Tuts,
Hope you've lots of money and patience
First port of call would have to be caa website thinks its
www.srg.co.uk tat site will give you a list of licencing requirements.
Initially I'd suggest seeing the CAA for your class 1 medical. Can only be done at Gatwick and costs about £400, but if you don't get the medical (which needs renewing annually with an authorised Dr) the flying is pointless.
You have two training routes, integrated or modular. in essence integrated you pay somewhere like cabair a large sum of money, go to them for about 12 months with nothing. earn no wages whilst you study and fly and then hopefully leave with a shiny cpl.
The other option if you need to earn whilst you learn is the modular course.
Start with ppl(h) requiring min of 45 hrs flying.
Then hours build up to 150 hrs. whilst hours building contact a distance learning school (main two are Bristol ground school or Oxford aviation training) study like mad and sit 13 ATPL theoretical exams.
When thats all done a quick 35 commercial course (inc night flying rating) and you have your cpl and then the hard task of finding work as a low hours pilot starts.
There are a lot of bits of small print concerning timescales etc that are too numerous to generalise.
I used BGS for my distance learning. Couldn't recommend them enough passed all first time 90%+ and am shortly to start my cpl
Is hard work but great fun.
Can't help with local schools sorry.
Searching this site will bring up lots re exams and exam preparation. Perhaps a similar thread on Rotorheads will get some answers from nearer to you.
Feel free to PM me if you have any specific q's.
Good luck
Q