Finding a place to stay
A guide for new students Where you live in London Where to start looking will depend on... University of Property London, check out the ULHS area London Housing websites ...how much rent guide and “Top 10 postcodes”: (See housing.london.ac.uk). Services Find a Property you’re willing to findaproperty.com A useful book is Time Out’s yearly The ULHS have a database of housing Allows you to search by area, or tube pay publication, London For Londoners, offers including flats, houses and single lines and stations. which gives an overview of areas rooms (see housing.london.ac.uk) let Rents are dependent on both location in London from a resident’s point of by registered agents and landlords. Right Move and size of house. As a very rough view—a sort of tourist guide for locals. This database is password protected; rightmove.co.uk guide, a studio flat outside central as a prospective student, you should Apparently, this is the property finder London could range from £700 to be able to obtain the password. site that receives the most traffic £900 per month. More detailed ...how far information about the typical rents you The ULHS themselves have a Prime Location can expect to pay in different areas you’re willing to selection of 1-7 bedroom houses www.primelocation.com can be found at london.gov.uk/rents and flats for students to rent. These commute properties are owned or leased by the Find a Property, Right Move and Prime University of London, so essentially Location are quite similar and tend to ...what you want Check out Transport for London’s the University acts as the landlord and show mostly the same properties, but journey planner at tfl.gov.uk or Google manages the property. Keep your eye often, due to the different formats of from your local Maps at maps.google.com to find out out for when properties are listed and the sites, some are easier to search average journey times from different become open for viewing, some are as and navigate through. The information area areas. early as the beginning of August. provided about a given property may differ from site to site e.g. more London is a very large city, and each Another useful transport map site is Overall, the ULHS website is an pictures, floor plans, dimensions, etc. area has a distinctive character - you Mapnificent www.mapnificent.net( ) excellent place to get information and These three are very well known so will need to do some research to find which shows places that are within advice on renting property in London! they will generally have the most out which part of the city would suit specified transport times to a big agency listings, however, this you. particular location; the map is based means that properties there tend to be on public transport data, so helpfully slightly more expensive. For student reviews and more shows more distant ‘islands’ that information on many areas of happen to have fast transport links.
2 Finding a place to stay Finding a place to stay 3 Zoopla some examples: There are other private Halls of www.zoopla.com Letting agents Residence that are not owned or run Usually has fewer listings, but some spareroom.co.uk by UoL. Those that are registered different ones. Shows price changes. Websites can give you scope of what uk.easyroommate.com with UoL can be found on the is available from different agents. But flatmateclick.co.uk ULHS site housing.london.ac.uk, Loot often, when you contact an agent, a www.accommodationforstudents.com or can be searched for on www.loot.com property is no longer available or the www.accommodationforstudents.com. Some different and usually cheaper agents actually have more properties With your consent, we can circulate listings. It is not particularly easy to on their books that are not listed on your email address to our current search several things at once. Also websites. It can be much easier and students, who may have a room going available as a newspaper. faster to contact agents and register spare, or know of other students who your criteria with them. are looking for a housemate. Accomodation for Students www.accommodationforstudents.com ULHS have lists of agents categorised Student-centred accommodation site. by the area of London they Student Halls of Beware the Streetview maps: they can operate within: find more details at be wrong! Also includes listings and housing.london.ac.uk. These are useful Residence pictures of private student halls. in also informing you of how much an agent will charge. You will also see Halls tend to be more expensive Gumtree which agents are prominent in certain than private flats but offer many www.gumtree.com locations when you walk around the benefits and can be more convenient, General classified advertisements area in which you are hunting. especially for those who are new for everything from accomodation to London. The ICR does not have to music lessons. Ads from landlords, its own halls of residence; however, agencies and people looking for Find a with it being part of the University of roommates. Very widely used and London, students may apply to various frequently updated, but very poorly housemate UoL Intercollegiate Halls. regulated, and photos often don’t match the properties. Many of these websites dedicated to For more information on each of the property hunting also list rooms to rent UoL halls, visit halls.london.ac.uk. Many of these websites show links within flat and house-shares. There is a lot of competition for a to send a message to the landlord or place in halls so apply early! If you are letting company. Often, waiting for a There are several websites which are applying before you have enrolled at response is too slow, and many don’t specifically dedicated to students the ICR, please contact Registry by actually respond. Your best bet is to looking for housemates, or houses emailing [email protected] to organise just call them! with individual rooms to let. Here are your application.
