LIVING IN HALLS 2020/21

1 Welcome

STUDENT ACCOMMODATION Contents Congratulations on CODE being offered a place Universities UK (UUK) is the Your contract 01 to live in our halls of representative body for the executive Before you arrive 04 residence. heads of UK universities and is Rules and regulations 06 recognised as the umbrella group for Living in halls 12 the university sector. One of its principal This booklet covers all the information aims is to spread good practice Contact details 20 you will need to know about our halls, throughout the higher education sector. Other information 21 from the contract you accept to general advice on your stay. The Student Accommodation Code covers a broad range of issues It is important you read this booklet as relating to the management and it includes information on your safety quality of higher education residential and the safety of your fellow residents. accommodation, including health When you agree to your contract you and safety, maintenance and repair, are confirming that you have read this and the legal relationship between booklet. accommodation managers and student tenants. By following the standards and This booklet provides information about good practice guide contained within what you need to know before you the code, universities can ensure that accept an offer of accommodation from their students understand the standards the university, and what you need to applied to their accommodation, the know once you have moved into halls. university’s responsibilities and the better homes for Please read the information carefully students’ obligations as tenants. students as you will need to understand the nature of the contract you have with the The Student Accommodation Code university. was approved by Parliament in April 2006 and the University of Brighton This booklet also includes is one of many national universities COVID-19 information on what to bring to your that has registered its residential accommodation, including areas of accommodation as complying with the code’s standards, subject to annual The measures we are taking are consideration such as cars and parking. audits. referenced in your contract (2.1– The remaining section details aspects 2.6.6). of living in your accommodation such as welfare, health and safety and other If you would like to find out more about the code, visit We will notify you in your arrival services available to you. If you have www.thesac.org.uk. instructions of expected procedures any queries about any aspect of this and behaviours to ensure the safety information, please contact the relevant of all residents and staff working in accommodation service, either at our residences. Brighton or Eastbourne (details on page 20).

The Circus Street Halls, Kaplan Living Brighton, are registered under the ANUK Code, www.nationalcode.org. Your contract

A LEGAL RELATIONSHIP YOUR CONTRACT WHEN DOES THE ACCOMMODATION When you accept your place in halls The accommodation contract creates CONTRACT BECOME of residence, you agree to abide by a contractual relationship between you BINDING? the standard terms and conditions and the university and the obligations in of residence which form the legal the agreement are legally enforceable. This varies depending on whether you contract you have with the university. The agreement operates within a have accepted your accommodation This document is referred to as your framework of housing law, landlord online or signed a paper contract. accommodation contract. All student and tenant law and consumer law, all of tenants are required to enter into which place obligations on both you and If you apply online, the agreement an accommodation contract with the university. between the university and the student the university before they take up becomes binding when the student has: occupation. The university’s accommodation a) ticked the box on the university’s contract is a detailed document accommodation application website It is important that you read this guide that explains both the student’s and confirming that they have had the and the accommodation contract before university’s obligations so that it is clear opportunity to read the terms and accepting your offer of accommodation. and fair to both parties. The agreement conditions, and that they agree to is formed of six sections: them; and Students in halls of residence are • general obligations b) clicked the accept button on allocated a single study bedroom (clauses 1.01–1.6) the university’s accommodation (often within a flat) in a named hall of • coronavirus measures application website confirming that residence. The accommodation contract (clauses 2.1–2.6.6) they accept the university’s offer of is a single tenancy and contains rights • student’s obligations accommodation on the terms stated for students to use the shared parts (clauses 3.1–3.15.5) in the offer; and of the flat/unit in the hall of residence • university’s obligations c) paid the first instalment of rent as for a fixed period of time, 39, 40 or 50 (clauses 4.1–4.7) stated in the offer. weeks. This information is found on • other conditions the front page of your contract. Due to (clauses 5.1–5.17) If you have signed a paper contract, service needs, it is not possible to offer • termination of your contract the agreement between the university extensions to hall contracts. (6.1–6.14) and the student becomes binding • consumer protection and privacy when it has been signed by the student If you need accommodation beyond (clauses 7.1–7.10) and counter-signed and dated by the the end date of your contract, please university. contact the accommodation service International students should be aware at least 2 months before your contract that this agreement is made under terminates. It is not possible to extend English law, which may be different your contract but we may have a room to the law applicable in their own available in a flat with a longer tenancy countries. or in Homestay accommodation. The accommodation contract is You can view the terms and conditions an exempt student tenancy under of your contract on our website paragraph 8 of Schedule 1 of the https://accommodation.brighton.ac.uk Housing Act 1988. This agreement expires on the stated end date without separate notice being required (or can be terminated earlier under clauses 6.3 or 6.4 of the agreement) and the student has no contractual right to remain in the room after that date.

1 THE UNIVERSITY AS YOUR If you think you may have a problem CHARGES FOR DAMAGE LANDLORD paying your rent please speak to someone in the income office (01273 The university does not require a The university aims to be a responsible 642592) as soon as possible so that you damage deposit when you move into landlord providing safe, affordable can be advised of the best course of halls of residence. accommodation to its students. action to take. You can also contact the However, it is essential that the Student Advice Service (page 24) for The university will invoice for the cost university is able to apply to the courts advice on loans or grants for which you of putting right any damage caused. to seek legal redress, such as an eviction may be eligible. Where damage is caused anonymously order, when students behave in a way in a shared communal area the which is dangerous or disruptive to The university also has a dedicated university is entitled to charge each others, or when they fail to pay their rent Accommodation Income Officer whose student for a proportion of the costs. . or cause damage. role is to help students manage their accommodation payments (email Where accommodation has to be The university also reserves the right [email protected]). cleaned or decorated before it is fit to move a student to alternative to be relet, we will charge the cost of university accommodation, but only It is extremely important that you do not cleaning, decorating and repair to the where it is reasonable to do so. This ignore reminders about rent arrears on outgoing tenant. may be in circumstances where, for your account. The university is entitled example, there has been a fire, or to terminate your accommodation Items which need replacing as a result where a student or group of students is contract if payment is overdue by of reasonable wear and tear and behaving disruptively. Unless the reason 28 days or more and will pursue the decoration which is necessary as part of for the relocation is the student’s own outstanding debt using debt collectors ongoing maintenance are not charged behaviour, the university will try to offer and the courts. It is in your best interest to students. accommodation of a similar standard. to seek help and advice at the earliest Where the new accommodation is less possible opportunity. Where a charge has been divided expensive, only the reduced rent is between a number of students, any payable. If the new accommodation is student who has grounds for objecting more expensive, rent will be charged at Example of rent payments to the charge (e.g. if they can show the old rate (see clause 6.12). If your rent for university they could not have been at the accommodation is £150 per week for a university at the time when the damage 39 week tenancy, it would be payable in occurred) may make representations RENT the following instalments: to the Senior Accommodation Manager (Accommodation Services) Students living in halls are legally 1. £300 within three days of the who will fairly and impartially obliged to pay rent to the university accommodation offer being made consider the statements made and throughout the period of their (equivalent to 14 days rent) the evidence presented. Where the agreement (see clause 1.1). Senior Accommodation Manager 2. £1,864.29 on or before 13 October (Accommodation Services) is satisfied Your first rent instalment must be paid 2020 that a student could not have been when you accept your offer and before responsible for the damage, they will you move into your accommodation. 3. £1,842.86 on or before 13 January not be charged. The remainder of the rent is paid in 2021 three termly instalments. 4. £1,842.86 on or before 21 April 2021 It is important to make prompt payment and the university is entitled to charge interest at seven per cent annually where payment is late. If the university has to sue for non-payment, solicitor fees and court fees will be added to the debt claimed from the student.

