Leeds Accommodation 2012 Thread

yeah, hopefully it'll be fab!
I play oboe and nothing else...can't sing, play the piano or guitar like most musicians can!

History of art sounds like it should be interesting, is it like anylising the work of michal angelo or davinchi?

Hi Moonbeam, thanks for the info. I think Lupton is £79 this year but could be something to do with this gym membership thing.

I thought IQ wasn't in a good area? And are there not added bills into the price like internet and stuff? Cos i always look at these 'amazing' places and think they sound good until i read about extra costs and stuff and suddenly its like 90/100 quid

I'm still set on lupton tho cos of the grass and yeah i still like the sound of headingly even if it has over priced bars. I'm sure they'll do student discounts, nice for one drink or sumat.

I lived in Broomhill for a while in Sheffield and that had some nice pubs and a couple of over priced bars but i loved the area, hoping headingly will be similar.

I went to the open day and still have no idea where i want to stay.
Because im doing adult nursing they was like ..student nurses only stay at Lupton ...Oxley and the tannery.
I liked luptons price but its small and looks a little granny flatish. 0_0
So if anyone doing nursing drops by can you tell me where your thinking of staying :]

The only place that is clique and is not full of the ordinary student laid back yet sophisticated sorts is everywhere apart from Dev lol

Ludwig has a total point as to why Dev is the way it is. The building is nice but cannot be appreciated since its full of raving right wing mummas and daddas are rich or important students, or wannabe rich and importants students. Its a very immature bitchy infighting place just like any young Tory group is.

Wait until you meet the Leeds CF (Conservative Future), they all went for the cabinet positions and fell out over it jeeze its just the CF, its not a career. They had 100+ active members by October, there is only 12 active now after all the power playing ambitious backstabbing bitching. Lot of them live at Dev too, got sucked into this Cameron young and energetic BS, all changing Lib Dem now anyway the ones that can stomach they were wrong at least.

Charles Morris will be brand new it has not got the reputation drawing Tories in with its old traditions ZzzzzzZZz and tbh Dev kids are not rich they try make out they are, most of the better off students are actually your everyday joe just wearing a few labels who like to go out and club and party a lot. You would not really notice they came from rich families they just want a better enhanced living quality. These sorts atm live at Concept Place but that is due to change potentially next year.

Dev is the failed Cambridge Oxford kids pretty much, picked Leeds as it had a few old buildings and some resembelence in architecture to the grand old elite Unis, so they are very negative about the Uni and bitter about it all. Put it this way if you walk into a room of new freshers and they ask a short bit about you but automatically go onto your grades followed by "What does your mummy and daddy do?" then walk out calmly and run for your life and never mix with them again its social suicide LOL.

Hey, I went to the accom open day yesterday, I really liked the look of Oxley, can anyone tell me how long a bus would take to get to uni normally? and if people who stay there often go out in the city centre? it does seem a bit far away but I loved that it was green around and had the gym and bar... Also does anyone know if it is oversubscribed at all? And is anyone else thinking of going there? x

the music scene is in the city and the clubs

Thanks for the info Moonbeam, really helped me. Grateful for you giving your time. Will go for Charles then, hope its not overbooked lol. Although you did say international students get preference so perhaps will be lucky in that area.

Will also take your advice not to mix with those types of people. Cheers mate

Im thinking of firming Leeds for Sept, Ive been looking online at different accomodations and I cant make up my mind!
Ive been looking at some non uni accomodation as well, when do you think I should really go about securing somewhere? How quickly do places go?

You are being really helpful and making me think a bit more Moonbeam, but I really wanna know why you seem to hate Headingly/Uni accom so much?

Didi you live in Headingly/have mates there?

I have a mate who lives there now and loves it, says there are some great pubs,bars, house parties and the walk isn't too bad etc.

Also you're saying the music scene which I agree most of it will be and only a short bus/taxi ride away for me if i choose Lupton. But I'd say I'm a short walking distance to Brunnell Social Club which I'v loved and want to be near and the Headingly Picture House. I agree I could probs walk it from IQ too.
Also I don't see how if i live in Lupton I'll suddenly think 'Oh i know i wont go out to the amazing city clubs and stuff ill just go to the pub with my mates cos it's too far' of course Im gonna get involved and go to the union and city nights! Like all the other headingly freshers will!

I'm gonna have a look into IQ now, can you tell me how many students live there roughly? And guesstimate how full it'll be? I want to meet lots of people idealy and not be confined to my flat. And about living with Met students in headingly i'm not bothered and with IQ being private surely i could end up in a falt with Met students?
Also what's around it? Shops? supermarkets?

Also what other private accom is there to look at?

sorry for all the questions but you seem to know the score and i hope this doesn't sound arse-y i just want to know more

p.s. Thanks for the gym info, sounds great at first but actually isnt that great :/

p.p.s if you check out the map on their page there's nothing around IQ all the markers for pubs, and clubs, bands, ATMS, shopping are in Headingly. IQ isn't exactly city based either and whether I decided to live in Headingly or IQ I'd have to get a taxi into town cos a) it's not super close to town and b) it's not in a great area (or so i keep hearing) so i definitely couldnt walk

But for pricing IQ has really outdone the other private competition this year, so it balances those negatives. It is its own large gated community aswell though, there are 2 corner shops nearby though not the best. Im just not a fan of Uni Accom I guess, they are pretty poor kitchens now out of date and very beaten up over the years. But things like that bother me and I really appreciate a well looked after, well designed, well decored place, perhaps things like sharing and things like nice kitchens just are not important to you, its finding what your own personal priorities are, perhaps you dont care for a bigger bed at private accom and you dont use the Net as much so dont care if its a bit slower at Uni Accom.

