Learn to Drive in Leicester with Bill Plant Driving School
Learning to drive in Leicester is about more than simply passing your driving test—it’s about becoming a safe, capable, and confident driver for everyday life. Bill Plant Driving School, the National Driving School of the Year 2025, offers flexible, high-quality driving lessons in Leicester, helping learners gain experience across a wide variety of road types and driving conditions.
Our instructors know Leicester and the surrounding area well, helping learners practise on routes such as the A6, A47, Narborough Road (A5460), and roads connecting Leicester with Oadby, Wigston, Glenfield, and the city centre. Lessons are tailored around Leicester’s mix of residential streets, busy urban roads, dual carriageways, roundabouts, and one-way systems, helping learners develop the confidence needed for everyday driving.
Manual and Automatic Driving Lessons in Leicester
We offer both manual and automatic driving lessons in Leicester, giving you the flexibility to learn in the way that suits you best. With lessons available during weekdays, evenings, and weekends, it’s easy to fit learning to drive around work, college, university, or family commitments.
Our instructors focus on helping learners progress steadily while developing safe driving habits that continue long after passing the test.
Book Your Driving Lessons in Leicester Today
Start learning with one of the UK’s most trusted driving schools. Book your first driving lesson with Bill Plant Driving School in Leicester today.
Why Choose a Bill Plant Driving Instructor in Leicester?
As the UK’s leading driving school (voted by pupils), we’re constantly striving to create lifelong safe drivers.
Every year we help tens of thousands of learner drivers pass their driving tests!
Let’s take a look at a few reasons why you should consider learning to drive with us.
With flexible bookings and affordable pricing for expert tuition, you can get started with driving lessons from £70 for a 2hr lesson, or secure a block booking of up to 10hrs to save money when you learn to drive in Leicester.
We have a high number of instructors who offer both manual and automatic driving lessons in Leicester. Whether you’re a fan of the gearstick or not, we’ll find a driving instructor that fits your preference.
If you need help on if you should drive a manual or automatic, read this blog and find out what’s best for you!
Whether you’ve got college, a busy work schedule, or other commitments, you’ll be able to book lessons with a driving instructor in Leicester, at times that suit you.
All our instructors are in control of their diaries, meaning they’ll tailor their availability to yours!
Top Tips for Driving in Leicester
Build Confidence on Residential Roads
Leicester has plenty of quieter residential areas where learners can build confidence before progressing onto busier roads. Areas around Evington, Western Park, Aylestone, and Knighton provide opportunities to practise manoeuvres, clutch control, meeting oncoming traffic, and safely approaching junctions.
Developing these core skills on quieter roads helps learners feel more comfortable when moving onto Leicester’s busier road network.
Prepare for City Centre Traffic and One-Way Systems
Driving through Leicester city centre introduces learners to more complex driving situations, including one-way systems, bus lanes, pedestrian crossings, and busy traffic lights. Roads around St Nicholas Circle, Vaughan Way, and Charles Street require good planning, lane discipline, and awareness of other road users.
Practising these routes helps learners gain confidence navigating busy urban environments similar to those they’ll encounter after passing.
Gain Experience on Dual Carriageways and Ring Roads
Leicester benefits from excellent road connections, giving learners plenty of opportunities to experience higher-speed driving. Routes such as the A563 Leicester Ring Road and sections of the A46 provide valuable experience with larger roundabouts, lane positioning, merging safely, and maintaining appropriate speeds.
Building confidence on these roads helps prepare learners for longer journeys and motorway driving in the future.
We asked one of our Instructors in Leicester the following…
Why is Leicester a good place to learn to drive?
Leicester offers learners almost every type of driving environment. You can start on quieter residential roads before progressing to busy city traffic, dual carriageways, retail parks, and larger roundabouts.
That variety means learners build confidence across a wide range of situations before taking their driving test.
What challenges do learners often face?
Many learners initially find Leicester’s city centre one-way systems and larger junctions a little daunting. Busy commuter traffic, particularly around Narborough Road and the inner ring road, can also require good observation and planning.
With regular practice, these become valuable learning experiences that prepare learners well for independent driving.
How does learning in Leicester help after passing?
Learning to drive in Leicester helps learners become adaptable drivers. By experiencing residential roads, busy shopping areas, dual carriageways, and complex junctions, learners develop skills that prepare them for driving both within the city and across the wider Midlands.
By the time they pass, most learners feel confident handling a wide range of everyday driving situations.
FAQ's About Driving Lessons in Leicester
Your comfort and confidence in the driver’s seat is our biggest priority. Whilst all Bill Plant driving instructors are trained to the same award-winning standards, we understand that some of our learners would feel more comfortable with a female driving instructor.
To make sure you can bring your best to driving lessons in Leicester, we’ll always try our hardest to find you a female driving instructor where possible.
At Bill Plant Driving School, we believe in graduated learning. This means that we don’t think good drivers are created overnighted. According to the DVSA, it takes the average learner driver around 45 hours of driving lessons, and 22 hours of private practice, to be ready for their driving test.
So that we’re confident in making sure that you’re ready for life on the road, we do not offer intensive driving courses in Leicester.
We do not have a set price for driving lessons in Leicester. All Bill Plant instructors are in control of their own diaries and set their own driving lesson prices. Therefore, the price depends on the availability of driving instructors in your area.
You can save money on driving lessons by making block bookings. Your family and friends can also contribute to your driving lessons now, thanks to our new top-up feature – allowing others to top up your account balance!
Driving Test Centres Near Leicester
*All information is correct at the time of publishing, June 2025. Information collected from DVSA’s Test Centre Pass Rate Report
40 Cannock Street, Barkbythorpe Road, Troon Industrial Estate, Leicester, LE4 9HT
41.1%
N/A
Tigers Road, off Saffron Road, South Wigston, Leicester, LE18 4WS
48.1%
Yes.
Ark Business Centre, Gordon Road, Loughborough, LE11 1JP
43.7%
N/A
Other Areas We Cover in Local to Leicester
Learn How To Pass Your Theory Test in Leicester
Support your driving lessons with our range of optional learning resources. From theory test revision and hazard perception practice to driving tutorials and manoeuvre guides, you’ll find everything you need to continue learning between lessons.
👤 Drive with Bill – 30+ Advanced Driving Tutorials!
🚘 Expert Video Guides & Interactive Quizzes
🚗 Everything in Learner Plus, Learner Essentials & More!
🚦 Hazard Perception Practice
🚗 Everything in Theory Plus and Learner Essentials
🎥 10 More Learning to Drive Videos
🎥 20-Test Prep Video Course
📦 Learning Manoeuvres Pack
🚗 Everything in Theory Plus – From DVSA theory content to essential skills videos.
🎥 10 Pre-Lesson Tutorials – Get a head start with expert guidance before you even start driving.
❓ Are You Ready for Your Driving Test? – A quiz to show you how close you are to smashing it.
🚗 Official DVSA Content – The gold standard for theory and hazard perception.
📹 How to Pass Your Theory Test – Video walkthrough + practice questions.
❓ Mock Theory Tests & Hazard Perception
🎥 Essential Skills Explained – Topic-by-topic video guides that make sense of it all.