Your rent includes internet, electricity, heating and water supply, cleaning of communal areas, buildings and contents insurance, repair and maintenance.

2 TERMINATING YOUR Finding a student to take your room STUDENT REGULATIONS AND ACCOMMODATION is not always easy. For example, if DISCIPLINARY PROCEDURES CONTRACT you leave during the first few weeks of term finding a replacement can be Information about the university’s The accommodation contract for halls relatively easy. However if you leave disciplinary procedures is contained of residence commits you to staying after Christmas it can be difficult to find within the student handbook which in halls for the duration of the contract another student to take the room. You you should read before accepting your length (39, 40 or 50 weeks depending could end up paying rent on a room place in halls of residence. It is essential on the halls). In certain circumstances, you are not using until the end of the that you read the handbook so that however, it may be possible to break this contract period. you understand your obligations and agreement provided that this has been responsibilities as a student of the agreed with the university and subject If you are thinking of leaving your university. to conditions set out in clause 4.3 of accommodation, or if you decide to your accommodation contract. leave your course, you will need to A breach of a university policy may notify the university. You will continue to be regarded as a breach of the The four conditions, all of which must be be liable for rent until another student accommodation contract, which may satisfied, are: takes your place. When you leave, be terminated as a result. In addition, a) the student has completed and please return your keys to the halls disciplinary action may be taken either handed in a hall of residence reception and make sure your room is under the policy in question or under termination form (available from the clean and tidy. Site staff will check your the student regulations and disciplinary university’s accommodation service) room and inform the accommodation procedures set out in the student notifying the university that s/he team if any charges are to be made for handbook. wishes to leave; and cleaning or damage. Please note that b) the student makes payment for, handing in your keys does not constitute The student handbook can be found on or puts right, to the university’s a surrender of your accommodation http://studentcentral.brighton.ac.uk in reasonable satisfaction, all breaches contract. the left hand section ‘New Student’. (if any) of the student’s obligations in this agreement; and c) a replacement student who is reasonably satisfactory to the university as a tenant and who is not already a tenant of the university enters into an agreement with the university (the university will assist the student in finding a replacement, but does not guarantee it will be able to find one); and d) the student pays a fee (£50 where the university finds a replacement student or £25 where the student finds a replacement student) towards the university’s costs of administration and inspecting the accommodation.

Conditions (b) to (d) in this clause shall not apply if the student is able to show that the reason for termination is a serious or persistent breach of the university’s obligations in this agreement or because the student is prevented from continuing their studies because of a disability.

3 Before you arrive

ELECTRICAL EQUIPMENT AND TRANSPORT Before you arrive SAFETY at your new All halls sites are very well served The power supply in the UK is 230v. by public transport, and are within accommodation please Most European appliances will operate walking or cycling distance of university with the use of an adaptor. Most campuses. take into consideration appliances from outside of Europe will the points raised below not work in the UK. • Cycling All halls and campuses have cycle and on the following The use of kettles, cooking equipment, parking facilities, and bike repair kits electric blankets and heaters in study and pumps are available, just ask at pages. bedrooms is prohibited as well as any halls reception for details. other equipment consuming more than 500 watts. Fridges or mini fridges in • Bus bedrooms are also prohibited unless on All halls and campuses are well medical grounds. Please ensure that you served by public transport. Local do not overload your sockets with too bus operators offer a range of ticket many appliances. options, which can include special discounts for students. Any faulty fittings and dangerous wiring will be removed and it is possible that • Train a charge will be made. Holes must Students can get a third off rail fares not be made in furniture or fabric to with a 16-25 Railcard, ask at your accommodate wiring. Please remove local train station for details of this all plugs from sockets if you vacate the and other discounted rail travel. room for any length of time. • Cars The university discourages reliance on cars and cannot guarantee parking availability (free or charged) on any of its residential or academic sites. Parking is restricted on most sites and you should think carefully about whether you will need your car.

Bringing a car to our halls of residence at Great Wilkins, Varley Park (Brighton) and Welkin Halls (Eastbourne) is prohibited as part of your accommodation contract (see clause 1.33).

Other sites require parking permits. For more information on car parking see page 7. For more information about site-specific transport please go to page 19.

4 INSURANCE WHAT WE PROVIDE WHAT TO BRING WITH YOU

The university has arranged for block The following is provided within halls; All halls of residence are furnished, but insurance of your personal possessions you will need to bring some items. while you are living in halls. Your cover Bedroom is automatically included in your rent • a single bed with mattress (3 foot), What you will need to bring: and lasts for the duration of your with the following exceptions: • photographic identification accommodation agreement. Optional (passport or driving licence) top-ups are available which will enable Circus Street, Cliffe, Firle, Highview, • basic provisions for the you to tailor the insurance cover to Coastland, Hillside, Upland and first few days, until you have time to suit your particular needs. Further Great Wilkins – a small double bed get to the shops information will be provided when you with mattress (4 foot) • washing powder or liquid, combined move in. detergent/conditioner for Welkin The Hub (premium room) and Welkin and Paddock Field (large room) • bed linen, including sheets, pillows ARRIVAL TIME – a double bed with mattress and duvets or blankets (4 foot 6 inches) • towels and tea towels Our e-induction allows you to book an • crockery – plates, bowls arrival slot, or you may be allocated a • wardrobe with hanging rail and mugs time when you should arrive at some • chest of drawers, desk and chair • cutlery and cooking utensils, of our halls. We request that students • wastepaper bin including tin opener and a bottle keep to the selected or allocated time • curtains or other window coverings opener slot so that students can check in with • desk light and/or bedside lamp • pans – a couple of saucepans, frying the minimum of delay and traffic can be • bookshelf and pinboard pan, baking tray, etc managed on site. • hairdryer and toiletries. Communal area • sofa and/or easy chairs If you decide to bring a television, you WHEN YOU ARRIVE • coffee table(s) will need to arrange for your own TV • dining table or breakfast bar licence. Quality of TV reception cannot Your accommodation contract will tell • microwave oven be guaranteed on our sites. For more you which room and hall you have been • two fridge-freezers information see page 18. allocated to. You’ll need to bring photo • oven with grill and four electric rings ID (such as your passport or driving (ceramic hob - Welkin) Please remember that you will be licence) with you on arrival day, as staff • toaster sharing accommodation with a number will need to see your ID before room • electric corded jug kettle of other students so try not to bring too keys are issued. • vacuum cleaner much. • cleaning equipment When you have received your keys, • TV aerial point in communal area you will be directed to your room by residences staff. They will also be able to answer any questions you have about the halls and facilities on site or nearby.

