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Chadderton driving test centre

9 Broadgate, Broadway Business Park, Chadderton, Oldham, OL9 9XA

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Pass rate 2025/26
46.8%
GB 50.0% · North West 49.0%
Median wait, Aug 2026
12weeks
Free slots 24 weeks ahead
Tests a year
15,988
7,475 passed

Key facts

  • Chadderton's pass rate was 46.8% in 2025/26 from 15,988 tests, 3.2 points below the national average of 50.0%.
  • That puts it 22 of 31 centres in North West (North West average 49.0%), one of the lower pass rates in the region, 2.2 points below it.
  • The rate has been stable since 2021/22, moving between 44.2% (2023/24) and 47.3% (2021/22).
  • Male candidates passed at 49.8% and female candidates at 43.3%, a gap of 6.5 points, wider than at most centres.
  • On waiting times, learners who took a test in August 2026 had waited a median of 12 weeks since booking; the first week with 10% or more of slots still free was 24 weeks ahead.
  • 29.7% of the standard slots in the booking window were still unbooked in August 2026, which usually means a cancellation or new date is realistic here.

Count the junctions and Chadderton makes sense. Within a couple of miles of the centre there are twenty-nine mini-roundabouts and a little over a hundred sets of traffic lights, which is a lot for an area this size. You are rarely more than a few hundred metres from a decision.

The centre itself is a unit on Broadgate, inside Broadway Business Park, with Oldham on one side and north Manchester on the other. Just over half the roads around it are 20 mph now, so the test is a slow one, made of approaches and observations rather than open stretches. The pass rate has barely moved in five years, which tells you the difficulty here is structural, not a bad patch.

Drive the Chadderton test routes before test day

5 loops from the centre, 58 km in all, with 24 roundabouts and 136 marked turns. Generated from the road network within 2.5 km of Chadderton; not DVSA’s own routes, but the same roads.

Drive it before test day

Drive all 5 loops around Chadderton from your phone before you ever sit in the car: every roundabout, every junction, in the order you will meet them.

  • 5 routes · 58 km · 136 marked turns
  • Examiner-style marking on signalling and observation
  • Street View tour of each route
  • Every roundabout and junction, in the order you'll meet them
  • The four test manoeuvres and eight roundabout scenarios, included
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  1. Route 1 · via Broadway
    11.0 km loop with 5 roundabouts, 14 right turns, 12 left turns and a stretch of Greengate.
    11.0 km · 31 turns · 5 roundabouts
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  2. Route 2 · via Broadway
    12.4 km loop with 5 roundabouts, 13 right turns, 10 left turns and a stretch of Broadgate.
    12.4 km · 28 turns · 5 roundabouts
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  3. Route 3 · via Victoria Ave East
    11.6 km loop with 5 roundabouts, 10 right turns, 5 left turns and a stretch of Broadgate.
    11.6 km · 20 turns · 5 roundabouts
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  4. Route 4 · via Broadgate
    11.1 km loop with 2 roundabouts, 13 right turns, 13 left turns and a stretch of Grimshaw Lane.
    11.1 km · 28 turns · 2 roundabouts
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  5. Route 5 · via Broadway
    11.5 km loop with 7 roundabouts, 13 right turns, 9 left turns and a stretch of Greengate.
    11.5 km · 29 turns · 7 roundabouts
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The same access also opens the four test manoeuvres and eight roundabout scenarios: the two things a route drive cannot teach you.

Half the roads here are 20 mph and a third are 30, so the top end of the test is a modest 40. What makes Chadderton awkward is not speed. It is the sheer number of junctions and the fact that so many of them are mini-roundabouts. There are thirty-one within a couple of miles, and they behave nothing like the painted circles they resemble. You give way to the right, you signal properly, and you do not straddle them.

The larger roundabouts your instructor will name are these:

  • Broadgate, on the estate itself, usually the first one of the test
  • Greengate, and Greengate Street behind it, where residential junctions come thick and fast
  • Kingsway and Fourways, both carrying through traffic
  • Hollins Road, Hall Drive and Jardine Way on the wider loops

Broadway is the quickest road you are likely to touch and the one where merging and lane discipline get tested properly. Away from it, Grimshaw Lane, Whitegate Lane, Selkirk Road and Kingston Avenue are ordinary terraced and semi-detached streets, parked on both sides, where the examiner watches how you deal with an oncoming car and a gap.

