DRIVING LESSONS IN HACKNEY

Hackney lessons are £38.00 an hour, manual or automatic, across E5, E8 and E9. A 2 hour starter costs £76, and blocks lower the rate to £37.00 for 10 hours, £36.30 for 20, £36.10 for 30 and £35.90 for 40 (£1,436). A £1.99 admin fee applies.

Tottenham Driving Test Centre, Selby Centre, Selby Road, N17 8JL, passed 48.9% of 9,844 tests in the DVSA 2025/26 data, against 51.2% across Great Britain. Manual was 49.6%, automatic 48.0% and first attempt 49.6%. It is where most Hackney learners take the practical.

Mile End (London) Theory Test Centre is at 324-326 Burdett Road, Limehouse, E14 7DL, about 2.2 miles from Hackney via the A11 or DLR. The GOV.UK car theory fee is £23.00, and our theory and hazard perception app is free to use beforehand.

Yes, and it is why local knowledge matters. Modal filters close large parts of Hackney to through traffic, and the layout across E8 and E5 changes from time to time. An instructor teaching the borough weekly knows the current arrangement, not the one from a few years ago.

Yes, at the same £38 as manual. On Mare Street and Dalston Lane traffic crawls and the hard part is watching everyone around you, which automatic frees you to do. Tottenham, 3.7 miles north of Hackney, passed 48.0% of 4,517 automatic tests in 2025/26, against 49.6% for manual.

No. Rated Driving is an agent rather than a school, so Hackney learners are matched with an independent instructor instead of a rota. We cover E5, E8, E9 and nearby codes and hold your payment until after each lesson. Every instructor is DVSA-licensed and DBS-checked, and all 27 skills are tracked.

It is demanding, and the skills carry over. Cycle traffic at Hackney's density turns mirror and blind spot checks into real habits rather than test day reminders. What needs planning in is faster road practice, such as the A10 run north to N17 8JL, because the borough has little of it.

Yes. Say nervous when you book and we match a patient Hackney instructor. After the 20 metres number plate eyesight check, the honest advice is to start on a Sunday morning, when the same streets carry a fraction of the bikes and cars, before moving to weekday traffic.

Yes. Hackney refreshers usually run as 2 hour sessions, and the commonest request is confidence around cyclists, often from drivers who passed elsewhere. If you need a retest, Tottenham charges £62.00 on weekdays and £75.00 on evenings, weekends and bank holidays.

Yes. Pass Plus is the DVSA's 6 module course for new licence holders, covering motorway, dual carriageway, rural and night driving, and some insurers reduce premiums for it. Instructors covering Hackney run it, though the rural and motorway modules mean heading north or east out of London.