Once you have unpacked your things, make yourself at home and meet your new neighbours – don’t hide in your room!

5 Rules and regulations

ABSENCE FROM HALLS ANTISOCIAL BEHAVIOUR When you live in halls, there are certain rules If you plan to be away from halls for When living in shared accommodation, longer than seven days, please inform you need to be aware of how your and regulations that your neighbours and site staff. This is a behaviour affects others living with requirement outlined in clause 1.17 of you or nearby. Antisocial behaviour must be observed. your accommodation contract so that causes nuisance and distress for fellow These conditions you can be accounted for in case of an students and neighbours living in the emergency. surrounding community. Causing a are outlined in your nuisance or disturbance is also a breach of the accommodation contract (clause accommodation ACCESS TO YOUR ROOM 1.27) you have with the university. contract which is The university will aim to give prior One of the most common problems is a legally binding notice before accessing your room caused by high noise levels. Whether (clause 1.26). inside the halls or in the grounds around document. The the halls, noise levels must be kept to a rules help to ensure No notice will be given in the following minimum at all times. Noisy behaviour circumstances: will be regarded as antisocial and a everyone’s safety and • fire drill/evacuation breach of your accommodation contract wellbeing. • emergency repairs are required with the university and the university will • access is required to the communal take disciplinary action as a result. areas, i.e. kitchen or corridors You are sharing your accommodation • the need for repair (or any other The following are examples of antisocial with other students so it is important matter affecting the suitability of the behaviour: you understand what is expected of you. accommodation for habitation) was • music, singing and loud Please ensure that you are fully aware of reported by you conversation which is audible to your obligations. • concern about your welfare or those outside your room or flat wellbeing. • unruly behaviour such as shouting or The following rules are for your safety causing a disturbance in the street, and wellbeing and form part of your In these circumstances the university is often when returning to halls or accommodation contract. Where entitled to enter the accommodation accommodation late at night appropriate a reference to the relevant whether or not you are present. • parties - these are not permitted in part of your accommodation contract university halls of residence. has been made. The university will carry out individual room and communal area inspections Incidences of noise nuisance or other on a monthly or termly basis as antisocial behaviour are often fuelled appropriate to enable the university to by excessive alcohol consumption. The maintain standards of repair within the university does not accept this as an accommodation. excuse for inappropriate behaviour at any time.

Circus Street, Phoenix, Varley, Moulsecoomb Place and Welkin Halls are all situated in residential areas and you are expected to respect neighbours who may be elderly, have young children or have to get up early each day. The local councils in Brighton and Eastbourne also monitor noise disturbances and will fine students who persistently behave in an antisocial manner. Police action may also be taken against you.

6 Other examples of behaviour which is CAR PARKING AND For more information on parking, unacceptable and constitutes a breach ENFORCEMENT and to apply for a permit, please see of your accommodation contract are: the University’s parking webpage: • verbal or physical abuse towards Please be aware of the following car staff.brighton.ac.uk/efm/Pages/ other students, neighbours or staff parking restrictions on halls of residence Parking/Parking.aspx (clause 1.27) sites: • harassment or bullying Parking enforcement • criminal activity, such as the use of • Great Wilkins The parking control scheme at the illegal substances. See clause 1.32 Welkin Halls university is managed and operated of the accommodation contract and Varley Park by the One Parking Management page 8 of this guide for information Circus Street Hall (Kaplan Living Company. They operate to nationally about the university’s drug and Brighton) recognised guidelines set by the British alcohol policy There is no designated car parking Parking Association. • possession of firearms or imitation for halls’ residents at these sites firearms (clause 1.8) (except for registered disabled Any illegally parked vehicles may be • tampering with fire detection users) and therefore you must not issued with a £60 Parking Charge Notice equipment and the malicious bring a car to the site (clause 1.33). (PCN) or, in certain cases be removed. activation of fire alarms. See clause 1.7 of your agreement and also page • Phoenix Halls This is defined as follows: 9 of this guide for information about Moulsecoomb Place Halls • any vehicle parked in a space fire regulations. Paddock Field Halls reserved for a disabled driver These halls have a parking control that does not show a recognised scheme in operation because the disabled driver badge numbers of parking spaces is limited • any vehicle parked in an area that it and a parking permit is required to is not permitted to park, e.g. without park at these three sites. Holding a permit a valid parking permit does not • any parked vehicle which causes guarantee a space, it means that if an obstruction, e.g. a vehicle there is a space available, you can parked on double yellow lines, or park in it. on the pavement, or obstructing emergency vehicles attending site. At Phoenix Halls and Moulsecoomb Place parking in university owned For information on alternative transport carparks, including these Halls of please see page 19. Residence, is controlled by permit. You will need to apply for, be granted and pay a fee in order to park in these location

At Paddock Field, parking permits will be available from mid-week after you have moved into halls. Applications may be collected from halls reception. There are no parking restrictions at Paddock Field for the first two weeks of term.

Anyone who abuses the privilege of holding a permit will have their permit revoked and may be subject to the parking controls and charges.

Students who leave the university must return their permit to the reception office.

