Forest Street MOT Centre
Unit 5, Canal Works, Forest Street, Nelson, BB9 7PJ
DVSA-approved MOT test station in Nelson. Site number V105305.
Unit 5, Canal Works, Forest Street, Nelson, BB9 7PJ
The maximum fee for a class 4 car MOT is £54.85 and £29.65 for a motorcycle; many garages charge less. You can book up to a month (minus a day) before the current certificate runs out and keep the same renewal date. Take the registration; you don’t need the V5C.
Details are from the DVSA register published 30 Sep 2026 (source). Phone numbers and ownership change, so ring first.
Cars and light vans tested in the BB (Blackburn) postcode area failed 19% of first MOT attempts in 2025, 3.6 points below the 22.6% national rate. That’s from 268,571 tests.
What failed most often here, as a share of all tests:
| Area of the car | Here | Nationally |
|---|---|---|
| Suspension | 8.86% | 8.93% |
| Brakes | 5.72% | 6.1% |
| Lights and electrics | 5.28% | 6.95% |
| Tyres | 4.76% | 5.95% |
From DVSA’s anonymised MOT results for 2025, by the postcode area of the test station. The data has no garage identifier, so these are figures for the area, not for any one garage. An area with older cars fails more for that reason alone. Every area compared.
52 Norfolk Street, Nelson, BB9 7FG
Unit 3, 35 Norfolk Street, Nelson, BB9 7SY
Bradley Fold, Off Bankhouse Road, Nelson, BB9 7QJ
P & M Motor Engineers, Victoria Street, Nelson, BB9 7HL
Brook Street, Nelson, BB9 9PU