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Location: Warwick / Leamington
Spa,Warwickshire
Email: hello@drivewithissy.co.uk
Phone: +44 7812390153
Sydenham · Leamington Spa
Driving lessons in Sydenham, Leamington Spa are automatic and one-to-one, with pick-up from your address included, from £75 for 1.5 hours. Sydenham is an eastern suburb of Leamington, so lessons start on the estate roads and move onto the A425 Radford Road corridor once basic control is solid.
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Automatic, one-to-one tuition with pick-up from your Sydenham address included. The estate supplies the quiet start, the A425 supplies the main-road work, and the industrial estate to the east supplies the commercial traffic most learners never practise around.
Sydenham is an eastern suburb of Leamington Spa, largely built out from the 1960s onwards, and it has a genuine advantage for a learner: the internal estate roads are quiet enough for a first lesson while the A425 is a short hop away. You are not driving twenty minutes to find useful practice.
The area also generates the kind of low-speed complexity that observation has to be built against. The Asda store, the original parade of shops with its post office and pharmacy, the Croft Medical Centre and the SYDNI Centre all pull steady pedestrian and parking traffic, and the three schools — Campion School, St Anthony’s and Sydenham School — concentrate it at predictable times. Learning to read a school-run street is not a bonus skill; it is most of what an examiner watches for.
The industrial estate on the eastern edge adds something few Leamington suburbs offer: delivery vehicles, wider vehicles and yard entrances. That is worth an hour on its own, because meeting a lorry on a narrow road for the first time on test day is avoidable.
Covered as part of driving lessons in Leamington Spa. Issy is DSA-approved, has taught 500+ learners since 2021, and teaches automatic only.
A ninety minute lesson costs £75. Two hours is £90. Ten hours bought together is £450, which is the lowest hourly rate short of the intensive. Pick-up included.
| Lesson or course | Price |
|---|---|
| 1.5 hour lesson | £75 |
| 2 hour lesson | £90 |
| 6 hour block | £270 |
| 10 hour block | £450 |
| 30 hour intensive, includes practical test at Warwick Wedgnock House | £1,800 |
| Pass Plus, 6 hours | £300 |
| Test day fee | £150 |
Straight from the price list rather than an estimate. Blocks cost less per hour; the intensive includes the test at Warwick. See the full lesson prices.
Five roads and areas do most of the teaching in and around Sydenham. Road classifications are as mapped on OpenStreetMap.
The main road along the southern side, running east towards Radford Semele and west into central Leamington. Changing limits and a mix of built-up and open road in a short stretch. Where speed limit planning gets learned.
Runs past St Mary’s Church on the edge of the estate. Residential, with parking and pedestrian activity, and a useful link between the quiet streets and the main road.
Quiet enough for the cockpit drill, moving off and stopping, but with real parked cars and real pedestrians rather than an empty car park. The right place for the first two or three hours.
Campion School, St Anthony’s and Sydenham School. At drop-off and pick-up these become the most demanding low-speed environment in the area, which is exactly why lessons go there on purpose.
Commercial vehicles, yard entrances and wider loads. Meeting-and-passing against something big, in a controlled setting, before it happens by surprise.
Pick-up is from anywhere in Sydenham and it is included in the lesson price. That covers the streets around the shopping parade and the SYDNI Centre, the St Mary’s Road side, the housing towards the Radford Road frontage, and the roads near Campion School.
Not sure you are in range? A postcode is enough to get a definite answer.
Warwick, at Ground Floor, Wedgnock House, Wedgnock Lane, CV34 5AP. The GOV.UK listing shows car, motorcycle module 2 and ADI part 3 tests. It is the closest option.
From Sydenham the run to Wedgnock Lane goes west through Leamington and on into Warwick, so the A425 sections and the Leamington one-way system come up naturally on the way. What Sydenham learners usually need extra work on is the rural element — the single-track lanes within reach of the Warwick test centre — because nothing in the local area prepares you for a blind bend with mud on it.
For the detail, see Warwick driving test routes and the parking notes at directions to Warwick test centre. Budget against the DVSA figure of roughly 45 tuition hours.
Living on the edge of the area? Try the nearest neighbour instead.
The full Leamington area, including all six course types.
A dedicated page on automatic tuition locally.
Published Google reviews, from a 5-star rated business that has taught 500+ learners since 2021.
“Issy is a great instructor. He explained everything very patiently and learning with him was very easy.”
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“Patient, professional, and incredibly knowledgeable.”
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Yes, with pick-up from any Sydenham address included in the lesson price.
Yes. Pick-up from school, college or work anywhere in the Leamington area is included, which is what most sixth-form learners use.
Warwick, CV34 5AP, on Wedgnock Lane. GOV.UK records car, motorcycle module 2 (on-road) and ADI part 3 tests.
Automatic transmission only, in a fully electric vehicle. The resulting licence does not cover manuals.
DVSA guidance suggests roughly 45 professional hours and 20 practice hours. You will get a realistic estimate after a couple of lessons.
Yes. See Whitnash and Lillington.
A postcode and your availability is all that is needed for an honest answer on slots. If an instructor who will take you to the school-run streets on purpose is what you need, that first conversation costs nothing.
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Drive With Issy
1 St Catherine’s Crescent
Leamington Spa CV31 2LA
07812 390153
hello@drivewithissy.co.uk
Sydenham, Leamington Spa, Radford Semele, Whitnash and the surrounding Warwickshire area is covered. All tuition is automatic in a fully electric car; no pass guarantee is given.
