Appling for your provision licence
Most people can start learning to drive when they’re 17 years old. To apply for your provisional driving licence for a moped, motorbike and car visit DVLA online. It costs £34 to apply online and you’ll need to provide:

• an identity document unless you have a valid UK biometric passport

• addresses where you’ve lived over the last 3 years

• National Insurance number if you know it

Your licence should arrive within a week or so if you apply online. It may take longer if DVLA need to make additional checks.

Lessons

Anyone you pay to teach you to drive must be a qualified and approved driving instructor (ADI) or a trainee driving instructor. Instructors must display a badge in their windscreen to prove they’re registered with DVSA. A green badge if they’re a qualified driving instructor, or a pink badge if they’re a trainee

Instructors set their own prices for driving lessons - there’s no minimum or maximum cost. We suggest that you do not go for the cheapest you can find. Ask friends and family for reccomendations. Every instructor is different, so we advise that you take a few lessons with an instructor to make sure you get on well before considering buying into a package of several lessons - you don't want to be stuck with a bunch of lessons with an instructor you don't get along with. 

There’s no minimum number of lessons you must have or hours you must practise driving. Driving Standards Agency (DSA), suggest that you have around 44 hours of professional lessons to pass your driving test. This is an average figure, it’s important to remember that everyone’s different. 

If family or friend are offering to give you some additional lessons they must:

• be over 21

• be qualified to drive the type of vehicle you want to learn in, for example they must have a manual car licence if they’re supervising you in a manual car

• have had their full driving licence for 3 years (from the UK, the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein)

Theory Test

You need to take and pass a theory test before you can sit your driving test. Car and motorcycle tests cost £23. To book visit the .gov website here

We recommend that you do your homework before sitting your test. It will not only help you pass your theory test first time, saving you a money, but it will make you a much better and safer driver in the long term. 

We are currently offering you three-months access to the award winning Driving Test Success learning platform. Click here to find out more. 

Driving Test

You have passed you theory test and your instructor thinks you are ready to sit your driving test. 

Visit www.gov.uk/book-driving-test for the latest on all requirement and instruction. 

Advanced Driving
They say once you pass you driving test and get our on the roads on your own that that's when they real learning starts. Although it's a bit of a cliche there is some truth in it. You are going to be traveling on different roads, at different times of day and year, with a lot more distractions in the car like friends and family as passengers, music, time pressure.The list goes on and on.

To help you advance you skills as a driver we have teamed up with leading driver trainers DriveTech to offer you a bespoke advance driving session. If you have just passed, been driving for a few year this course if for you. 

Useful links


​​Visit drivinghub.co.uk for the low-down on driving on high speed roads