4 Finding a place to stay Finding a place to stay 5 Additional information Getting around
proving your student status. You can Sutton station alighting point Housing advice obtain a council tax exemption letter Staff bus Behind the station, opposite Quadrant by emailing [email protected]. house. The London Student Housing Guide services (studenthousing.lon.ac.uk) has Council tax will be charged for any ICR / Royal Marsden alighting point fantastic and comprehensive advice period you are renting the property Inter-site bus Royal Marsden blue corridor car park. on all aspects of moving house and but are not registered as a student, A bus operates throughout the day living in London, including what to look even if it’s the few months between between the ICR/Royal Marsden sites Timetable out for when viewing property, help your programmes of study. in Chelsea and Sutton. Continuous shuttle: 06.30 to 10.00 with contract terminology, budget ICR to Sutton station: 1205 | 1220 | calculators, what to do when you Sutton alighting point 12.45 | 1320 move in, and staying safe. Short stay Royal Marsden blue corridor car park. Sutton station to ICR: 1230 | 1305 | 1330 | 1345 | 1405 The ULHS also offers services such as housing Chelsea alighting point Continuous shuttle: 16.00 to 21.00 checking contracts and legal advice. Close to the Royal Marsden Hospital Hunting for accommodation can take on Fulham Road. Approximate journey time time and you may require short term 5-10 minutes Council tax accommodation while you are finalising Timetable your housing arrangements. There are Sutton departures: 0615 | 0900 | 1100 | Council tax is levied on residential several reasonably priced options for 1230 | 1700 Planning your properties, not inhabitants. If all short term accommodation listed on residents of a property belong to the London Student Housing Guide Chelsea departures: 0730 | 1030 | 1300 | journey certain categories, which include full- (studenthousing.lon.ac.uk) and ULHS 1500 | 1830 time students, it will be exempt from websites (housing.london.ac.uk). Often, journey times are less paying this tax. This doesn’t apply if Approximate journey time dependent on actual distance and any of the residents fall outside these 1 hour more determined by which tube categories. General advice lines you use. Transport for London’s Sutton station shuttle-bus website (tfl.gov.uk) has a journey You may find the council tax monitor, If you need more information or A shuttle bus operates between planner which is useful when deciding found at the following website, useful: some specific advice, please contact Sutton National Rail station and the whether a property is conveniently londoncouncils.gov.uk Registry via [email protected], or ICR/Royal Marsden Sutton site. located. the ICR Student Committee via You will need to send a letter from [email protected]. You can include or exclude various your university to your local council, public transport modalities, as well as
6 Finding a place to stay Finding a place to stay 7 walking and biking. This website will be If you have a Young Person’s National a monthly card, so this scheme is well room for improvement, and some useful for you throughout your time in Railcard, you can register your Oyster worth considering. motorists can be actively hostile to London, especially as it updates you and Railcard together for more off- those on a bike. when services are down or delayed, peak discounts. (this is not available TfL raises ticket prices at the start of which is often! with contactless cards). January each year, but tickets can be Bicycle purchase loan purchased at current prices that are The ICR can, as an alternative to the If you are using a card to travel by train valid after the price rise, so the best season ticket loan, provide a loan Ticketing and your journey will take you outside time to buy the ticket is at the end of towards purchase of a bicycle and of the TfL zones, you will need to buy the previous year. equipment. The bicycle will be owned Travel zones a paper ticket between the last station outright and the loan is repayable over Transport for London (TfL) divides that the train stops at within a TfL If you start at the ICR in September, it 12 months. London into nine travel zones within zone and your destination. Be aware, is advisable to buy weekly or monthly its network; the price that you will too, that many faster intercity services tickets for the first three