7 CLEANING DRUG AND ALCOHOL POLICY Aims of the policy • promote health, safety and Students are responsible for cleaning The university has a legal responsibility wellbeing by providing information, their study bedrooms and keeping for the health, safety and welfare of its advice and support the communal areas within their flat/ students, staff and visitors and aims to • inform students about drug and unit tidy and safe (clause 1.24). Refuse provide a safe, healthy and high quality alcohol use and misuse and recycling should not be allowed to learning environment. • provide advice on the support accumulate and bins must be emptied options available regularly. This includes addressing the risks • enable individuals with drug and posed by substance misuse, informing alcohol related issues to seek help Where students do not maintain an students of their responsibilities and • offer guidelines to all students and acceptable standard of cleanliness codes of conduct and providing help staff regarding their responsibilities and hygiene, they will be billed for and advice on request. All students have and the required code of conduct professional cleaning charges – these a legal responsibility to take reasonable • explain how misuse may lead to can be very expensive. For advice on care for their own safety and that of disciplinary or legal action. cleaning see page 13. others and to comply with this policy (clause 1.32). As part of this process, the university and the police will carry out periodic Who is covered by the policy? testing for illegal substances in halls The policy applies to students in of residence. In certain situations circumstances where there is a safety individuals may be subject to risk to themselves or others, or where disciplinary action, be asked to leave their conduct or quality of work and/or be reported to the police. The affects others or the reputation of the university has a legitimate interest university, such as students on university in protecting those at the university organised work placements, working in and its own reputation from the likely laboratories on research projects or as consequences of substance misuse. members of university sports teams. Full details of the Drug and Alcohol It applies whether students are on Policy and Mental Health Policy are university premises or elsewhere on available at www.brighton.ac.uk/ university business or study activities, current-students/my-studies/student- including premises managed on behalf policies-and-regulations/index.aspx. of the university by a third party (such as some halls of residence).

8 FIRE REGULATIONS residence. Care should be exercised • Storage of bicycles or any other whilst cooking with a wok, frying pan objects is not permitted within study All students and their guests are or the grill. Smoke produced from bedrooms, staircases, corridors or required to familiarise themselves with such cooking activities (e.g. burning communal areas. The university may the following regulations, the location toast) can set off fire alarms. Cookers remove any article which constitutes of fire appliances, fire alarm call points, and grill pans must be cleaned a fire risk. exit routes from buildings and assembly before using to prevent unwanted points. Fire and evacuation instructions fire alarm activations Fire alarms are found in each flat – please read • Barbecues are not permitted on halls Make sure you are aware of the them carefully. You will be required to of residence sites action needed in the event of a fire participate in fire drills. • Candles, joss sticks, tea lights, or the activation of a fire alarm. This electric bar fires, fan heaters, oil information is displayed on a fire action Students who do not cooperate with lamps or fireworks are not permitted poster in your flat. evacuation procedures will be subject to in the buildings university disciplinary procedures and/ • Activation of alarms (particularly Take time to familiarise yourself with the or penalties. those where fire doors have evacuation procedure. been propped open or windows Interference with firefighting equipment, kept closed) which result in the Fire drills will take place every term and detectors, doors, signage or alarms is a unnecessary attendance of the fire you must respond to them promptly. criminal offence. Failure to comply with brigade may result in disciplinary the regulations or with instructions from procedures. An equipment Fire safety a member of university or emergency reinstatement charge will be You are advised to watch the university’s service staff will be considered a serious levied in the event of malicious or fire safety video. This can be found on infringement and render the offender preventable and unwanted alarm studentcentral.brighton.ac.uk (look for liable to prosecution, penalties and/or activation. Such charges may be ‘safety and security’, under ‘My Student to have their accommodation contract made against an individual, flat or Life’. terminated. block. In addition, the fire brigade may seek to prosecute the individual Fire charges Hallways and Fire Exit routes must be responsible for malicious activation You will be charged for the following kept clear at all times. Anything that • Residents are not permitted to bring breaches of fire regulations: could impede a safe exit or increase the any furniture into halls of residence • Tampering with fire safety fire loading is prohibited. This includes accommodation. Any furniture equipment (i.e. covering smoke items such as posters and decorations. which is not the university’s property detectors, removing fire safety signs, Items may be removed by staff if left in will be removed at the resident’s misuse of fire extinguishers or fire these areas. expense. Any defects with university blankets furniture or fittings should be • Avoidable or malicious fire alarm The following regulations must be reported to site staff immediately activation observed at all times: • Electrical circuits must not be • Propping open of fire doors • Fire doors, which include your overloaded. Only a four-way oblong • Smoking in a designated no smoking kitchen, bedroom and flat entrance extension lead with neon indication area doors, must be kept closed and and an in-line fuse rated at five not be propped open. Students amps, of the Duraplug make or must also not affix anything, such as similar, may be used (cubic type posters and photos, to the doors as adaptors and coiled extension leads this will breach fire regulations and are prohibited) increase fire risk • Any activity which could place • Safety signs must not be covered, other people or property at risk is removed or defaced in any way forbidden • Heat/smoke detectors must not be • Fire drills and fire alarm activations covered or interfered with in any way must be responded to promptly by • The maximum number of persons all in residence permitted to gather at any time in a • Cars and motorcycles must not be study bedroom is six parked in locations which would • No cooking or heating of liquids impede access for emergency is permitted to take place in study vehicles. If the car park is full, bedrooms. Use of chip pans or vehicles must be parked off site similar is prohibited within halls of

9 HEALTH AND SAFETY INVENTORY MAINTENANCE AND REPAIRS

The university aims to protect the An inventory is a list of the contents and The university is responsible for health, safety and welfare of students condition of a room or property when the repair and maintenance of the and staff. Some policies on safety are set you move in. You will find an inventory in accommodation it manages at Varley, out in the student handbook (see page your study bedroom. Phoenix Brewery and Moulsecoomb 3) and others are available from the If you see any discrepancies please Place. Several of our halls of residence departments in the university to which record as much detail as possible. If you are managed on behalf of the university they apply. can, take photographs. by Kaplan Living (Circus Street), L&Q (Paddock Field), Sanctuary Students Every student has a duty to take Please complete it fully and return (Great Wilkins) and by Optivo in reasonable care for the health and to site staff within 24 hours of arrival Eastbourne (Welkin Halls). safety of themselves and of others (clause 1.15). If you do not return the who may be affected by their acts or inventory, you may be held responsible The university or housing associations omissions. for damage not noted. managing halls can only repair faults once they are aware of them. You should We strongly recommend that you wash Contact a member of staff if you have notify the site office within 24 hours of your hands well whenever you leave not received an inventory when you becoming aware of any problem (clause your Accommodation and return to it arrive. 1.20). Any defects which you consider – even if you are only going to another to be potentially dangerous must be part of the building. immediately reported to site staff. For less serious faults, please complete a All students are required to maintain a maintenance form at halls reception. safe environment within their flat and bedroom for staff and contractors who You should ensure that when necessary may have to enter the accommodation. repairs are reported, a full description of For example, this means students are the fault is given. For example, to mend responsible for ensuring that cables to a broken window the university may personal electrical equipment are safe send round a glazier, but if the window and are not left trailing. It is a condition just won’t open, it might be more of the accommodation contract that a appropriate to send a joiner. student will not put the health and safety of others at risk (clause 1.4). In serious Repair response times: cases, the accommodation contract may be terminated before its expiry date. • Emergency repairs Repairs which are necessary to Hazardous chemicals or biological avoid a danger to a student’s health substances must not be brought into the and wellbeing or to avoid serious residence sites (prescribed medicines damage to the accommodation or are allowed). Mercury thermometers are a student’s belongings (e.g. a burst not allowed on the premises. pipe): within 24 hours of being reported. Students are responsible for the safe • Urgent repairs moving and handling of all luggage Repairs which, if not carried out, and belongings. University staff will not would significantly affect the assist in the handling of excessive loads. comfort and convenience of the tenant(s): within five working days of being reported. • Non-urgent repairs Repairs which do not fall into the above two categories: within 28 working days.

