{"id":20427,"date":"2016-11-02T17:13:10","date_gmt":"2016-11-02T17:13:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.diaryofanadi.co.uk\/?p=20427"},"modified":"2016-11-02T17:13:10","modified_gmt":"2016-11-02T17:13:10","slug":"clifton-test-centre-to-close-in-january-2017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/?p=20427","title":{"rendered":"Clifton Test Centre to Close in January 2017"},"content":{"rendered":"

This took me by surprise. An email alert from DVSA announces that Clifton Test Centre<\/a> will cease operating on 25 January 2017. It is not relocating, which means Nottingham will have three test centres instead of four going forward (pending any further announcements, of course).<\/p>\n

I\u2019m sure there will be those who will find fault with this. Clifton doesn\u2019t request a bay park manoeuvre (it has no bays), and while DVSA is already trying its hardest to dumb the test down so that all you have to do to pass is to be able open the car door in less than three tries, there are already plenty of instructors working towards a similar goal in their own way by avoiding having to teach the bay park manoeuvre wherever possible.<\/p>\n

Note that there is no suggestion that Nottingham will be conducting fewer tests \u2013 another likely conclusion that will be drawn by some. The examiners at Clifton rotate anyway, and they\u2019ll just work out of the main centres.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This took me by surprise. An email alert from DVSA announces that Clifton Test Centre will cease operating on 25 January 2017. It is not relocating, which means Nottingham will have three test centres instead of four going forward (pending any further announcements, of course). I\u2019m sure there will be those who will find fault […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":true,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[81,84,87],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20427","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-driving-test-related","category-dvsa-related","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t