Driving Lessons in Greenwich

Lessons are £40 an hour across SE10, SE18 and SE3, 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 Greenwich test centre. Bromley, about six miles south, is the usual choice and its current DVSA figures are at the top of this page. Sidcup is a similar distance south east and publishes the highest rate of any London centre.

It is worth asking your instructor. Sidcup publishes 58.7% against Bromley's 52.9%, and from most of Greenwich the two are a comparable distance. The deciding factor is usually which set of routes your instructor teaches most often.

Yes, at the same price as manual. It is worth considering here because of the hills up from the river, which is where manual learners lose the most hours. Say automatic when you book.

No. Rated Driving is an agent, not a school. We match you with independent DVSA-licensed instructors working SE postcodes, and your money sits with us until the lesson has happened before it goes to them. Every instructor is DBS-checked before they take a learner, and a female instructor is something you can ask for when you book.

Greenwich, Woolwich, Eltham, Blackheath, Charlton, Plumstead, Kidbrooke, Thamesmead, Abbey Wood and Shooters Hill among others. 11 of the borough's 13 postcode districts are shared with a neighbouring borough, so enter your postcode and we check who covers your exact street.

Not necessarily, but the approach roads are unavoidable if you live in the north of the borough, and instructors will build up to them. A tunnel is a committed manoeuvre with no lane changes and no stopping, which is exactly why it is taught rather than avoided.

Yes. Say nervous when you book and we match you with a patient instructor. The residential roads around New Eltham and Westcombe Park are quiet enough to spend the first hours on before you go near the tunnel approaches.

Yes. Say refresher when you book. Hill starts and the Blackwall approach are the two things 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 module usually done out towards the Kent edge.

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. The hills and the tunnel approaches tend to add a few hours early on. 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 Bromley and Sidcup 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.