10 PETS SMOKING POLICY SUBLETTING

No animals may be kept in halls of It is against the law to smoke in virtually The subletting of rooms is strictly residence (clause 1.30) unless used as all enclosed public places, workplaces, prohibited (clause 1.37). This includes an aid for a disabled person. public and work vehicles. Failure to allowing the use of, or sharing your comply with the law is a criminal offence room with relatives, friends, boyfriends and carries financial penalties. The or girlfriends. SAFETY AWARENESS law clarifies that ‘smoking’ refers to smoking tobacco or anything which Residents should keep their study contains tobacco, or smoking any other VISITORS bedroom locked and windows closed substance. when unoccupied (clause 1.10). It is also You are responsible for the behaviour your responsibility to ensure that the Restrictions on smoking at the university of any visitor you invite into your front door to your flat/unit is locked. Smoking is prohibited in the following accommodation (clause 1.28). university locations: Do not let anyone into your building • anywhere in university and Students’ Daytime visitors are permitted in halls of or home if you don’t know them. If you Union buildings or vehicles residence, subject to the fire regulations do and they cause a disturbance or • all areas of university halls of that there should be no more than six damage, you will be held responsible. residence, including private people in any study bedroom at any one Members of university staff carry bedrooms time. identification cards and should identify • within 10 metres of any entrance, themselves before entering a building. openable window or vent on One overnight guest is permitted to stay university buildings for a maximum of two nights in a period Occasionally you may be asked by a • all external areas of the university, of seven nights. The guest must: member of university staff to produce unless in a designated smoking area. • be over the age of 18 identification (e.g. Unicard). Please • agreed and acknowledged by site cooperate – it is not an invasion of All halls of residence are designated staff privacy and is in the interest of all as non-smoking areas of the university. • signed in at reception residents to dissuade intruders. There Students who have an accommodation • issued with a visitor pass are CCTV security cameras at some halls contract with the university agree to sites and a security team on call at all comply with the university’s policy on You must be present on site or in sites. smoking (clause 1.31). residence during the duration of your guest’s stay. If you discover anyone who you believe Breaches of policy will constitute an to be trespassing or presenting a offence under the university’s student This regulation is strictly enforced. potential threat, please report them to disciplinary procedures. To allow a guest to stay at the site staff. accommodation on more than an More information and advice about occasional basis will be regarded the university’s smoking policy can be as subletting and is in breach of the found at www.brighton.ac.uk/current- accommodation contract. students/my-studies/student-policies- and-regulations/index.aspx. You must not have anyone visit you after 10pm if they have not signed in at the halls reception.

11 Living in halls

BANKING FACILITIES C-CHANGE Here you will find guidance for living • Welkin Halls The University of Brighton is proud to There is a cash machine located say that sustainability is one of its core in halls - from how to in the reception of Welkin Halls, goals. This is highlighted through the available 24 hours. There are limited People and Planet’s Green League, get connected to the banking facilities close by in Meads where the university scored a ‘first class’ university network to village. Further banking facilities are award, ranking twenty-first out of all the available in the town centre. universities in the country in 2014. how you will receive • Moulsecoomb Place c-change is the university’s internal your post. A cash machine is situated in campaign aimed at helping students to the Cockcroft building close to come together to reduce your impact Moulsecoomb Place. upon the environment, while still having There is also a great time living at the university. information about the • Paddock Field and Look out for c-change competitions, Great Wilkins information and volunteering staff you will meet There is a cash machine located on opportunities while during your time in the Falmer campus next to the Hive halls. on site and other (Students Union café) by the bus university services you stop. The closest banking facilities at Here are a few simple things you can do Falmer are located on the University to support the c-change campaign and might want to access. of Sussex campus nearby, which has be more sustainable while living in halls: a Barclays, HSBC and various other • power down - turn off anything cash machines. that uses power when not needed. Games consoles, PCs and lights are • Phoenix particularly energy-guzzling! There are branches of all the main • travel sustainably - have a look at banks on the London Road near the different options for travelling to Phoenix Halls and in the centre of and from your Halls and campus (see Brighton close to Grand Parade. page 19). • reduce, reuse, recycle – see page 15 • Varley Park for some top tips on cutting down There is a cash machine in the Hub. your waste and making sure as much as possible is re-used or recycled. • Circus Street Hall • log on and join in – be part of the There are branches of all the main c-change campaign and help make a banks in the centre of Brighton close difference. Keep in the loop through to the halls. Facebook and Twitter or contact the c-change team via email if you would like to get involved: F: unibrightoncchange T: @_cchange_ E: [email protected]

12 CATERING We may need to vary cleaning routines COMPUTING FACILITIES or even close common rooms to There are restaurants and cafés on all manage our response to COVID-19. Students in our halls of residence are campuses.. For more information on our There will be no reduction in rent or able to use the university’s computing hospitality facilities please go to eat. compensation if we need to do this. facilities. Internet access and the use of brighton.ac.uk. this facility is included in your rent.

