I got a phone call from the DVLA on Monday - my registration number had come through. So now I have a set of plates on the front of the van it’s all legal. I can drive wherever I want to now, though it is going to take a few weeks for the log book to come though, so I’m not off abroad yet. Sometime in the next few days I’m going to have to go to a weighbridge to see how much junk I have loaded into the van