months of Please be aware that this isn’t the pay depends on which zones you will don’t accept Oyster and contactless your studentship. Then, at the end of same as the bicycle loan scheme be travelling across. It is important payment cards (often because their December, just before the prices go offered to staff, which provides a to note that you will be charged to first stopping point is outside the TfL up, you can buy a yearly ticket to start tax-based deduction; student stipends cross a zone, even if your start and network). on the 1st of January. This will maximise are not liable to income tax so end points are in another zone (for the benefit you get from the season students are not eligible for this. example, if you travel between Hoxton Travel cards ticket loan. and Canada Water on the London When you have decided how much Cycle hire Overground, both of which are in travelling you will be doing by public TfL provide a cycle hire scheme. This Zone 2, you have to pass through transport, you might consider it worth Cycling isn’t included in the Oyster ticketing Shoreditch High Street, which is in getting a monthly or yearly travelcard. system; you can use a credit card Zone 1, so you need to have a valid These can be purchased on an Oyster Cycling is becoming an increasingly for casual use, or apply for a key fob, ticket for Zone 1 and 2). card alongside pay as you go credit for popular activity in London, particularly which gives discounts for regular journeys outside your travelcard zones. with the introduction of TfL’s bike hire users. Bikes can be hired and returned Oyster and contactless If you live outside of the TfL travel system, and the Mayor of London has at many hire points around West, Make sure you have an Oyster card or zones, for example in Surrey, you will some grand plans for the future of Central, North and East London— contactless bank or credit card. These need to purchase paper tickets and cycling across the city. Cycling can be coverage in South London, however, is allow you to buy electronic tickets, travelcards. a cheap, quick and healthy way to get minimal. which provide the cheapest and around. easiest way to get around London by Season ticket loan Maps public transport, valid on all tube, DLR, The ICR offers a travelcard loan However, London is a challenging Cycling maps that cover most of tram, Overground and most National scheme, which allows you to borrow city for inexperienced cyclists, and Greater London are produced by Rail and bus services. Cards can also the value of a yearly travelcard and you should be aware that roads are TfL. You can find them at some tube be used on some riverboat services, pay it off on a monthly basis. A yearly often busy and have high levels of stations, or request them for free and on the cable-car in East London. travel card offers significant savings on air pollution, cycling infrastucture has online.
8 Finding a place to stay Finding a place to stay 9 Places where you could live The area has Where you could live Manor House, Green Lanes, Turnpike • The Barbican Centre: a theatre, Lane, Finsbury Park, Wood Green, gallery and cinema complex Places where you could live Seven Sisters. • Roman and medieval artefacts North London Highgate, Finsbury Park, Angel, Tufnell • Modern high-rise architecture Park, Archway, Holloway. Islington Northeast Places where you could live Together with Camden, this borough Harringey There are few residential properties in just north of the City still feels very While student-priced flats may be London the city, and those few, such as within central. Depending on the area you hard to find in the more affluent the Barbican estate, are likely to be live in, you will be able to reach the neighbourhoods such as Muswell City of London outside a students’ price range—so Chelsea site within 20-30 minutes. Hill and Crouch End, the busy and Also known as the Square Mile, the unless you are independently wealthy, This is largely due to the borough’s ethnically more diverse areas towards City of London is the historic heart you’ll be unlikely to find yourself living well-linked travel options both above the east of the borough still offer of the capital—as well as its financial here! and below ground. affordable rents. centre—and is still a city in its own right. A place of towering skyscrapers, Hackney Islington attracts academics, Head to Green Lanes to be spoilt stunning ancient and modern buildings A