COMMENTS AND University wireless - Eduroam CLEANING ADVICE COMPLAINTS ABOUT This service, eduroam, (education SERVICES roaming) is the secure, world-wide University or contract cleaners will clean roaming access service developed for on a weekly basis the communal areas of Our aim is to provide you with the the international research and education your flat as part of your accommodation highest standard of service at all times. community. contract (see page 8). However, we know that things can and do go wrong. When this happens, You can find more information about They will not clear up after you or do the we need to know about it so that we eduroam and how to connect to washing up – this is your responsibility. can take measures to put things right the service at www.brighton.ac.uk/ We highly recommend agreeing a quickly and efficiently. We also welcome eduroam. cleaning rota or establishing some comments and feedback about our ground rules from the outset. This can services. The following is not covered by the halls avoid disagreements at a later date. of residence internet service: Further information about cleaning Most complaints can be resolved • some internet services that are not arrangements can be found in your immediately, but if your complaint is enabled for security or performance kitchen. complex we may need more time to reasons investigate. We aim to deal with your • advice or fixing of problems with Particular problem areas are: complaint within ten working days of your computer hardware • shared kitchens and bathrooms – a having received it. • networked printing facilities lot of problems can be avoided if • a guarantee that it is technically individual students clear up after Complaints, comments or any possible to connect your computer themselves. Please make sure that suggestions you may have should be to the network. you do your own washing up, clean referred to the appropriate member of the sinks and kitchen surfaces. And residential staff (please see pages 16-17 A network specifically for residents when you use the bath and shower, for contact details). of Circus Street Halls, Kaplan Living be sure to clean them afterwards. Brighton is available throughout the • grill pans which are not cleaned Appealing a charge or decision accommodation. You can connect up to regularly are a fire hazard and will If you wish to appeal a charge, fine or ten devices and will provide speeds of activate fire alarms. You should decision you should in the first instance up to 100 Mb/s. therefore clean grills after every use. contact the relevant Halls Manager • do not leave food lying around – (contact details are at the back of this vermin can be attracted very easily. guide). If you are still unhappy with the • rubbish and recycling – don’t let the decision you may appeal in writing to bins provided overflow with rubbish the Senior Accommodation Manager and recyclable items. (Accommodation) within 10 days of • ensure fridges and freezers are receiving the charge notification. defrosted regularly, at least once per term, to prevent the build up of ice. • where there is a shower curtain, always make sure it is tucked inside the bath. • you should not pin or stick anything to the walls – it always leaves a mark, despite what the adhesive manufacturers claim. Please use the notice board provided. Charges will be made for walls marked in this way.

13 COUNCIL TAX HEATING KEYS

Students living in halls are exempt from All study bedrooms and communal Each student will be issued with a key to paying council tax. areas are centrally heated during the his or her study bedroom and/or unit. winter months and the cost is included Please keep your keys safe and do not in your rent. In the event that the heater give them to other residents or friends. DOCTORS in your bedroom or communal area is defective, you should report it to one Access to bedrooms in the Woodland, You are strongly advised to register with of the halls staff immediately. Further Downland, Cliffe, Firle, Highview, a university doctor or local doctor as information about how the heating Upland, Hillside and Coastland and the soon as possible after you arrive. More works in your halls can be found in your Hub buildings at Varley Park is via the information on local doctors can be bedroom. Unicard. found at www.brighton.ac.uk/current- students/my-student-life/health-and- Remember to lock your door even wellbeing/health-services/index.aspx. LAUNDRY when you are going to the kitchen or bathroom and to keep the front door Laundry and drying facilities are locked at all times. It is not possible EMERGENCIES available at each halls site. Information for students themselves to get spare about how to use the facilities, including copies of keys cut, so if you lose your If there is an emergency contact the washing and drying costs, is displayed keys you will be charged for having a emergency services on 999. in each laundry area. If you experience replacement cut for you. a problem with any of the machines, If possible contact a member of site staff please advise by email the halls staff You must report loss or theft of immediately after you have contacted straight away. keys or your Unicard to staff on site emergency services. immediately. Please note that if you lose At Welkin Halls in Eastbourne and at your keys, the halls staff will need to first Paddock Field in Brighton, the washing confirm your identity before issuing you machines do not have detergent with a replacement and/or allowing you drawers so you need to bring washing to access your flat and room. capsules (combined with fabric conditioner) that are placed directly inside the machine drum. MENINGITIS, MEASLES AND MUMPS Laundries may be put on a rota basis, so that you are only able to use them You are strongly advised to get during your allocated times, in order to immunised against meningitis, measles maintain adequate social distancing. and mumps, as soon as possible. All are highly infectious, and prone to spread among the student population because of greater social mixing and living in close proximity. More information, including immunisation can be found at www.brighton.ac.uk/ current-students/my-student-life/ health-and-wellbeing/health-issues/ index.aspx.

14 POST • Phoenix Brewery - Letters are REDUCING, REUSING AND delivered to your building. Larger RECYCLING Please ensure the full and exact postal letters, parcels and recorded items address is used to avoid any problems are delivered to halls reception. As part of our c-change sustainability with the delivery of your post. Important You will be notified by email when campaign (page 12), the university items should be sent by recorded items are ready for collection. Please follows the waste hierarchy of ‘reduce, delivery. bring ID (e.g. your Unicard) with you reuse and recycle’, and students play a when you collect post so that staff key role in this. • Great Wilkins - Letters are delivered can verify who you are. Your postal to your flat. Larger letters, parcels address will be your flat number Here are a few things you can do to and recorded items are delivered to and block letter followed by the help cut your waste and save natural halls reception. You will be notified site address, e.g. Flat 2C, Phoenix resources. by email when items are ready for Brewery, Brighton, BN2 9WG. collection. Please bring ID (e.g. your Reducing: Avoiding food waste is a Unicard) with you when you collect • Moulsecoomb Place - Letters are key way of reducing waste and cutting post so that staff can verify who you delivered to your building. Larger greenhouse gas emissions, as well as are. Your postal address will be your letters, parcels and recorded items saving you money. You can visit block, flat number and room number are delivered to halls reception. www.lovefoodhatewaste.com for simple followed by the site address, e.g. You will be notified by email when recipes and tips on reducing your Block A Flat 1 Room 1, Great Wilkins, items are ready for collection. Please food waste. Avoiding buying heavily University of Brighton, Falmer, bring ID (e.g. your Unicard) with you packaged food will also help to reduce Brighton, BN1 9QW. when you collect post so that staff plastic waste. can verify who you are. Your postal • Varley Park - All post is delivered address will be your flat number Reusing: At the end of the year, the to halls reception. Letters are and block letter followed by the site c-change campaign runs a ‘Reuse distributed to flats by site staff and address, e.g. Flat 12, Tillstone Close, Project’, collecting unwanted items larger letters, parcels and recorded Mouslecoomb Halls of Residence, from students leaving their halls, and items are kept at reception for you to Brighton, BN2 4GA. donating them to a local charity. Look collect. You will be notified by email out for more publicity in your halls in when items are ready for collection. • Welkin Halls - Letters are delivered June for information on how to take Please bring ID (e.g. your Unicard) to your flat letterbox. Larger letters, part. with you when you collect post so parcels and recorded items are that staff can verify who you are. delivered to halls reception. You will Recycling: The university has a target to Your postal address will be your be notified by email when items are recycle 75% of all our waste. block, flat number and room number ready for collection. Please bring ID followed by the site address, e.g. (e.g. your Unicard) with you when you You will find more information about Woodland Lodge, Flat 1, Room 1, collect post so that staff can verify recycling in your halls, but items which Varley Park, Coldean Lane, Brighton who you are. Your postal address can be recycled at all halls include: BN1 9GR. will be the flat and court followed by • plastic bottles the site address, e.g. Flat 1, Berwick • paper and card • Paddock Field - Letters are delivered Court, Welkin Halls of Residence, • tins and cans to your flat letterbox. Larger letters, University of Brighton, Gaudick Road, parcels and recorded items are Eastbourne, BN20 7SH. Do not use delivered to halls reception. You your room number. will be notified by email when items are ready for collection. Please • Circus Street Halls - Letters are bring ID (e.g. your Unicard) with you delivered to your mailbox in the when you collect post so that staff lounge area adjacent to reception. can verify who you are. Your postal Larger letters, parcels and recorded address will be your flat number and items are delivered to halls reception. letter followed by the site address, Please bring ID with you when you e.g. 12A Paddock Field, University of collect post so that staff can verify Brighton, Falmer, Brighton, BN1 9SF. who you are. Your postal address will be your flat number followed by the site address eg Flat 2, Kaplan Living Brighton, 5 Market Square, Circus Street, Brighton, BN2 9AS.

