This story from the Bromsgrove Standard says that driving tests will be available from Halfords in Bromsgrove from 19 June 2013. Tests will be conducted on Wednesdays and Fridays – the first time the town has had tests there in over 17 years.
I have my own reservations about this decentralisation thing. For a start, I’m fairly certain that the examiners conducting tests have not been employed in addition to those already covering Redditch and Birmingham, so it isn’t difficult to imagine who will be providing cover for Bromsgrove. You all know what happens when you spread butter too thinly, so you don’t need me to spell it out.
Bromsgrove managed perfectly well for 17 years without a test centre, so it is hard to find the logic in stretching the services at Redditch and Birmingham more thinly just so it can have one. Well, not unless you count trying to win votes as logical – this is, after all, a LibCon initiative.