Halifax driving test centre
11 Cross Street West, Pellon, Halifax, HX2 0HA
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Key facts
- Halifax's pass rate was 45% in 2025/26 from 5,845 tests, 5 points below the national average of 50.0%.
- That puts it 25 of 27 centres in Yorkshire and The Humber (Yorkshire and The Humber average 50.4%), one of the lower pass rates in the region, 5.4 points below it.
- The rate has been stable since 2021/22, moving between 43.9% (2023/24) and 45.6% (2021/22).
- Male candidates passed at 48.4% and female candidates at 41.3%, a gap of 7.1 points, wider than at most centres.
- On waiting times, learners who took a test in August 2026 had waited a median of 11.1 weeks since booking; the first week with 10% or more of slots still free was 20 weeks ahead.
- 32.5% 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.
Halifax has almost no roundabouts and a great many right turns. No conventional roundabout is named within 2.5 km of the centre; twenty-nine mini-roundabouts are. Three of the five practice loops on this page ask for thirteen right turns or more, one of them sixteen. Three quarters of the roads mapped nearby carry a 20 limit and only a fifth are 30. The test here is therefore a sequence of turns out of and into slow, narrow residential streets, judged on observation and position rather than on speed. The pass rate has been steady for years at a little under half, which puts Halifax 25th of the 27 centres in Yorkshire and the Humber.
Drive the Halifax test routes before test day
5 loops from the centre, 52 km in all, with 3 roundabouts and 113 marked turns. Generated from the road network within 2.5 km of Halifax; not DVSA’s own routes, but the same roads.
Drive it before test day
Drive all 5 loops around Halifax from your phone before you ever sit in the car: every roundabout, every junction, in the order you will meet them.
- 5 routes · 52 km · 113 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 Burdock Way10.5 km loop with 1 roundabout, 13 right turns, 9 left turns and a stretch of Aachen Way.10.5 km · 23 turns · 1 roundabout
- Route 2 · via Highroad Well Lane10.1 km loop with 15 right turns, 11 left turns and a stretch of Roils Head Road.10.1 km · 26 turns
- Route 3 · via Wheatley Road9.0 km loop with 16 right turns, 10 left turns and a stretch of Ovenden Wood Road.9.0 km · 26 turns
- Route 4 · via Moor End Road11.7 km loop with 1 roundabout, 12 right turns, 14 left turns and a stretch of Ovenden Road.11.7 km · 27 turns · 1 roundabout
- Route 5 · via Ovenden Road10.7 km loop with 1 roundabout, 2 right turns, 8 left turns and a stretch of Pellon Lane.10.7 km · 11 turns · 1 roundabout
The same access also opens the four test manoeuvres and eight roundabout scenarios: the two things a route drive cannot teach you.
Right turns are the shape of a Halifax test. One loop on this page asks for sixteen of them in nine kilometres and another for fifteen. A right turn on a narrow 20 mph street with cars parked on both sides is genuinely hard driving: you need a gap, a view past the parked line, and somewhere to wait that does not block the traffic behind you.
Roundabouts hardly appear. Twenty-nine mini-roundabouts are mapped within 2.5 km and no conventional roundabout is named at all, so the roundabout drill most candidates rehearse is barely tested here and the mini-roundabout drill is tested constantly. Signal for the exit, give way to the right, keep left of the circle, and do not stop dead on one because you were unsure.
Wood Lane, Long Lane, Pellon New Road and Stretchgate Lane carry a good share of the routes, with Keighley Road, Wheatley Road and Ovenden Way on the longer ones, and Doctor Hill, Brackenbed Lane and City Lane on the tighter ones. Forty-three signalled junctions are mapped in the area, most of them on the bigger roads towards the town.
Forty schools sit in the same radius. In an area that is mostly 20 mph, that means the hour of your test changes the traffic you meet on the same street more than the route does. Manoeuvres are usually set on the quieter residential roads, where parking is heavy enough on one side to make a pull-up on the right worth practising properly.
Pass rate at Halifax, 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 | 5,845 | 45.0% | 48.4% | 41.3% |
| 2024/25 | 4,959 | 44.7% | 45.1% | 44.4% |
| 2023/24 | 5,638 | 43.9% | 43.8% | 44.1% |
| 2022/23 | 4,207 | 45.4% | 47.3% | 43.5% |
| 2021/22 | 3,754 | 45.6% | 51.1% | 40.7% |
| 2020/21 | 979 | 45.4% | 47.1% | 43.7% |
| 2019/20 | 5,099 | 40.8% | 44.0% | 37.6% |
| 2018/19 | 5,022 | 36.0% | 40.4% | 32.2% |
Yorkshire and The Humber average 50.4% · GB 50%
Waiting time for a test at Halifax
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 | 11.1 | 20 | 40 | 32.5% |
| Jul 2026 | 11.1 | 19 | 37 | 26.9% |
| Jun 2026 | 14.1 | 20 | 34 | 28.1% |
| May 2026 | 7.1 | 22.3 | 50 | 23.5% |
| Apr 2026 | 8.1 | 23.5 | 48 | 26.9% |
| Mar 2026 | 16 | 23.8 | 30 | 36.8% |
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Test day at Halifax
The centre is at 11 Cross Street West in Pellon, on the north-west side of Halifax. GOV.UK confirms that you can access this test centre if you use a wheelchair, which is published for only some centres and worth knowing in advance.
The tests offered are car, motorcycle module 2 on the road, and ADI part 3. There are no lorry or bus tests here. Halifax station is getting on for three kilometres away, far enough that nearly everyone arrives by car with an instructor rather than walking up from the train.
Nothing is published about candidate parking or the waiting room. The streets around the centre are residential and mostly 20 mph, so plan for what is typical there: a drop at the door and a space found on a nearby road, with a couple of minutes allowed for finding it. Booking, moving and cancelling all go through GOV.UK. Ten minutes early is plenty. The examiner checks your licence, takes the signed declaration that the car is insured, and does the eyesight check outside before you get in. The drive starts in a 20 zone, which means the first thing assessed is a move-off between parked cars.
What DVSA publishes about Halifax
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 2 (on-road)ADI part 3
- Wheelchair access
- DVSA states you can access this centre in a wheelchair.
Other tests at Halifax
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 Halifax
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 Halifax.
- 1Junctions - observation
- 2Mirrors - change direction
- 3Junctions - turning right
- 4Response to signs - traffic lights
- 5Control - steering
- 6Move off - safely
Getting there
11 Cross Street West, PellonHalifax HX2 0HA
Directions in Google Maps · Check centre notes on GOV.UK
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Questions learners ask about Halifax
- Is Halifax an easy test centre?
- Its 45% 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 Halifax?
- In August 2026 the median gap between booking and sitting a test at Halifax was 11.1 weeks, and you had to look about 20 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 Halifax driving test centre?
- Halifax test centre is at 11 Cross Street West, Pellon, Halifax, HX2 0HA. 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 Halifax do a year?
- 5,845 car tests were conducted at Halifax in 2025/26, of which 2,629 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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