15 RESIDENTIAL LIFE Circus Street Halls Please do not hesitate to contact or At Circus Street Halls, social activities speak to one of our overnight staff, they What is it about? will be organised by Kaplan Living Staff. are there to help you. You will find more Residential Life is a peer-to-peer There are no SRAs living on site however information about our overnight staff support project in the halls of residence there are staff Residential Advisers in and how you can contact them in your and university-managed houses. Upper place that provide emergency support flat. year students called Student Residential overnight. Advisors (SRAs) live and work in the • Residential Life Manager accommodation and provide assistance Monday to Friday to the new residents. The aim of the SITE STAFF 07903 363861 scheme is to create a friendly, inclusive and supportive environment for There is a team of staff working • Staff Residential Advisor everyone living in our accommodation. throughout the halls 24 hours a day. Monday to Sunday including public holidays Support Halls managers 7:30pm to 7:30am The Student Residential Advisors (SRAs) Halls managers work during normal 01273 641064 provide a range of support: office hours and are contactable via the • You will be assigned a SRA who details on page 20. They are responsible Security officers will check in with you regularly for a team of staff at each site. The halls The security team work across the throughout the year to say ‘hi’ and manager can help you with any queries university estate and patrol the halls make sure you are settling in to you may have about the halls you are as part of their routine duties. They your accommodation and life at living in and you should contact them in can also be contacted to respond to the university. They are in place to the first instance. incidents, emergencies and other provide advice and guidance and situations such as noise complaints or serve as a resource for all sorts of Caretakers and cleaners when a student is locked out. issues. Our caretakers and cleaners have a • They organise and deliver a diverse number of duties including keeping the Security officers provide an overnight mix of social events to create a sense halls site and the accommodation clean presence across the university from of community where everyone feels and tidy. Caretakers can also help you 9.45pm until 7.00am, and their main welcome. with queries you may have about your responsibility is to ensure that the • They are on call overnight to deal room or flat. sites are safe and secure and to take with welfare or pastoral related appropriate action where halls or emergencies. A list of contact numbers for each hall is student regulations are being breached. provided on page 20. Staff Residential Advisors • Phoenix Brewery In addition to the Student Residential Overnight and emergencies If you need to contact security, Advisors, we have a team of full-time Halls are staffed by security officers and report to the halls reception in C members of staff who are also on call a team of residences staff. The university block, or telephone 07880 725423 or overnight to provide welfare support in has appointed a team of overnight 01273 644200. case of emergencies. staff to offer support to all students living in halls of residence. The team • Moulsecoomb Place Contact is made up of a mix of residential and You can contact security at their site For any support or enquiries you can non-residential staff. They are there to office or by telephone on 07880 contact us at [email protected]. help students settle in and to provide 725415 or 01273 643547. Details of your assigned SRA and their ongoing support and advice to you contact information can be found on the while you live in halls accommodation. • Welkin Halls noticeboard in your flat kitchen. A security officer will be on site You can contact our overnight staff overnight. You can contact them on Contact details for each of the sites and about any personal issues or concerns 0208 036 0062 or 07590 778868. more information about Residential Life you may have, for example, if you are can also be found here: www.brighton. finding it difficult settling into your • Great Wilkins ac.uk/brighton-students/your-student- new accommodation, or if you are A security officer is available for life/my-wellbeing/residential-life/index. experiencing noise problems or other emergencies outside of normal aspx. forms of nuisance. If they are unable to office hours. You can contact the help they will be able to advise you who officer in the management suite else can. on site or by telephone on 01273 693548 or 07747 457626.

16 • Paddock Field SPORT STUDENT SERVICES L&Q staff can be contacted in an emergency after 5pm on 07958 Sport Brighton is the University of Opportunities and support to help 767672. Brighton’s sports and fitness services. you get the most out of your time at It offers great deals for students to join university. the on campus gyms, attend classes, • Varley Park take part in student clubs or attend turn Student Services is a central department If you need to contact security, up and play sessions. All Sport Brighton that provide a range of services to report to the site reception office in services are priced and designed for support you through university and to the Hub, or telephone 01273 641300. students. help you get the most from the student experience. • Circus Street Halls Details of the University of Brighton Please visit reception or call 01273 sports facilities are listed below: Their experienced and supportive 005459 to speak to a member of site staff offer advice on a range of issues, staff. Eastbourne including: • swimming pool • Advice about money worries and Sussex Police Liaison Officer • fitness suite how to live on a budget. The university works closely with Sussex • sports halls and studio • Support in finding jobs and Police and has its own assigned police • bouldering wall volunteering opportunities. officers. The officers work regularly • 3G artificial pitch • Help accessing academic support within our halls of residence and have if you have a disability, learning a remit to work with all students to Falmer difficulty or long-term medical increase their safety and ensure that • fitness suite condition. good links are maintained with Sussex • 2 studios • One to one support for students Police. The officers can be contacted • sports hall with worries or concerns in a safe, via university email and the Virtual Local • netball and tennis courts confidential space. Action Team (VLAT) on the community • 3G artificial pitch pages of studentcentral. • grass pitches Below is an outline of some of the ways in which they can help you during your Moulsecoomb time here. • fitness suite • sports hall Career development Build your employability skills and For more information on sports services boost your graduate potential, with at the university please visit careers guidance, enterprise skills, http://sport.brighton.ac.uk and employment and volunteering opportunities.

