Gloucester driving test centre
Falcon Close, Green Farm Business Park, Quedgeley, GL2 4LY
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Key facts
- Gloucester's pass rate was 47.8% in 2025/26 from 7,420 tests, 2.2 points below the national average of 50.0%.
- That puts it 14 of 21 centres in South West (South West average 51.7%), a mid-table pass rates in the region, 3.9 points below it.
- Since 2021/22 the pass rate has fallen by 4.8 points, from 52.6% to 47.8%.
- On waiting times, learners who took a test in August 2026 had waited a median of 19 weeks since booking (longer than the national median of 11.9 weeks); the first week with 10% or more of slots still free was 24 weeks ahead.
- 32.4% 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.
Gloucester's test centre is at Quedgeley, on a business park south of the city, and its numbers are moving the wrong way: 47.8 per cent now against 52.6 in 2021/22, 222nd of the 302 centres ranked and 3.9 points below the South West average. The wait is 19 weeks, one of the longer ones in the region. The driving is roundabouts and 30 mph estate roads — ten named roundabouts across the practice loops on this page and only two give-way junctions in the whole set, so nearly every junction has a shape to read rather than a gap to judge. Fourteen pieces of traffic calming and 23 schools tell you the rest: this is a test done slowly and precisely.
Drive the Gloucester test routes before test day
5 loops from the centre, 49 km in all, with 38 roundabouts and 107 marked turns. Generated from the road network within 2.5 km of Gloucester; not DVSA’s own routes, but the same roads.
Drive it before test day
Drive all 5 loops around Gloucester from your phone before you ever sit in the car: every roundabout, every junction, in the order you will meet them.
- 5 routes · 49 km · 107 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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- Route 1 · via Elmore Lane West9.9 km loop with 11 roundabouts, 4 right turns, 3 left turns and a stretch of Elmore Road.9.9 km · 18 turns · 11 roundabouts
- Route 2 · via Bodiam Avenue11.8 km loop with 4 roundabouts, 10 right turns, 7 left turns and a stretch of Rea Lane.11.8 km · 21 turns · 4 roundabouts
- Route 3 · via Cole Avenue9.6 km loop with 7 roundabouts, 7 right turns, 7 left turns and a stretch of Bristol Road.9.6 km · 21 turns · 7 roundabouts
- Route 4 · via Severnvale Drive9.0 km loop with 8 roundabouts, 7 right turns, 8 left turns and a stretch of Bodiam Avenue.9.0 km · 23 turns · 8 roundabouts
- Route 5 · via Sims Lane8.7 km loop with 8 roundabouts, 9 right turns, 7 left turns and a stretch of Bristol Road.8.7 km · 24 turns · 8 roundabouts
The same access also opens the four test manoeuvres and eight roundabout scenarios: the two things a route drive cannot teach you.
Ten roundabouts are named on the practice loops on this page — Merlin Drive, Woodvale, Newhaven Road, Naas Lane, Fieldcourt Drive, School Lane, Falcon Close, Greenhill Drive, Bristol Road and Severnvale Drive — with two mini-roundabouts as well. One 9.9 kilometre loop takes in eleven roundabouts and asks for only four right turns and three left. That is a drive made almost entirely of approaches and exits.
Against all that, two give-way junctions on the whole set. Almost nothing here is an open T-junction where you pick your own gap in moving traffic. If that is your weakness, these are kinder roads than most; if lane discipline and signalling off a roundabout is the weakness, they are harder.
Kingsway and the Quedgeley estates supply the distance: Merlin Drive, Severnvale Drive, Fieldcourt Drive, Bodiam Avenue, Greenhill Drive, Woodvale and Newhaven Road, with Bristol Road and Naas Lane on the outside. Seventy-six per cent of it is at 30 mph, 12 per cent at 40 and 9 per cent at 60, and the 60 is single-carriageway lane — there is no dual carriageway on the set.
Fourteen pieces of traffic calming and six zebra crossings, more zebras than most sets carry, come with the 23 schools in the area. Eleven sets of traffic signals and ten signalled crossings do the rest of the joining. There are no level crossings.
