DRIVING LESSONS IN LEWISHAM

Manual and automatic driving lessons in Lewisham (SE13, SE23 & SE6) cost the same: £38.00 per hour pay-as-you-go (£76 for a 2-hour starter session). Block bookings reduce the hourly rate to £37.00/hr for 10 hours (£370), £36.30/hr for 20 hours (£726), £36.10/hr for 30 hours (£1,083), and £35.90/hr for 40 hours (£1,436, saving £84). A £1.99 booking admin fee applies.

According to the official DVSA 2025/26 practical test dataset, Bromley Driving Test Centre (125 Burnt Ash Lane, Bromley, Kent, BR1 5AF) recorded a 52.9% overall pass rate across 13,228 tests, compared with the 51.2% Great Britain average. Manual candidates achieved 54.7%, automatic candidates achieved 51.0%, and first-attempt candidates achieved 50.9%.

The nearest active official DVSA / Pearson VUE car theory test centre for Lewisham (SE13, SE23 & SE6) learners is Sidcup Theory Test Centre at Planwell House, LEFA Business Park, Edgington Way, Sidcup, DA14 5BH (4.2 miles SE via A20/Southeastern). The official GOV.UK car theory test fee is £23.00, and every Rated Driving learner gets free access to our DVSA Theory & Hazard Perception App.

Bromley is closer at 4.4 miles and Sidcup is about a mile further east, but Sidcup publishes 58.7% to Bromley's 52.9%. Instructors tend to favour the centre whose routes they teach most, so ask yours which that is.

Yes, at the same price as manual. It is worth considering here because of the sustained climb from Deptford to Forest Hill, which is where manual learners lose the most hours. Bromley, 4.4 miles south east, passed 51.0% of 6,543 automatic tests in the DVSA 2025/26 figures, against 54.7% for manual. 4 instructor pages offer automatic lessons and say they mostly cover Lewisham. They are Muhammad Asif, Hasib Ayubi, Jonathan John and Bijay Singh. 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 SE13, SE23, SE6 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.

Lewisham, Catford, Forest Hill, Deptford, Sydenham, Brockley, New Cross, Blackheath, Hither Green and Grove Park among others. 14 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.

Yes. Say nervous when you book and we match you with a patient instructor. The residential streets around Crofton Park and Bellingham are quiet enough for a first few hours, well away from the gyratory.

Yes. Say refresher when you book. Hill starts and the Lewisham gyratory are the two things people most often want the hours spent on here.

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 night modules usually done out towards the Kent edge.