commenting bc i’m in the same boat.
this isn’t Hild Bede but i went to a talk on accommodation at Cuths on one of the open days (I’m in Hild Bede though) and they said that they send out accommodation stuff around August, so maybe we should expect a similar timeframe for Hild Bede? i think all the rooms at Hild Bede are the same type though and the price for that type of room is on Durham’s website (i wanna say it’s around £200 a week? i may be wrong) so you can still plan ahead à little bit