formerly poor area in the city’s journalists, writers, artists—and for choice on Turkish restaurants, including St Paul’s Cathedral, the north east, the borough of Hackney is students, although rents are relatively or browse the Afro-Asian and Polish Bank of England and the 1960s-built nowadays one of London’s trendiest high. The Sadler’s Wells Theatre, one supermarkets around Wood Green. Barbican Estate, the City is among the areas to live in. Neighbourhoods like of the UK’s best-known venues for Just a short walk away from Wood most stunning sights in London. It is Dalston, Hackney Wick and Shoreditch contemporary dance, and Camden Green tube station is the Chocolate also one of the more expensive areas initially attracted artists with cheap Passage with its antiques shops Factory, an up-and-coming local arts to live in. rents and old Victorian industrial and weekend market serve as the centre and creative workspace which spaces suitable for studios and borough’s landmarks. Moreover, it is regularly hosts concerts and poetry The tiny city (a walk from one side galleries. The first wave of artists have well known for its vibrant nightlife, its slams. An even larger concert venue to the other only takes 20 minutes) settled down and young media and wide range of restaurants and bars on is Alexandra Palace which overlooks falls into a ghost town’s slumber after technology professionals have joined Upper Street and for its Screen on the not only the borough but offers offices close in the evening, leaving them (the new generation of artists Green—an independent single screen stunning views across the surrounding it to its few thousand inhabitants— are heading south of the river, these cinema running since 1913. parklands and the entire capital. it can be a peaceful and strangely days). It is becoming an increasingly beautiful setting for a weekend stroll. expensive, though still affordable area, This area has This area has On a weekday, however, it resembles and has a reputation as a ‘hipsters • Lively restaurant and bar scene • Afro-Caribbean, Turkish and Polish an enormous beehive due to hundreds paradise’, which is perhaps a little • Antiques Market cuisine of thousands of people returning early unkind though not entirely undeserved. • Arts and concert venues in the morning to go to work. The • Parks and woodland Chelsea site can be reached within 30 The borough has many different minutes from here. faces. In the centre of Hackney,
10 Finding a place to stay Finding a place to stay 11 1901-built Hackney Empire reminds us retaining more of an edge than nearby Southwark’s riverbank landmarks Lambeth and Waterloo are fairly quiet of London’s Music Hall tradition while Shoreditch. are the replica Globe theatre and the and still have reasonably priced flats serving as a well-known music and neighbouring Tate Modern. Although for rent. London’s energetic gay scene comedy venue up to this day. A bit The borough includes much of the transport links south of the river are is centred around Vauxhall, so this further north lies the neighbourhood redeveloped Docklands region, generally sparser than those in the area—as well as nearby Kennington of Stamford Hill, the centre of the including West India Docks and Canary north, Southwark neighbourhoods and Oval—is popular with LGBT Hasidic Jewish community in London Wharf. Many of the tallest buildings in such as Bermondsey, Camberwell and people. and the largest in Europe. London are located on the Isle of Dogs Peckham attract a young, edgy and in the south of the borough. A part of arty crowd—probably due to the close Sutton can be reached within 45 This area has the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park is in proximity of Goldsmiths, University minutes from either Vauxhall or • Independent arts and theatre Tower Hamlets north of Bow. of London and Camberwell College Waterloo train station. scene of Art—and are generally well served • Large Hasidic Jewish community This area has by the Overground and national rail Further to the south, residential areas • Good nightlife with plenty of bars, • Lively nightlife and culture network. like Streatham, Tulse Hill and Clapham clubs and music venues • Interesting cuisine offer affordable accommodation • Historic docks and riverside views The borough has near to large parks and, particularly Places where you could live • The Shard, the tallest building in in Streatham and Brixton, a more Hackney