Waiting time for a test at Gloucester
Median weeks between booking and taking the test, for tests taken each month. Dashed line: GB median for August 2026.
| Month | Median wait | Weeks to free slots | Slots offered | Still free |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 2026 | 19 | 24 | 37 | 32.4% |
| Jul 2026 | 19 | 24 | 23 | 41.9% |
| Jun 2026 | 15.4 | 24 | 31 | 37% |
| May 2026 | 17 | 24 | 29 | 38.1% |
| Apr 2026 | 10.3 | 24 | 42 | 26.5% |
| Mar 2026 | 9.6 | 24 | 42 | 24.6% |
Pass rate at Gloucester, 2007/08 to 2025/26
Share of car tests passed each April-to-March year. Dashed line: Great Britain average for 2025/26.
Month by month, 2025/26
By year and gender
| Year | Tests | Pass rate | Male | Female |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025/26 | 7,420 | 47.8% | 47.6% | 47.9% |
| 2024/25 | 6,511 | 49.6% | 50.0% | 49.2% |
| 2023/24 | 6,059 | 48.9% | 48.3% | 49.6% |
| 2022/23 | 6,963 | 52.5% | 52.1% | 52.9% |
| 2021/22 | 4,994 | 52.6% | 53.4% | 51.7% |
| 2020/21 | 1,805 | 48.1% | 51.5% | 45.4% |
| 2019/20 | 6,547 | 45.7% | 47.9% | 43.7% |
| 2018/19 | 7,427 | 44.8% | 46.5% | 43.2% |
South West average 51.7% · GB 50%
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Test day at Gloucester
The centre is on Falcon Close, in the Green Farm Business Park at Quedgeley, GL2 4LY, south of Gloucester itself and off the Bristol Road. It is a multi-purpose site: car tests, motorcycle module 1 off-road and module 2 on-road, and ADI part 2 and part 3. The off-road motorcycle area means there is usually more moving in the yard than at a car-only centre, so follow the signs in rather than parking on instinct.
No station is close enough to be practical, so nearly everyone arrives by car or with an instructor. DVSA publishes nothing about candidate parking here; on a business park the safe assumption is that the marked bays belong to the units and you leave the car on the estate road.
The wait was a median of 19 weeks for tests taken in July 2026, well above the national 11.9, with the first week showing a tenth of its slots free 24 weeks out. A year earlier it was 23 weeks.
Cheltenham is 16.5 kilometres away and was waiting 13.5 weeks, but passes 43.2 per cent — a shorter wait for a harder test. Monmouth, 29.8 kilometres off, passes 51 per cent at 11.6 weeks. Booking and cancelling is through GOV.UK only.
What DVSA publishes about Gloucester
Taken from the GOV.UK test centre finder, checked 3 September 2026. Where DVSA says nothing, this site says nothing.
- Tests conducted here
- carmotorcycle module 1 (off-road)motorcycle module 2 (on-road)ADI part 2ADI part 3
- Wheelchair access
- Not published. Ring DVSA before the day rather than assuming.
Other tests at Gloucester
This centre is not car only. DVSA publishes results for these categories separately, and they are taken by different candidates on different vehicles, so the rates are not comparable with the car figure above.
Learner reports from Gloucester
No reports yet for this centre. If you tested here, the first one is yours to write.
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 Gloucester.
- 1Junctions - observation
- 2Mirrors - change direction
- 3Junctions - turning right
- 4Response to signs - traffic lights
- 5Control - steering
- 6Move off - safely
Getting there
Falcon Close, Green Farm Business ParkQuedgeley GL2 4LY
Directions in Google Maps · Check centre notes on GOV.UK
Nearby centres
- CheltenhamGL52 2HQ · 16 km43.2%-6.8 vs GB13.5 wkswait
- MonmouthNP25 3DP · 30 km51.0%+1.0 vs GB11.6 wkswait
Questions learners ask about Gloucester
- Is Gloucester an easy test centre?
- Its 47.8% 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 Gloucester?
- In August 2026 the median gap between booking and sitting a test at Gloucester was 19 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 Gloucester driving test centre?
- Gloucester test centre is at Falcon Close, Green Farm Business Park, Quedgeley, GL2 4LY. 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 Gloucester do a year?
- 7,420 car tests were conducted at Gloucester in 2025/26, of which 3,545 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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