Need a licence quickly? Intensive driving courses in Collier Row start at £1,229 for 30 hours, taught in automatics. The Goodmayes routes are rehearsed before the day. Locally the demanding bit is the Collier Row Roundabout, where Collier Row Lane, Collier Row Road, Clockhouse Lane and Chase Cross Road all feed one compact circle, and the narrow parked-both-sides run east along Chase Cross Road, and lessons are built around it rather than around a fixed syllabus. You are collected wherever your day starts in RM5, and the pick-up point is yours to change whenever you need to. There is no fixed timetable to fit around: Collier Row lessons run any day between 7am and 10pm, paid afterwards by cash or transfer.
If intensive driving course in Collier Row is what you're after, we cover the whole of RM5.
We'll collect you from home, work or college anywhere in RM5, and lessons run from 7am to 10pm, seven days a week. Everything else available locally is listed on the Collier Row page, from beginner courses through to mock tests.
Courses open behind the library, on Melville Road and the grid around Gelsthorpe Road and Riversdale Road, because it is the one part of Collier Row with no roundabout in it. Within the first hour you are on Collier Row Road heading east towards the circle, which is where most of the fortnight then happens.
Intensive Driving Course in Collier Row: The Short Version
The Collier Row Detail
Everything here funnels through one compact roundabout where Collier Row Lane, Collier Row Road, Clockhouse Lane and Chase Cross Road meet. On weekly lessons you approach it twice an hour. On a course you approach it thirty times a day, from every arm, until stopping on the circle stops happening.
The other half of the local job is gradient. Havering Road and the climb up Orange Tree Hill towards Havering-atte-Bower give proper hill starts, which flatter parts of east London never produce, and in an automatic that means learning to hold the car on the brake instead of letting it roll back.
What to Expect Around Collier Row
The middle runs the loop over and over: west out of the roundabout along Collier Row Road, left down White Hart Lane, left again along Mawney Road, north up Collier Row Lane to the roundabout. Chase Cross Road goes in for the parked-both-sides work, and Havering Road with the climb up Orange Tree Hill for hill starts, usually late in the day.
The standard is that roundabout taken at a steady speed from all four arms without stopping on the circle, including when the Chase Cross Road exit has queued back onto it. Hesitation is the local fault, and by the closing days it should be gone entirely.
The Collier Row Specifics
Havering has consulted on a collision-reduction scheme for the Collier Row Roundabout itself, which is a matter of public record and tells you what local drivers already know. Four arms feed one compact circle, and the exits queue back onto it. Chase Cross Road then parks up on both sides just after you leave, so the pressure does not stop at the give-way line. Both are worth watching on foot before you commit to a block.
Collection is by the shops on Collier Row Road, near the library. The first hour is Melville Road and the grid behind it, Gelsthorpe Road and Riversdale Road. Then the roundabout, approached from Collier Row Road first. Break in the Tesco car park on Collier Row Lane. The second half is Chase Cross Road east, then the climb up Havering Road towards Orange Tree Hill for hill starts.
There is no station in Collier Row, so a licence does most of the work a train does elsewhere. Parents on the streets behind the library book blocks, so do people on shifts starting before the 103 or the 247 is any use, and a fair number out here have already bought the car before the test is booked.
How to Pass First Time in Collier Row
- do the first roundabout sessions between ten and half past two. The pay-and-display bays on Collier Row Lane and Collier Row Road run half past eight to half past six with a three-hour limit, so turnover there, plus the Tesco and Aldi entrances, is worst either side of that window
- practise your manoeuvres on the quiet 1930s streets behind the library, Melville Road off Collier Row Road and the grid beyond it around Gelsthorpe Road and Riversdale Road: quiet enough to get them right, close enough to use often
- drill the mistake Collier Row's roads produce most: hesitating on the Collier Row Roundabout and stopping on the circle itself when the Chase Cross Road exit queues back
- book an hour immediately before your slot so you arrive at Goodmayes already warmed up
- take a mock test under real conditions before the day
A Second Angle on Intensive Driving Course in Collier Row
Collier Row has no station of its own. Romford is two miles south and everything else is a bus, so a licence here is not a convenience, it is the difference between a job being reachable and not. That is why courses get bought as one block: people want it finished, not spread across six months of Saturday mornings.
The doubt out here is coverage: an East London school arriving for a fortnight, then vanishing. We are now covering Collier Row properly, seven days a week from 7am to 10pm, and a block keeps one instructor from the first lap of the roundabout to the hill starts up Orange Tree Hill.
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Send a message or call 07706 876263. We will ask where in Collier Row you want collecting and what your week looks like, and work backwards from there. Before your first lesson, have a look at what passing first time actually takes.
Intensive Driving Course in Collier Row: FAQs
Is there enough variety around Collier Row for forty hours?
More than it looks. Past the roundabout you have the parked-both-sides run along Chase Cross Road, the Tesco and Aldi entrances turning across Collier Row Lane, the quiet grid behind the library, and the lanes climbing towards Bedfords Park. Add the run south down Collier Row Lane and forty hours fills without padding.
Do pick-ups happen in Collier Row itself, or down in Romford?
In Collier Row itself: by the shops on Collier Row Road, or off Melville Road behind the library when the bays on the parade have filled. Nothing is run out of Romford, so the hours you have bought start where you are standing rather than after a drive down Collier Row Lane to meet the car.
Who will be teaching me in Collier Row?
A DVSA-approved instructor, qualified and experienced, who teaches these roads regularly rather than dropping into Collier Row occasionally.
Do we go into Romford during the course, or stay local?
Both. The local roads carry the roundabout, the hill work and the parked-up stretch along Chase Cross Road, which is most of the syllabus. The run south down Collier Row Lane towards Romford and out along the A12 supplies the heavier traffic and the dual-carriageway driving, and that is where the closing sessions of a block spend their time.
Do you offer intensive driving course in Collier Row?
We do. Collier Row and the rest of RM5 are covered, we collect from Romford two miles south on the Elizabeth and Liberty lines, with Hainault and Newbury Park on the Central line to the west and the streets around them, and lessons run every day from 7am to 10pm.
Do you teach the roundabout before or after the estate roads?
Both at once, from around day two. Waiting until you feel ready wastes the point of a block, because it is the junction every route out of Collier Row uses and avoiding it means avoiding the area. We take it from Collier Row Road first at a quiet hour, then from Clockhouse Lane and Chase Cross Road in turn.
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