Driving Lessons in Southwark

Lessons are £40 an hour across SE1, SE15 and SE22, and automatic costs exactly the same as manual. Ten hours is £389 and twenty is £764, which brings it to £38.20 an hour. The figures come from the booking system, so the price here is the price you book.

There is no Southwark test centre. Mitcham, about six miles south west, is the nearest and its current DVSA figures are at the top of this page. Wood Green north of the river and Bromley to the south east are the other realistic options, and Bromley publishes much the highest rate of the three.

It is worth asking your instructor. Bromley publishes 52.9% against Mitcham's 47.0%, but it is also two miles further from most of Southwark. Whether the extra distance is worth the difference depends on which routes your instructor teaches and how you drive.

Yes, at the same price as manual. In the north of the borough you spend much of a lesson stationary, and an automatic turns that time into observation practice rather than clutch management. Say automatic when you book.

No. Rated Driving is an agent, not a school, so you are matched with an independent instructor rather than assigned one on a rota. We cover SE1, SE15, SE22 and the surrounding codes, hold your payment until after each lesson, then pass it on. Every instructor is DVSA-licensed and DBS-checked, and you can ask for a female instructor when you book.

Peckham, Bermondsey, Dulwich, Camberwell, Rotherhithe, Walworth, Borough, Nunhead, Elephant and Castle and East Dulwich among others. 13 of the borough's 15 postcode districts are shared with a neighbouring borough, so enter your postcode and we check who covers your exact street.

Dulwich, for most people. The streets around Dulwich Village are wide and carry very little traffic, which is rare this close to central London, and instructors use them as the starting point whichever end of the borough you live in.

Yes. Say nervous when you book and we match you with a patient instructor. The southern half of the borough gives you somewhere genuinely calm to spend the first hours, which is not true of most inner London boroughs.

Yes. Say refresher when you book. Bus lanes, box junctions and the Elephant and Castle area are what people most often want the hours spent on.

Yes. Pass Plus is the DVSA's six-module course for new licence holders, covering motorway, dual carriageway, rural and night driving, and some insurers reduce premiums for it. Instructors covering the borough run it, with the rural and motorway modules done further south.

DVSA research puts it at 45 hours of professional lessons plus 22 hours of private practice, and learners who get that private practice are markedly more likely to pass first time. Few learners here have a car available between lessons, and some lesson time goes on reaching the test area, so expect the paid hours to carry more of the work. Your instructor will give you an honest count after assessing you.

It moves weekly, so check GOV.UK on the day you book. Two things stay true: tests can be booked up to 24 weeks ahead, and there is no official waiting list or cancellation list. Because the borough has no centre, check Mitcham, Bromley and Wood Green together rather than one at a time. If you already hold a date and want an earlier one, our free Driving Test Swap matches you with another learner who wants yours.