I suppose I should clarify various things as this is always an argument. If your resident for UK tax then based on experience you can get a UK licence. If you are devoid of all connections to UK. No tax residence and no abode residence then at next renewal you should not apply for another .... That's the rule. Although residence for a DL isn't in the law....it just says basically nothing. So it's a little grey. And you would need and address to get it but that is nothing to do with residence. You cannot use an address outside UK. Also there's a minor difference for NI licences but pretty much the same.
not many people as it's not true. 😂 So much so if you're NOT resident you still need a UK licence to drive in the UK after 1 year of using your local licence. 1 year in the UK doesn't make you resident it's 5. Then we have the non resident tax, resident tax. I could go on about 16 days and 185 etc but it frankly makes my head hurt. What you do need is a UK address. If that's what you mean then you have 14 days to change it or it's an offence.