Lee On The Solent driving test centre
The Richard Sainsbury Building, Daedalus Argus Gate Daedalus Drive, Lee on the Solent, PO13 9JY
Drive the 5 routes around Lee On The Solent before test day →
Key facts
- Lee On The Solent's pass rate was 63.2% in 2025/26 from 8,502 tests, 13.2 points above the national average of 50.0%.
- That puts it 2 of 30 centres in South East (South East average 52.9%), one of the higher pass rates in the region, 10.3 points above it.
- Since 2021/22 the pass rate has fallen by 2.4 points, from 65.6% to 63.2%.
- On waiting times, learners who took a test in August 2026 had waited a median of 20 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.
- A year earlier (August 2025) the median wait was 23 weeks, so waits have shortened by about 3 weeks.
- 47.3% 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.
Lee On The Solent has the second-highest pass rate of the thirty centres in the South East and one of the highest in the country: 63.2 per cent, thirteen points clear of the national figure. That is not a secret, which is why the wait is twenty weeks and the first genuinely open slots sit about six months out. Portsmouth is nine kilometres away with a shorter wait and a pass rate ten points lower, and that trade is the real decision for anyone booking here.
The driving is genuinely gentler than a city test. The centre is on the old airfield at Daedalus, the roads out are B-roads across the Gosport peninsula, and there is very little that is complicated in the first mile.
Drive the Lee On The Solent test routes before test day
5 loops from the centre, 49 km in all, with 11 roundabouts and 110 marked turns. Generated from the road network within 2.5 km of Lee On The Solent; not DVSA’s own routes, but the same roads.
Drive it before test day
Drive all 5 loops around Lee On The Solent 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 · 110 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 Broom Way8.5 km loop with 1 roundabout, 9 right turns, 18 left turns and a stretch of Vulcan Way.8.5 km · 28 turns · 1 roundabout
- Route 2 · via Newgate Lane East11.1 km loop with 4 roundabouts, 9 right turns, 8 left turns and a stretch of Gosport Road.11.1 km · 21 turns · 4 roundabouts
- Route 3 · via Broom Way9.1 km loop with 1 roundabout, 10 right turns, 10 left turns and a stretch of Rowner Road.9.1 km · 21 turns · 1 roundabout
- Route 4 · via Broom Way10.5 km loop with 2 roundabouts, 11 right turns, 10 left turns and a stretch of Gosport Road.10.5 km · 23 turns · 2 roundabouts
- Route 5 · via Broom Way10.2 km loop with 3 roundabouts, 7 right turns, 7 left turns and a stretch of Gosport Road.10.2 km · 17 turns · 3 roundabouts
The same access also opens the four test manoeuvres and eight roundabout scenarios: the two things a route drive cannot teach you.
There is not a single large roundabout in the area this centre tests in. Four mini-roundabouts, seventeen sets of traffic lights, and that is the junction furniture for the whole of the peninsula end of the routes. If roundabouts are the thing you dread, this is the centre where they are least likely to decide your test.
What replaces them is turning. One of the practice loops on this page has eighteen left turns in eight and a half kilometres. The estate roads off Bayntun Drive, Spitfire Way, Cherque Way and Broom Way are laid out in blocks, and a route through them is turn, observation, turn again. Junction after junction with no roundabout to break the rhythm is its own kind of tiring, and observation faults at side roads are what the pattern produces.
Gosport Road is the spine. It appears on three of the five loops, it carries the traffic between Lee, Stubbington and Gosport, and it is where the 40 mph sections are. One in five of the roads around the centre is 40, a high share, and the change from 40 down to 30 at the edge of the built-up part is where speed faults get marked. Chark Lane, Stubbington Lane and Grove Road are the connecting roads, narrower and hedged in places. Marine Parade West runs along the seafront and can be busy in summer with parked cars and people crossing to the beach, while Milvil Road and Eric Road are the residential streets nearest the centre and the usual place for a manoeuvre.
Waiting time for a test at Lee On The Solent
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 | 20 | 24 | 31 | 47.3% |
| Jul 2026 | 20 | 24 | 32 | 48.2% |
| Jun 2026 | 17.4 | 24 | 33 | 40.4% |
| May 2026 | 17.6 | 24 | 27 | 43.9% |
| Apr 2026 | 13.4 | 24 | 35 | 38.3% |
| Mar 2026 | 12 | 24 | 36 | 29% |
Pass rate at Lee On The Solent, 2008/09 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 | 8,502 | 63.2% | 64.2% | 62.1% |
| 2024/25 | 10,409 | 59.6% | 60.4% | 58.7% |
| 2023/24 | 12,557 | 57.5% | 59.3% | 55.4% |
| 2022/23 | 9,332 | 62.1% | 65.8% | 58.4% |
| 2021/22 | 7,137 | 65.6% | 68.5% | 62.8% |
| 2020/21 | 1,201 | 61.8% | 68.5% | 56.3% |
| 2019/20 | 5,840 | 55.1% | 60.5% | 50.2% |
| 2018/19 | 5,275 | 56.8% | 63.6% | 51.3% |
South East average 52.9% · GB 50%
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Test day at Lee On The Solent
The centre is the Richard Sainsbury Building at Argus Gate on Daedalus Drive, on the old naval air station at Lee-on-the-Solent. The site was RNAS Lee-on-Solent, or HMS Daedalus, from 1917 until 1996, and it is now Solent Airport and an enterprise zone. The runway is still live, with search and rescue helicopters, flying schools and maintenance firms sharing the site along with a college campus and the Hovercraft Museum.
For candidates that means a wide, quiet, well signed approach and none of the kerbside scramble of a town centre unit. It also means the address is long and the site is large, so find Argus Gate specifically rather than aiming at the postcode alone.
Motorcycle module 1 is conducted here. That is the off road module, and it needs a marked manoeuvring pad, so there is a proper area of hard standing on site rather than a few bays outside a door. Car tests, motorcycle module 2 and ADI part 3 also run here.
There is no railway station in Lee-on-the-Solent; the line closed in the 1930s. Everyone arrives by road. DVSA publishes no accessibility statement for this centre, so ring ahead if you need step free access.
What DVSA publishes about Lee On The Solent
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 3
- Wheelchair access
- Not published. Ring DVSA before the day rather than assuming.
Other tests at Lee On The Solent
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 Lee On The Solent
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 Lee On The Solent.
- 1Junctions - observation
- 2Mirrors - change direction
- 3Junctions - turning right
- 4Response to signs - traffic lights
- 5Control - steering
- 6Move off - safely
Getting there
The Richard Sainsbury Building, Daedalus Argus Gate Daedalus DriveLee on the Solent PO13 9JY
Directions in Google Maps · Check centre notes on GOV.UK
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Questions learners ask about Lee On The Solent
- Is Lee On The Solent an easy test centre?
- By the numbers, yes: 63.2% of car tests were passed there in 2025/26, against 50.0% nationally. Pass rates reflect the local roads and who takes tests there as much as the examiners, so treat it as a guide, not a guarantee.
- How long is the wait for a driving test at Lee On The Solent?
- In August 2026 the median gap between booking and sitting a test at Lee On The Solent was 20 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 Lee On The Solent driving test centre?
- Lee On The Solent test centre is at The Richard Sainsbury Building, Daedalus Argus Gate Daedalus Drive, Lee on the Solent, PO13 9JY. 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 Lee On The Solent do a year?
- 8,502 car tests were conducted at Lee On The Solent in 2025/26, of which 5,374 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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