Passports if you don't travel

[LaGattaNera]

What do people do when they don't need a passport for travelling but when it is so frequently required for job applications, DBS checks, opening bank accounts, engaging a solicitor or estate agent?
Seems to be expected that one should have one. I last went abroad in 2012 and not particularly keen to renew current one when it expires next year. Would like to get one when/if I travel again (though not sure if that would take months and mean I shouldn't book a trip unless it is months in advance)
Anyhow just wondering what everyone does in this sort of situation?

apply for a new passport.
after windrush and without national if cards that's the only sensible thing

I use my driving licence. My passport expired 10 years ago and I have never replaced it.

I don't have a passport and never have. I've applied for jobs, had a DBS, opened a bank account and taken out a mortgage with just a provisional driving license. My fiancé has done the above with a full driving license.

Renewals usually only take 1-3 weeks so certainly not months.

Mine expired 2010, I've just had an enhanced DBS done, have started jobs, always been fine using my birth certificate and proof of my NI no. Windrush isn't really relevant if you have always been a British citizen..

Renewals take a couple of weeks and cost less than £100 for ten years.

£10 a year... less than £1 a month.

I would just renew it -- Added benefit you can book a last minute spontaneous trip whenever without having to worry about renewal turn around time.

I don't go anywhere really, last holiday was years ago, but I also don't drive so I use it as photographic ID when I need to.

Thing is so you are asked to prove identity in so many circumstances that I wouldn’t be without one. Especially as I have a foreign name - yes some people are that lazy!

In fact with the break with Europe coming and no one knowing what is going to happen I have sorted all documents including proof that we all have lived here for years as that was the problem with windrush.

I didn’t think that driving licences prove nationality just name and address. May be wrong?

windrush people were british by birth. just were not able to prove without passport or other supporting docs.

no, driver's licence and birth certificate don't prove citizenship.

My full birth certificate does prove British citizenship as it also has my parents details on there and that they were born in the uk.

that doesn't nececcarily prove nationality.

I bought my last one just to get crb check. Never used it. Expired a year ago. Not doing that again as such a waste of money asI have no intention of going abroad unless I win the lottery. I assume I can use other docs for next drb when due. Wish we did have id cards.

I have a fear of travel and different situations due to ASD and pretty severe anxiety, but I still have a passport because it is required for accessing places for my work as ID. It's not the end of the world having to buy one...and it's sometimes handy to have another form of ID, even if you don't have strict requirements for a passport ID specifically.

My family have lived here forever, I don't see why I should have to prove it. I don't have a passport and neither do my grown up children

I said this on another thread
I don't expect to travel again but after Windrush I'm renewing my passport

I do have all other documents but my parents came from another country, I'm not white, I have a forrin name etc. I can afford to renew though. If I couldn't I'd possibly just hope my birth certificate was enough.

Jobs always ask for it as proof you're allowed to work in the UK, I find.