edders23 wrote:
I think that is unfair and possibly discriminatory anyone else think so ?
Would think that kind of thing quite common, particularly in more rural authorities covering huge areas.
Don't know precisely what you mean about the plates, but as regards testing vehicles I suspect it's quite common for some to travel quite far, while others don't.
As I've said, our plates have the licence date on them rather than the test date, so we're supposed to attend the depot in Cupar when our new plates have been made up and are ready to put on the vehicle once we've reapplied for a vehicle licence.
So from home that would entail a 30 mile round trip for me, although I try to fit it in with something else to minimise the mileage.
Suspect some of those furthest from Cupar would have a round trip of 40 miles or so.
And there's no obligation for licencees to actually live in the area, so the travel potential could be huge.
So really can't see any problem with what your council is doing, and I couldn't really see much scope for legal challenge, even assuming that was practical (and the courts are going to allow the Covid crisis to provide local authorities with a bit of leeway as regard the kind of thing you describe, if push comes to shove).
(Our own arrangement here is one reason I thought the new plate system was a bad idea - previously, our plates were undated, and would last the lifetime of the car as a licensed vehicle. But any sort of legal challenge almost certainly doomed to failure, even assuming such a challenge was practical.
But it is a bit of a pain, which is why I started making sure I applied for the three-year plates rather than the one-year option, quite apart from the financial savings. And why I'd prefer to borrow money for a new three-year plate in a few weeks rather than revert to the one-year option.)
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