diff --git a/app/main/forms.py b/app/main/forms.py
index d9a35b72a..93ccd8a55 100644
--- a/app/main/forms.py
+++ b/app/main/forms.py
@@ -1253,7 +1253,6 @@ class ChangePreferredTimezoneForm(StripWhitespaceForm):
 
     new_preferred_timezone = GovukRadiosField(
         "What timezone would you like to use?",
-        default="US/Eastern",
     )