Where is Grantham Driving Test Centre

I am very often asked the question ‘Where is Grantham Driving Test Centre?’, it used to be tucked away in a dense residential area.  Unless you are specifically going there, you were very unlikely to stumble across it in your travels.

But how things have changed!  Now it is on the main A52 road coming into Grantham where the goods vehicle testing station used to be.  If you google it, there are still many links that direct you to the old location, but the address is now:

Grantham (Somerby)

Spitalgate Airfield
Blue Harbour
Grantham
Lincolnshire
NG31 7TX

Latest figures from the Driving Standards Agency, indicate a continuing trend of above national average pass rates.  Grantham Driving Test Centre itself is rather large, with loads of space around the bay parking spaces in the car park, and the town itself is strikingly small in comparison to the catchment area of nearby Peterborough Driving Test Centre.  As such, it does not offer the diversity of driving conditions experienced elsewhere.  Putting the A1 dual carraigeway aside, there are not many other dual carriageways, there are few what I would call ‘large’ roundabouts, and even fewer multi-laned roundabouts.  This may go some way to explaining the consistently higher pass rates achieved at this test centre.

A very large new bypass is currently underway in Grantham and has resulted in even more traffic congestion in what was already an excessively slow moving traffic flow through the town.  As a consequence, it is not unusual for the driving test to last longer than the target of 38-40 minutes, while you make your way through very slow moving traffic.

One other notable feature of the driving tests offered at Grantham Driving Test Centre is the fairly high frequency of driving up and down relatively steep gradients.  This is not immediately apparent when at the test centre itself, but within a few minutes drive, it is very likely that you will experience driving up and down hills, being stopped at traffic lights on a hill, and of course, you will certainly be asked to pull over, and move off from a gradient at least once on the driving test in Grantham.

Feel free to ask any questions below relating to Grantham Driving Test Centre and I will be happy to assist.

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