New online service to change address on vehicle logbook

More modernising of vehicle ownership has come into play in England, Scotland and Wales. You can now update your change of address details online, saving the hassle of writing it out on the paper logbook and posting it off to Swansea.

With the housing market opening up across the UK post-lockdown, motorists who need to update the address details on their vehicle logbook (V5C) can now do this online in a matter of minutes. This will slash the amount of time it takes for motorists to receive a new logbook from up to six weeks to just five working days.

Last year DVLA received around 1.4 million paper applications for change of address on a vehicle record. By using this new service to change the address on the logbook the information will be updated instantly and motorists will receive a new logbook in the post within five working days.

Using this new service, it takes less than two minutes for motorists to inform DVLA of their new address. All you need is your vehicle registration number, logbook document reference number and postcode.

Once you have used the online service to change your address you will receive an email confirming this and to inform you to destroy the old logbook. See gov.uk/tell-dvla-changed-address