Sixty-seven schools sit inside the same radius, an unusually high count, and the streets round them are exactly the 20 mph roads the loops use. Between three and four in the afternoon they are full. The practice loops on this page run eleven to twelve kilometres and take in five or six roundabouts each, which is a fair reflection of what the drive actually feels like.

Pass rate at Chadderton, 2016/17 to 2025/26

Share of car tests passed each April-to-March year. Dashed line: Great Britain average for 2025/26.

30%42.5%55%GB 50%46.8%16/1720/2125/26

Month by month, 2025/26

0%30%60%AprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecJanFebMar

By year and gender

YearTestsPass rateMaleFemale
2025/2615,98846.8%49.8%43.3%
2024/2512,45444.9%48.0%41.5%
2023/2412,72844.2%47.4%40.8%
2022/2310,58644.5%49.0%40.0%
2021/228,40147.3%52.4%42.0%
2020/212,47250.1%56.7%43.9%
2019/207,72946.0%51.7%40.8%
2018/198,97542.6%48.5%37.7%

North West average 49% · GB 50%

Waiting time for a test at Chadderton

Median weeks between booking and taking the test, for tests taken each month. Dashed line: GB median for August 2026.

01020GB 11.9 wks12Sep 2023May 2024Feb 2025Nov 2025Aug 2026
MonthMedian waitWeeks to free slotsSlots offeredStill free
Aug 202612244429.7%
Jul 202612243735.4%
Jun 20269.422.44331.4%
May 20267.321.84932.1%
Apr 20266.122.35233.9%
Mar 20267.6244933.7%

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Test day at Chadderton

Broadway Business Park is a working estate of low units and loading yards, and the test centre is one door among many at 9 Broadgate. It has neighbouring businesses either side and no frontage that stands out, so find it once before the day rather than circling on the morning.

There is parking on site, though space is limited and shared with the businesses around it. Accounts of how much of it candidates can use differ, which is typical of a leased unit on an estate like this. Assume you may have to wait for a bay, and get there with ten minutes in hand rather than five. Toilets are available, male, female and accessible, and the building is wheelchair accessible with staff pointing the way.

Moston station is about a kilometre off, and the Metrolink line between Oldham and Manchester runs close by with a stop called Broadway. Either leaves you a walk through the estate, so allow for it.

Estate traffic is heaviest first thing and around the end of the working day, with vans manoeuvring in the yards. August has been the strongest month here and November the weakest, which mostly reflects daylight and weather on the residential streets.

What DVSA publishes about Chadderton

Taken from the GOV.UK test centre finder, checked 3 September 2026. Where DVSA says nothing, this site says nothing.

Tests conducted here
carADI part 3
Wheelchair access
Not published. Ring DVSA before the day rather than assuming.

Learner reports from Chadderton

No reports yet for this centre. If you tested here, the first one is yours to write.

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What examiners mark most often

DVSA does not publish faults by centre, but it does publish them nationally. These collected the most marks across every car test in Great Britain in 2025/26, and they are the same ones you will be marked on at Chadderton.

  1. 1Junctions - observation
  2. 2Mirrors - change direction
  3. 3Junctions - turning right
  4. 4Response to signs - traffic lights
  5. 5Control - steering
  6. 6Move off - safely

All ten, and what each one means

Getting there

9 Broadgate, Broadway Business Park, Chadderton
Oldham OL9 9XA

Directions in Google Maps · Check centre notes on GOV.UK

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Questions learners ask about Chadderton

Is Chadderton an easy test centre?
Its 46.8% pass rate in 2025/26 is below the 50.0% national average. Busy urban roads and complex junctions usually explain lower rates; knowing the local routes closes most of that gap.
How long is the wait for a driving test at Chadderton?
In August 2026 the median gap between booking and sitting a test at Chadderton was 12 weeks, and you had to look about 24 weeks ahead to find a week with at least 10% of slots free. DVSA publishes this monthly; the figure above updates when they do.
Where is Chadderton driving test centre?
Chadderton test centre is at 9 Broadgate, Broadway Business Park, Chadderton, Oldham, OL9 9XA. Arrive at least 10 minutes early with your provisional licence; parking rules vary by centre, so check the learner reports below.
How many driving tests does Chadderton do a year?
15,988 car tests were conducted at Chadderton in 2025/26, of which 7,475 were passed.

Source: DVSA tables DRT122A (pass rates by centre and month) and DRT122F (waiting times and availability), Open Government Licence v3.0. PassRank adds the comparisons and rankings.

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