Edit: Your mate has probably not lived in the city so does not realize how much more practical it is all round, not to mention has never thought indepth about it. Bars are great but you pay for them, Revs in city is as good as Headingly best places though, so city is not outdone on any front, therefore logic suggests it would always be the better option if you can find it within your price range. The walk is not bad if you dont have a choice, consider this for 2 weeks this year there was snowy ice, walking was truely difficult and damn dangerous, I saw people slide into the road and get hit by vehicles who could not brake abruptly or risk going into an oncoming vehicle. Buses were stopped from running and students were stranded in their residences, staff could not get into places so Sainsburies was undermanned and shutting early. Least I could walk to Uni relatively quickly despite the ice and safely crossing only 2 roads from Concept Place with most of my walk being non vehicle areas. (Through parks and squares etc down cobbled streets) Alls im saying is your mate know no difference, you could say the same for me but I have thought about such things and researched them and experienced them and done a lot of TSR work in line with Accom. But I merely help people consider things they had not when they go into a dreamy frenzy of fantasy about coming to Uni, its all rose tinted glasses at first you see , its great but you dont see whats wrong with it or Accom until your here for a while because sometimes the downsides are not noticeable or easily overlooked in your excitement, Im here just helping hoping no one falls into the traps lots of students do with their excitement and rose glasses. Im not here to sell you a property what have I to gain from it or act biasly... I guess you could say im bias privately but I have explained why, private are companies who are experience with students nationally and design, build cutting edge accom for students. The Uni is always lagging behind on design, innovation and experience with student accom, it hires small term contractors for cost benefit. These companies often have their own contractor company within its own company or one it always uses thats reliable and expert on student accom. The Uni Accom is only recently catching up now with Charles Morris expected to be just like IQ, Concept so on so fourth etc etc... (those mentioned earlier) but they are charging whacked amounts for it lol, because they can likely fill them since students just do it via the Uni and do not consider the other option of researching and considering private accom, its merely a choice of what is offered in the booklet they send out. Simply because of laziness I guess a few hours research can make things better value for money and quality for you, meaning a smoother year.

a little dig perhaps lol ? Things like 'sharing' are important to me which is why i dont mind sharing a bathroom with my fellow housemates. It's gonna be my first year as a student and I don't really mind the decor or if I have a super kitchen or leather couches or whatever. It's not my home, i wont live there forever therefore it doesnt matter to me.

On the IQ website it also says '£83, 50 weeks, (why cheaper money for more weeks exactly?) Restricted view ensuite room with 4ft bed and shared kitchen/lounge' So what is restricted view exactly? a brick wall?

I lived in sheffield in similar student accomm in Broomhill. A 30 or 35 min walk which didnt seem to bother me or anyone in the massive student village, everyone still went out to the main nights and the union nights and everytime we as a flat went out it was the the city clubs. A fiver for a taxi isnt bad at all! It's what i pay here and between the 5 of us its a quid each which i can spare i think haha!
I shared one shower between 5 and our social space was like you say a rickety kitchen but it was fine and cheap

And i'v seen your many many posts on devonshire halls. I think rah's will be in more places than just dev too, they'll want to be in james baillie and all the new places with en-suites that rich people can afford. I'm hoping Lupton will have some nice, down to earth, normal people living there and if not they'll be nice people who i can get on with no matter what they do or how much money they have or what their parents do (fingers crossed).

I dunno this whole leather couches, professional flat, en-suite malarky isn't for me, im cheap and cheerful, lupton has a party atmosphere apparently and even with no social space people just sit in the halls to drink and mix, nowt wrong with that.

I do understand what you're saying, great price for lots of facilities and 'nice-ness' i just dont think it's for me but I'll keep looking.

I don't think I'll need the 'good luck' but thanks anyways i'm sure i'll make the right decision in the end.

Try doing snow and ice in hilly sheffield! down and up massive hills with no grip! Then you know true pain! a flat place like leeds will be easy to cross in the artic weather haha

and i do appreciate all your research and stuff and i'm sure you've helped tonnes of people on here, i also think you should put some kind of guide out since it would be really helpful

I'm not coming to uni with rose tinted glasses what so ever. I'v been to uni before, i know what the pit falls are to some extent and i know what i do and dont like, simple as. This time i know exactly what i want to get out of uni. I still appreciate your help though so thank you.

what the score on bodington? i like the idea of a student community, with plenty of opportunity to socialise and make friends? also i wouldn't mind the bus and paying for it as i do now for college!

i was keen on dev, but got put off by the idea of being looked down on for being privately educated etc?

ive looked at the new charles morris and maybe ellerslie? also i loved how pretty oxley was!

i can imagine bodingtons a trek? but i can imagine its better than smaller accomodations closer to campus as i bet they are quieter.

i'm keen to be catered as i think this is good for the sociability side?

any ideas on what is the best accomodation??