Looking for Accommodation

I'm a mature student with a son. I study at SAE Institute in Leamington Spa and am approaching the end of my first year.

I need new accommodation after my current landlord has put me in a bad spot. I appreciate that I could continue to rent privately as I have been doing, but I just wanted to see what my options were as a mature student with a child. I have visited the halls close to my university as a backup option, but ideally, I would need somewhere with two bedrooms, but my uni doesn't seem to offer anything for mature students.

Many thanks for reading.

(edited 9 months ago)

Reply 1

Evelyn34

So I looked at Lemmington spa's website (assuming it is part of Warwick university according to google search that you are at? So please correct me if I am wrong) and I agree it is weird and ODD that it doesn't seem to anything "friendly" for mature students. Many universities I looked at has a range of student accommodation from the cheapest where you are sharing a room with another students or are single rooms but you share alot more than the usual shared kitchen like shared toilet/shower etc. Most also has studios that caters for mature students and it is weird that warwick/lemington spa doesn't have the latter.

Having said that. Have you looked at companies who owns buildings that has then been turned into studios or en suites for students. I know some places do have that. I think Northampton university (for example) the Northampton university OWNS their student accommodation so they can control the rent and certain things the student don't need to provided (that I am aware of) unlike certain companies who exclusively rents to students but as they are not owned by the university those companies require you to provide evidence that you are a student so that they don't charge you for council tax etc.

Maybe you could look at one of them? The only company that I know right this minute who does this (I know there are more but right this minute I cannot think of any others) is Unite. I only know because when I went univesity in 2007 -2010 I was looking at LJMU (Liverpool John moores) and they don't own their own accommodation but uses companies like Unite students but I also remember (at the time) I thought it was odd because I thought certain halls of accommodation was for LJMU but it looked like those are shared with UoL (University of Liverpool). I can't speak of Liverpool Hope. I just know UoL and LJMU campus is next door to each other and Liverpool hope was further. This is just one example. Thats my suggestion is to look for student accommodation and try get studio places.

Reply 2

Iamjim84

Original post

by Evelyn34

So I looked at Lemmington spa's website (assuming it is part of Warwick university according to google search that you are at? So please correct me if I am wrong) and I agree it is weird and ODD that it doesn't seem to anything "friendly" for mature students. Many universities I looked at has a range of student accommodation from the cheapest where you are sharing a room with another students or are single rooms but you share alot more than the usual shared kitchen like shared toilet/shower etc. Most also has studios that caters for mature students and it is weird that warwick/lemington spa doesn't have the latter.
Having said that. Have you looked at companies who owns buildings that has then been turned into studios or en suites for students. I know some places do have that. I think Northampton university (for example) the Northampton university OWNS their student accommodation so they can control the rent and certain things the student don't need to provided (that I am aware of) unlike certain companies who exclusively rents to students but as they are not owned by the university those companies require you to provide evidence that you are a student so that they don't charge you for council tax etc.
Maybe you could look at one of them? The only company that I know right this minute who does this (I know there are more but right this minute I cannot think of any others) is Unite. I only know because when I went univesity in 2007 -2010 I was looking at LJMU (Liverpool John moores) and they don't own their own accommodation but uses companies like Unite students but I also remember (at the time) I thought it was odd because I thought certain halls of accommodation was for LJMU but it looked like those are shared with UoL (University of Liverpool). I can't speak of Liverpool Hope. I just know UoL and LJMU campus is next door to each other and Liverpool hope was further. This is just one example. Thats my suggestion is to look for student accommodation and try get studio places.