Central, Dalston, Broadway Places where you could live the UK ‘village-y’ atmosphere. Brixton has Market, Hackney Wick, Stamford Hill, Docklands, Bethnal Green, Bow, Mile • Borough and Maltby Street food experienced some rapid social changes Stoke Newington, Hoxton, Shoreditch, End, Spitalfields, Whitechapel. markets over the past few years, so it is both Haggerston. • Dulwich Picture Gallery somewhat safer and more middle- class, but perhaps less vibrant and Southeast Places where you could live affordable than it once was as a result. East London Elephant & Castle, Borough, London Bermondsey, Rotherhithe, Peckham, This borough has Tower Hamlets Camberwell, Canada Water. • Streatham and Clapham Commons Tower Hamlets lies to the east of Southwark • Cinema Museum the City of London and north of the Southwark reaches from Bankside • Brockwell Park River Thames, and most parts of the by the Thames to Dulwich. The South London • Herne Hill Sunday Market borough are within 45-60 minutes Jubilee line on the Underground offers travel to the Chelsea site. Located good connections to Chelsea with Lambeth Places where you could live in the eastern part of London, it approximately 25 minutes journey time. Located directly opposite the Houses Vauxhall, Waterloo, Streatham, Brixton, covers much of the traditional East From London Bridge and Elephant & of Parliament, the riverfront of Tulse Hill, Herne Hill End in areas such as Bethnal Green, Castle, Sutton can be reached within Lambeth is the borough’s most central Bow and Mile End. These have quite an hour. area, offering a well-known view Croydon a fashionable buzz to them, while across the Thames. Despite being Located around 15km south of central, the neighbourhoods around Central London, the borough of
12 Finding a place to stay Finding a place to stay 13 Croydon provides good regular train Lots of students and staff working at moving here (the Northern line only Merton connections to Sutton. Journeys ICR’s Sutton site live in the town of serves the south of the borough in Merton’s best known district is there last between 15 (West Croydon, Sutton and elsewhere in the borough, Tooting and Balham, and the District Wimbledon, world-famous for the direct) and 25 minutes (East Croydon, including Carshalton and Cheam. lines serves Putney), as this area is tennis championships held every via Norwood Junction). well serviced with buses and trains. summer. The modern town centre One of the perks of living in Sutton has numerous pubs and shops and Recent as well as future building is being able to walk or have only a Districts close to the centre, such some affordable rents, whereas works in the area are largely due to the short train or bus journey to work. as Putney, Battersea, and Clapham historic Wimbledon village—with borough’s regeneration plan Croydon It is also reasonably easy to get into (which also lies partly in the Borough its nice cafes, bars and Wimbledon Vision 2020 which seeks to improve Central London, where train journeys of Lambeth) are popular with young Common—is considerably more the borough’s claims to be noticed as from Sutton to London Victoria take professionals working in the City, while expensive. a residential area as well as a retail hub. between 20 to 45 minutes. Southfield attracts parents with young children due to its good kindergarten For activities within the borough, Currently, the town of Croydon is This borough has and schools. Tooting is home to a large Merton Abbey Mills just by the banks predominantly perceived as business • Mayfield Lavender Fields South Asian community. of the River Wandle is worth a visit. district—the third largest after the • Vibrant town centre with good This 18th century silk-printing factory, City and the Docklands—due to its shopping and cinema Wandsworth has a lot of green housed in a group of historic buildings, high-density office blocks and luxury • Quiet villages space, including Battersea Park—the has been transformed into a charming apartments made of glass and steel. only large riverside park in central town centre with its own craft shops, Places where you could live London—and Wandsworth, Tooting weekend market, pub and restaurant. This borough has Carshalton, Carshalton Beeches, and Clapham Commons. The borough • Several large entertainment Beddington, Sutton town, Cheam, is great for the fitness minded, with an The area has venues Belmont athletics track (in Battersea Park), an • Wimbledon Common • Crystal Palace Park (‘shared’ by outdoor pool (Tooting Bec Lido) and, • Merton Abbey Mills four other boroughs) on the Putney riverside, numerous • The largest mosque in Western • A branch of IKEA Southwest rowing clubs. Europe
