Learn to drive in West Wickham
Join the thousands of people that have learnt to drive with our automatic and manual instructors in West Wickham.
Although West Wickham is technically in the borough of Bromley, there are test centres in both the towns of West Wickham, and the town of Bromley. West Wickham is however often favoured by residents of Croydon area since the test centre on Canterbury Road in Croydon was closed a few years ago. The test centre itself is located on the parade of shops on Glebe Way close to the junction of Rose Walk. The West Wickham test centre does not have a car park, so you will often see many learners parking in Rose Walk and neighbouring roads. Although the test centre doesn’t have a car park, don’t think that you will not get asked to perform a bay park exercise. There are plenty of local public car parks around the area that the examiners could choose to use.
ELITE driving school have multiple experienced instructors that cover the West Wickham and Croydon area, including male and female driving instructors, and both manual and automatic driving lessons. Our instructors will help you track your driving lessons and your progress through the syllabus with our free Total Drive App. You’ll also benefit from free full access to our Theory Test Pro App to help you prepare for your theory test.
Throughout the course of your driving lessons your driving instructor will help you to be fully prepared for your driving test, and become familiar with all of the challenges West Wickham brings, from it’s compact residential roads, to its busy high streets, roundabouts and traffic light controlled cross roads. There are also plenty of rural country roads, as well as dual carriageways and the M25 motorway just a short drive away. ELITE instructor pass rates far exceed the national average, and we achieve that by constant in-house instructor training and continuous development, ensuring that you get the best possible learning environment to help you to develop into a safe, competent, and confident driver.
Each of our driving instructors have their own profile page to help you find the perfect instructor for you. You’ll be able to see a short bio about them, what areas they cover, what car they drive, plus all of their reviews from previous satisfied and successful pupils. ELITE have been established since 2007, and have a well established team of experienced driving instructors covering West Wickham and new by New Addington and Croydon areas.

West Wickham Driving Instructors
West Wickham Driving Lessons Testimonials

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“I took my manual driving lessons with Sue from Elite Driving and I would really recommend Sue to anyone! I really enjoyed our lessons each week, Sue made me feel confident and comfortable driving and her knowledge really helped me pass first time! Thank you so much Sue!”
09 January 2025

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What to expect from your driving lessons
Number of driving lessons
We’re often asked how many driving lessons will be needed before passing the driving test. The DVSA state the average learner takes around 50 hours of professional lessons, plus 20 hours of private practice. In reality most pupils that learn with ELITE take far fewer hours than this. However, it is impossible to answer accurately how many hours are needed, as it varies hugely due to many influencing factors. Firstly, everyone learns at a different rate. Some individuals are naturally gifted with coordination and car controls, and others need more practice to perfect the required skills.
Learning in a manual or automatic
Then there is the consideration of whether you are learning to drive a manual or automatic car. More lessons may be needed in a manual, it all depends how quickly you develop clutch control. Although once you have mastered the basic controls to operate either vehicle type, the majority of learning hours are spent developing the skills needed to read the road, plan, anticipate the actions of other road users, and manage risks on the road. So whether to learn in a manual or automatic car is a personal choice, and at the moment it’s around a 50/50 split which one people are choosing.
Learning in different areas
The area in which you are learning to drive and taking your driving test could also affect the number of lessons you need. Learning to drive in more densely populated towns like Croydon and Morden will have different challenges compared to somewhere more rural like Redhill. It’s different again in somewhere like Crawley, due to the volume of large roundabouts and high speed dual carriageways. The simple fact is that you should take as many lessons as you need to become a safe and competent driver.
What’s involved
All ELITE instructors will discuss your learning style, objectives, and time frames, and between you work out the best structure for your lessons leading up to a test. You will then be test ready, and confident to drive anywhere after you’ve passed the driving test. We provide a free Theory Test Pro App to help you prepare for your theory test. Plus we provide a free Total Drive App to make it simple to track your driving lesson bookings, get reminder notifications, track learning progress, and payments. There is even a free parent App too.