Key points
- Lessons across Solihull from £35/hr, manual or automatic.
- 10 hours £350 — £320 for NHS staff and students.
- Shirley test centre had the area's best pass rate in 2024-25 (58.1%).
- Part of DriveSQ — free Student Portal with every lesson.
SQ Driving School — part of DriveSQ — now teaches across Solihull, from Shirley, Solihull town centre, Olton, Knowle and Dorridge to Chelmsley Wood, Castle Bromwich, Kingshurst, Marston Green, Balsall Common, Meriden and every village in between. Manual or automatic, £35 an hour, door-to-door pick-up and the free DriveSQ Student Portal.
Driving lessons in every part of Solihull
Shirley
Shirley is where the borough's driving test centre is — on the A34 Stratford Road — so learning here means…
B91Solihull town centre
Learning to drive in Solihull town centre means Touchwood, the High Street, Warwick Road and some of the…
B92Olton
Olton sits between Solihull town centre and Acocks Green, with the Warwick Road (A41) running through it and…
B93Knowle
Knowle is a historic village in south Solihull. Its High Street is busy and narrow, and the roads around it…
B93Dorridge
Dorridge, next to Knowle and Bentley Heath, is a quiet commuter village with a station on the Chiltern line —…
B37 / B36Chelmsley Wood
Chelmsley Wood in north Solihull has its own town centre, and is minutes from Birmingham Airport, the NEC and…
B36Castle Bromwich
Castle Bromwich, on the north-west edge of the borough, is close to the M6 and the A452 Chester Road — busy…
B36 / B37Kingshurst and Smith's Wood
Kingshurst, Smith's Wood and Fordbridge sit between Castle Bromwich and Chelmsley Wood. Solihull College's…
B37Marston Green
Marston Green is a village beside Birmingham Airport and the NEC, with its own station. Airport and NEC…
B90Dickens Heath
Dickens Heath is a modern village south of Shirley. Dickens Heath Road itself appears on reported Shirley…
B90Monkspath
Monkspath, east of Shirley's A34, is a large modern estate with wide boulevards and roundabouts — Monkspath…
CV7Balsall Common
Balsall Common is Solihull's rural south-east, near Berkswell, Kenilworth and Coventry. Country lanes, the…
B94Hockley Heath
Hockley Heath is a village on the Stratford Road south of the M42, surrounded by country…
CV7Meriden
Meriden, between Solihull and Coventry, is a village known for its 'centre of England' marker on the green.…
B91Hillfield
Hillfield sits between Solihull town centre and Monkspath, around Hillfield Park and the Grade II* Hillfield…
B90Cheswick Green
Cheswick Green is a 1970s planned village built around a central green, south of the A34 and next to Blythe…
B93Bentley Heath
Bentley Heath lies between Knowle and Dorridge, around the Widney Road / Tilehouse Green Lane…
B92 / B26Elmdon
Elmdon sits south of the A45, beside Birmingham Airport (once Elmdon Aerodrome) and JLR's entrances on Damson…
B92Lyndon
Lyndon is the area around Hobs Moat Road, between Olton and Elmdon, partly bounded by the Grand Union…
B37Fordbridge
Fordbridge is in north Solihull between Kingshurst and Chelmsley Wood — and a ward in its own right since…
B36Smith's Wood
Smith's Wood is home to Solihull College's Woodlands campus and Smith's Wood Academy, bounded by the A452…
B37Kingshurst
Kingshurst is a north Solihull village with a busy shopping parade — and a village centre being rebuilt, with…
B92Hampton-in-Arden
Hampton-in-Arden is a village between Solihull and Meriden on the West Coast Main Line — right beside HS2's…
CV7Berkswell
Berkswell is a historic village by Balsall Common, famous for its 16-foot stone well and Norman church — and…
B91 / B92Catherine-de-Barnes
Catherine-de-Barnes is a canal-side village east of Solihull on the B4102, where the road narrows at the…
B90Tidbury Green
Tidbury Green is a small village in the triangle of Fulford Hall Road, Norton Lane and Lowbrook Lane, close…
B90Blythe Valley
Blythe Valley Park, at M42 junction 4, combines a business park with new homes around a 122-acre country…
B91Sharmans Cross
Sharmans Cross is a residential area between Shirley and Solihull, giving its name to the new Shirley East &…
B91Widney Manor
Widney Manor is south of Solihull town centre, around Widney Manor Road and its station, home to the Sixth…
B90Solihull Lodge
Solihull Lodge is Solihull's south-western corner on the Birmingham border, by the Stratford-upon-Avon Canal…
B93Copt Heath
Copt Heath is on the A4141 between Knowle and M42 junction 5, home to Copt Heath Golf Club (laid out by Harry…
B92Bickenhill
Bickenhill is the historic village at the heart of Solihull's transport hub: the airport, the NEC, the M42,…
B91Elmdon Heath
Elmdon Heath is about a mile north of Solihull town centre, centred on Damson…
Driving test centres for Solihull learners
Shirley is the borough's own centre; north Solihull learners usually book Garretts Green. Every guide lists the roads on reported routes, landmarks and the mistakes learners make. Compare them all.