Places where you could live London The area has Places where you could live Croydon town, Fairfield, Selhurst, • Extensive green spaces Wimbledon, Morden, Merton Park Norbury Wandsworth • Low council tax rates Due to the borough’s considerable • Battersea Arts Centre Kingston upon Thames Sutton size, both the Sutton and Chelsea site The borough of Kingston is located on Originally a collection of rural villages, can be reached within 45 minutes Places where you could live the south bank of the Thames, around much of the borough of Sutton retains from parts of Wandsworth, particularly Balham, Clapham, Earlsfield, 20km southwest from central London. a village feel and relaxed atmosphere, around the Battersea and Balham Wandsworth Town, Tooting, Putney, The ICR site in Sutton can be reached though it has a more modern town areas. The lack of tube stations should Southfields, Battersea within 45 minutes from most parts of centre with a lively high street. not concern you if you are planning on the borough, and it is also accessible
14 Finding a place to stay Finding a place to stay 15 for Chelsea. Its role as a coronation Parliament. It also includes the city’s cafes as well as restaurants. Travel to Nowadays, the borough is probably centre where Saxon kings were entertainment and commercial hubs the Chelsea site in 10-20 minutes by best known for hosting the famous crowned is commemorated today by of Soho, Chinatown and most of the bus, tube, or bike. Oxford and Cambridge Boat Race; the Coronation Stone, an engraved West End, with high street shops, many rowing clubs are also based stone block now located in Kingston bars, restaurants, theatre and music Amongst the things worth a visit here. Other attractions include Fulham town. A few minutes further west, venues. in the borough are Portobello Road Palace, which features a Tudor across the river, lies Hampton Court Market in Notting Hill, the Royal Albert courtyard, and Kelmscott House, once Palace, the home of King Henry VIII. Westminster has very good transport Hall and the Victoria & Albert Museum, home to 19th century poet and artist links to both ICR sites: trains from both part of the so-called ‘Albertopolis’ William Morris. Royal connections aside, the borough Victoria will get you to Sutton in 30-40 around Exhibition Road. offers plenty of outdoor activities minutes while Chelsea is 25 minutes This area has along—as well as on—the River away by bus or tube, or 15 minutes This area has • Local theatres Thames and in its parks; Richmond by bike. Rents in Westminster are not • Luxury shopping • Shopping in Shepherd’s Bush Park, which Kingston shares with cheap but can be affordable in certain • Major museums and galleries • Riverside walks nearby Richmond, is about three times areas. • Portobello Road Market the size of Central Park in New York. • Notting Hill Carnival Places where you could live This area has Shepherd’s Bush, Hammersmith, The borough has • West End theatres Places where you could live Fulham • Good choice of cafes, restaurants • China town and Soho West Kensington, Earl’s Court, and shops • Royal parks Olympia, Gloucester Road, Notting Hill Ealing • Coronation Stone • Shops, restaurants and bars Gate, Bayswater Travel from here to the Chelsea site • Large South Korean community in by train or tube within 40 minutes New Malden Places where you could live Hammersmith & Fulham maximum. Ealing is said to be one of • Hampton Court Palace Pimlico, Paddington, Victoria, One of the more affordable boroughs West London’s prettiest boroughs Places where you could live Bayswater and Queensway, Soho in West London; tube journeys from due to its many historic buildings Norbiton, Surbiton, New Malden, here to the Chelsea site won’t take and heritage sites. It hosts Britain’s Tolworth, Kingston Kensington and Chelsea longer than 25 minutes. largest free Jazz Festival (each year London’s smallest borough is also one in August) as well as an antiques and of its most affluent ones, containing For many years, the district of agricultural market in Southall Park. West London many of the most expensive residential Shepherd’s Bush was mainly known areas in the capital as well as many for being home to