcement of a wide-ranging consultation about the registration of historic vehicles https://www.fbhvc.co.uk/news/article/dft-and-dvla-launch-call-for-evidence-around-registering-historic-classic-and-rebuilt-vehicles.
In total, the consultation asks 50 questions in 12 subject headings. It covers all historic vehicles - not solely cars - of all types, and are all represented within the Federation.
We are seeking your club’s and your members’ feedback, along with that from our wider supporter membership and community.
This will help shape the Federation’s formal response to the consultation, on a topic of great importance that affects the entire movement.
The consultation offers FBHVC member clubs the opportunity to shape the creation and evolution of policies to preserve our ability to restore, register, and use historic vehicles efficiently and fairly for tomorrow’s roads.
We strongly encourage you to share this information – and importantly the link https://evidence.fbhvc.co.uk/ – with all your members and wider historic vehicle friends (such as through social media).
The more people who respond to us the better, as this will ensure that our collective voices will carry considerable weight.
It’s taken a very long time - and a huge amount of extremely hard work by our dedicated team - to get to this position, as we battled on your behalf.
Now, it’s over to you!
Kind regards
Mel Holley
Secretary, Federation of British Historic Vehicle Clubs Ltd
PO Box 1563
Peterborough
PE1 9AU
Tel: 01708 223111
Email: secretary@fbhvc.co.uk