Shirley test centre
9 roads, mistakes and landmarks.
B33 0SD · 42.0%Garretts Green test centre
6 roads, mistakes and landmarks.
B26 1EA · 41.6%South Yardley test centre
4 roads, mistakes and landmarks.
B14 5JA · 47.0%Kings Heath test centre
6 roads, mistakes and landmarks.
Every Solihull guide
Postcode districts, schools and colleges, workplaces, ten road guides and more: see every Solihull guide · Solihull road guides · Solihull prices · DriveSQ Student Portal · DriveSQ Instructor Portal.
Lessons for every learner
- Automatic driving lessons in Solihull — same price as manual.
- Nervous drivers, refresher lessons, adults and over-50s, evenings and weekends, semi-intensive courses, mock tests, Pass Plus and finding an earlier test.
- Intensive driving courses in Solihull.
- Motorway lessons on the M42.
- Student lessons and NHS staff lessons — 10 hours for £320.
- Learning to drive in Solihull: the local guide.
How lessons work
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Choose manual or automatic and enter your postcode below — a real person replies fast.
First lesson from your door
We pick you up anywhere in Solihull.
Track every skill
Your instructor logs 23 skills in your DriveSQ Student Portal after every lesson.
Test-route practice and mock test
On the real roads around your test centre.
SQ Driving School is part of DriveSQ
Lessons in Solihull are run by SQ Driving School and DriveSQ together — the same instructors, prices and Student Portal. More from DriveSQ:
- DriveSQ driving school in Solihull — Meet the DriveSQ Solihull team, the Student Portal and how lessons work.
- Solihull driving test pass rates 2026 — Every test centre near Solihull ranked, with what the numbers mean.
- Driving instructor jobs in Solihull — Teach with DriveSQ: pupils matched by postcode, Instructor Portal.
DriveSQ Student Portal
Every SQ Driving School learner — in Solihull as well as Greater Manchester — gets the DriveSQ Student Portal free, so you always know exactly how close you are to test standard.
- 23 driving skills tracked after every lesson
- Theory library and 50-question mock tests
- Test-readiness checklist and instructor messaging
DriveSQ Instructor Portal
DriveSQ is growing in Solihull and taking on more ADIs. New learners are matched to you by postcode, and your whole diary runs in the DriveSQ Instructor Portal.
- New Solihull learners matched by postcode
- Bookings, progress and messaging in one place
- Part of DriveSQ — an established Manchester driving school
Frequently asked questions
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Sources
- ONS — How Solihull has changed (Census 2021)
- Solihull Council — The Story of Solihull 2023
- passrates.uk — Birmingham (Shirley) test centre, 2024-25
- passrates.uk — Birmingham test centres pass rates
- GOV.UK — Driving test cost
- GOV.UK — Book your driving test
Published by SQ Driving School, a brand owned and managed by DriveSQ. Checked on 16 October 2026. Rules, fees and test centres change — always confirm on GOV.UK before you book.