the BBC’s television Up until today, the borough is best Westminster embassies. Renowned for its stylish centre in White City. However, since known for its film studios and the Westminster, London’s second and cosmopolitan atmosphere, the broadcaster’s recent departure, Ealing comedies from the 1950s. The city within a city, contains many Kensington & Chelsea is home to the area has been undergoing borough is home to the Pitshanger well known sites associated with private international schools, luxury redevelopment, and is now home to a Manor and Gallery, the former country the capital, such as Buckingham stores in Knightsbridge and Sloane large indoor shopping centre. home of Sir John Soane, Architect of Palace, Hyde Park and the Houses of Square and many individual upmarket the Bank of England. Additionally, the
16 Finding a place to stay Finding a place to stay 17 Grand Union Canal, opened in 1798 to In the south of the borough lies borough being home to Indian as well choose to live in some more remote link the Midlands with London, runs picturesque Regent’s Park, renowned as Brazilian and Portuguese, Caribbean parts of this area, which have poor right through the borough. Now used for its open air theatre and London and Irish communities. transport links but enjoy a different for leisure purposes, visitors can enjoy Zoo, while further to the North, atmosphere to nearby London a stroll along the canal, taking in the Hampstead Heath provides wonderful For shoppers, Wembley Market offers boroughs, with much smaller, less Hanwell Flight of Locks in Windmill views across London. Also within a good selection of clothes, jewellery, cosmopolitan towns in a countryside Lane, Hanwell. Camden is the British Library, whose food and bric-a-brac. Outdoor fans setting. more than 150 million items are stored should head to Gladstone Park, or This area has on 625km of shelves. alternatively, a walk along the tow path This area has • Quiet residential neighbourhoods of the Grand Union Canal might do the • Small and peaceful country towns • Lolts of green spaces Camden has good long distance trick. • The North Downs transport connections, with trains to • Long travel times into central Places where you could live Scotland and the North of England This area has London South Ealing, Ealing Broadway, from King’s Cross and Euston stations, • Wembley Stadium Northfields, Acton and to France and Belgium from St • Gladstone Park Places where you could live Pancras International. • Hindu temple in Neasden Epsom, Leatherhead, Banstead, Tadworth, Dorking Northwest This area has Places where you could live • British Library Willesden, Kensal Green, Kilburn London • Hampstead Heath • Live music scene Camden South of London A journey of 25-40 minutes on Places where you could live the tube link the Chelsea site with Kentish Town, Camden Town, Primrose Epsom and around Produced by Academic Services Camden, one of London’s liveliest Hill, Gospel Oak, Hampstead, Swiss The ICR’s Sutton site lies close to the on behalf of the Student Liasion boroughs and the centre of the Cottage boundary between London and Surrey, Committee. capital’s indie music scene. so for students based in Sutton, it Brent would be feasible to live in Northern Opinions expressed herein are The locks along Regent’s Canal, a Brent’s most famous landmarks are Surrey in the area around Epsom. not necessarily those of the ICR. labyrinth of boutiques and markets, the Wembley Stadium, the home of Journey times from here to Sutton Reasonable efforts have been made are the focus for alternative shopping English football, and the adjacent are around 10 to 30 minutes, and to achieve accuracy but it cannot be including fashion, antiques, music, Wembley Arena, one of the capital’s around 45 minutes to 1 hour to central guaranteed. arts and crafts. As a result of this largest music venues. Journeys to London, depending on local train popularity, rents in Camden Town as Chelsea by tube take 20-35 minutes. services. well as in nearby Kentish Town are no Rising above its urban surroundings is Rent in this area is likely to cost a lot Cover image credits longer alternatively low, but average if the Hindu temple in Neasden, possibly less than it would in London. Some Birdhouses in Hongdae by Adam Inglis not overly expensive. also a symbol for the multi-ethnic students and staff who have cars also (Creative Commons)
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