Driving Lessons in Maida Vale, Little Venice & Warwick Avenue

W9 packs a lot into a small area. The A5 Edgware Road and the A404 Harrow Road give you fast, multi-lane arterial driving; the canal-side streets of Little Venice and Warwick Avenue give you narrow, careful, give-and-take driving; and the quiet avenues off the Harrow Road are where beginners find their feet. DVSA-approved instructors, manual and automatic.

A first 2-hour lesson is from £75 for a brand-new provisional-licence driver, £85 if you have some experience behind you. Put your W9 postcode into the guided booking and we show you the instructors who cover W9 first.

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ADI qualified · 2-hour lessons · Est. 2018

Driving in W9

What driving in Maida Vale teaches you

Three very different kinds of road sit within a few streets of each other here, which is exactly what a learner needs: quiet avenues to get the basics right, tight canal-side streets to sharpen your judgement, and fast arterials to test them.

Edgware Road & Harrow Road

The A5 and the A404 are fast, signalised, multi-lane arterials feeding the Westway and the Marylebone Flyover. Choosing your lane early, reading the signals and holding your nerve in heavy traffic are learned here. Both are red routes, so there is nowhere to stop and think.

The canal-side streets

Blomfield Road, Maida Avenue and the streets around Warwick Avenue are narrow, one-lane and often parked solid, with the old canal bridges to cross. Judging width, meeting oncoming cars and reversing with patience are learned here, all at low speed.

The quiet avenues

The numbered avenues off the Harrow Road and the residential grid around Elgin and Sutherland Avenue are calm, 20mph streets: the place to get the first lessons and the manoeuvres right before the arterials.

Your driving instructor in Maida Vale

You see who covers your postcode before you book

Put W9 into the guided booking and the instructors covering W9 come up first, showing the hours they genuinely have open. Choose your instructor and keep them from the first lesson to the test. Prefer to learn with a woman? Tell us on WhatsApp or when you book and we match you where we can: here is how that works.

Manual lessons

The licence that covers everything. Dual-controlled cars, clutch control practised on the quiet streets off the Harrow Road, and a syllabus you can follow in your own student portal, where your instructor can log what you’ve covered, though some instructors keep their own records instead.

Manual lessons in detail

Automatic lessons

No clutch to manage on the High Road and nothing to stall at the lights. Same £47.50 an hour as manual, and a popular choice across NW London.

Automatic lessons in North-West London

Where we pick up

Pickup across W9

Pick-ups are from your door, your work or your college. Not certain your street is covered? Send the postcode over WhatsApp and the answer comes back either way.

Maida Vale Little Venice Warwick Avenue Maida Hill Westbourne Green Paddington Warwick Estate Harrow Road

Nearby: Bayswater & Paddington · Notting Hill · Kilburn · all of West London. Prefer automatic? See automatic lessons in West London.

What lessons cost

One rate for W9, the same as everywhere else

The rate is £47.50 an hour, in two-hour lessons, the same in Maida Vale, Kensington or anywhere else. Blocks lower it: £465 for 10 hours (Bronze), £920 for 20 (Silver), £1,350 for 30 (Gold), £1,760 for 40 (Platinum).

£75

First lesson · new to driving

Two hours for a first-timer on a UK provisional who has not driven at all yet.

£85

First lesson · had lessons before

Two hours for a provisional holder who has already had some tuition, with us or another school.

£95

Standard 2-hour lesson

The regular lesson, equally for overseas licence holders adjusting to UK roads and for refresher pupils with a full licence.

You will find mock tests, test-day car hire and intensive courses (on request) on the full prices page.

Common questions

Driving lessons in Maida Vale: FAQs

How much are driving lessons in Maida Vale?

You pay £47.50 an hour, taken in 2-hour lessons (£95). The first is £75 for a total beginner on a UK provisional, £85 if you have had lessons already. Hours bought in a 10-to-40-hour block cost less each. Every price is on the prices page.

Do you cover Little Venice and Warwick Avenue too?

Yes. Maida Vale, Little Venice and Warwick Avenue are all on our list of areas, across W9. Enter your postcode in the guided booking and it shows the instructors who cover it first.

Which test centre would I use from Maida Vale?

There is no DVSA test centre in Maida Vale, or anywhere in central West London, so learners travel out. Mill Hill and Hendon (up the A41) are the usual choices, with Wood Green and Barnet also in reach. You book the test with the DVSA and your lessons are planned around the centre you pick, including a mock test there. See the test areas page.

Can I learn in an automatic in Maida Vale?

Yes. Automatics are the same £47.50 an hour, and selecting “Automatic” when you book brings up only the automatic instructors for W9. More detail is on our automatic lessons in West London page.

Can I ask for a female instructor?

Of course. Say so on WhatsApp or as you book and we match you to a female instructor where availability allows; when one is taking online bookings the wizard raises it for you. Our female driving instructor page.

Start on your own street in W9

Two hours around Maida Vale and Little Venice, with the instructor you chose. From £75.

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