Driving Lessons in Wandsworth

Lessons are £40 an hour across SW11, SW17 and SW18, 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 Wandsworth test centre. Mitcham, about four miles south, is the nearest and its current DVSA figures are at the top of this page. Morden and Tolworth are further south west and both publish higher rates.

It is worth asking your instructor. Tolworth publishes 53.6% and Morden 51.0%, against Mitcham's 47.0%, and neither is more than a couple of miles further from most of Wandsworth. The deciding factor is usually which routes your instructor teaches most often.

Yes, at the same price as manual. In the gyratory the hard part is lane choice and timing rather than gear changes, so an automatic lets the whole lesson go into that. Say automatic when you book.

No. Rated Driving is an agent, not a school. We match you with independent DVSA-licensed instructors working SW postcodes in the borough, 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.

Battersea, Tooting, Putney, Balham, Earlsfield, Clapham Junction, Southfields, Roehampton, Nine Elms and Furzedown among others. 16 of the borough's 17 postcode districts are shared with a neighbouring borough, so enter your postcode and we check who covers your exact street.

It is not, because your test is south of the borough, but you will drive it in lessons and you will drive it after you pass. Instructors build up to it rather than starting there, because short lane-change windows and constant bus movement punish hesitation.

Yes. Say nervous when you book and we match you with a patient instructor. The roads around Tooting and Wandsworth commons are among the calmest in inner London, and instructors will usually spend the first hours there.

Yes. Say refresher when you book. The gyratory and Clapham Junction 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 faster modules done south along the A3.

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 commons make the first hours efficient, and the gyratory tends to add a few later. 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, Morden and Tolworth 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.