Chaplaincy There’s more to the Chaplaincy than you think with social events, retreats, worship, discussion, support and listening.

Childcare With two Ofsted rated nurseries open to children of staff, students and the local community, the University of Brighton is an excellent choice for high quality, affordable and flexible childcare.

Wellbeing Your mental health and wellbeing is always our priority, and the university offers a number of wellbeing services to support you during your time as a student with us.

17 Our expert teams listen without TELEVISION LICENCE TRANSFERRING BETWEEN judgement and encourage you to ROOMS connect with others, in the way that Televisions are provided in the most helps you personally. communal areas of Phoenix Brewery, If you are not happy with your allocation Moulsecoomb Place, Varley Park and you may be able to transfer to For more information about available Welkin Halls. In other halls, television another room in halls. The university’s services, visit www.brighton.ac.uk/ aerial points are provided in communal accommodation service manages a brighton-students/your-student-life/my- areas. If you live in Varley Park, Phoenix room swap list you can join, or if you wellbeing/index.aspx or Moulsecoomb Place and wish to use know of a particular room you believe is the TV provided to receive television vacant, contact the team to find out if it Student Advice Service channels you will be responsible for is available. When it comes to your finances at obtaining a TV licence. If you live in university it pays to be money wise; so Welkin halls in Eastbourne, the TV A £25 transfer fee is payable to cover for expert advice on financial issues, licence has been provided by Optivo administration costs (clause 4.4). including fees, grants, bursaries, loans, who manage the halls of residence on and money management, contact the behalf of the university. Please note that we will not consider Student Advice Service. They can also requests for room transfers until help if you are an international student If you have a personal television, or Monday 12 October 2020. Although needing immigration advice, or support receive television channels via your many rooms in halls will become if you’re experiencing culture shock and laptop or computer, in your room, or vacant during the first few weeks of the home sickness. communal area, you will need to get a academic year, most of these will be TV licence. allocated to students who still require Get in touch accommodation as this is our main You can find further information about Since autumn 2016, anyone who priority at this time. Student Services and answers to your downloads or watches BBC programmes student life queries via: on demand including catch up TV on • www.brighton.ac.uk/current- BBC iplayer needs to be covered by a students/my-student-life TV licence. This applies to all devices, • studentcentral (under the ‘help and including a smart TV, desktop computer advice’ section) or laptop, mobile phone, tablet, digital • your Student Support and Guidance box or games console. For more Tutor www.brighton.ac.uk/current- information visit www.nidirect.gov. students/my-student-life/index.aspx uk/articles/tv-licences-what-students- • one of our student centres located need-know. Television detector vans on each campus operate on all sites and fines can be • email or telephone (see page 24). imposed for non-compliance.

18 TRANSPORT centre. The N25 night bus stops discounted rail travel. outside the halls of residence. More In line with the planning requirements bus routes are available by walking • Moulsecoomb Place of the local authority and in support of to Lewes Road – a 15 minute walk. Bicycles: there is cycle storage within the university’s environmental policy, Local bus operators offer a range the halls of residence, in order to the university discourages reliance on of ticket options, including special get a key you must pay a £5 deposit cars and cannot guarantee parking discounts for students. at the Registry office (Mezzanine availability. floor of Cockcroft in Moulsecoomb), • Phoenix Brewery then take your receipt to the For further site specific details including Bicycles: cycle parking is available Moulsecoomb Place reception. A maps and directions to university within the site car park and in bike repair kit and pump is also campuses please go to www.brighton. the courtyard outside the main available at reception, just ask if ac.uk/maps. reception, please visit the site office you would like to borrow anything. for more details. A bike repair kit and Please note that bicycles are not For more sustainable travel tips, and pump is available at the site office, permitted inside halls of residence info on student travel discounts please just ask if you would like to borrow buildings. visit our c-change campaign’s travel anything. Please note that bicycles webpages: http://blogs.brighton.ac.uk/ are not permitted inside halls of Public transport: The hall is very sustainability/travel residence buildings. well served by public transport and is close to Brighton and Hove bus For information on car parking at a halls Public transport: Phoenix is located numbers 24, 25, 48 and 49. Local of residence site please refer to page 7. very close to a wide range of bus bus operators offer a range of ticket routes which serve the city, and options, including special discounts • Welkin Halls is about a 15 minute walk from for students. Bicycles: there is storage for bicycles Brighton train station. within the grounds of the halls of The hall is located next to the residence. A bike repair kit and • Great Wilkins and Paddock Field Moulsecoomb train station, which pump is available at reception, Bicycles: there is storage for bicycles offers frequent services to Brighton just ask if you would like to borrow within the grounds of the halls of and Falmer. Students can get a third anything. Please note that bicycles residence. A bike repair kit and off rail fares with a 16-25 Railcard, are not permitted inside halls of pump is available at Paddock Fields ask at your local train station for residence buildings. halls reception, just ask if you would details of this and other discounted like to borrow anything. Please note rail travel. Public transport: Welkin Halls are that bicycles are not permitted close to bus routes serving the town inside halls of residence buildings. • Circus Street Halls centre and Eastbourne train station. There is also a Brighton Bike Share Bicycles: secure cycle storage It is a 20 minute walk from the halls hub located at Falmer. is provided on site, please visit to Eastbourne train station, which reception for more details. offers regular services to Brighton. Public transport: the Falmer campus is well served by public transport. Public transport: Circus Street Halls • Varley Park are located in the centre of the city Bicycles: there is storage for bicycles Brighton and Hove Bus numbers 25 and are very close to the main bus within the grounds of the halls of and 23 both travel frequently during routes throughout the city. Brighton residence. A bike repair kit and the day to the campus and the bus Train station is a 15 minute walk. pump is available at reception, stop is a short walk from the halls. just ask if you would like to borrow The N25 night bus also stops on the anything. Please note that bicycles campus. Local bus operators offer are not permitted inside halls of a range of ticket options, including residence buildings. There is also a special discounts for students. Brighton Bike Share hub located at Varley Park. Falmer train station is about a 5 minute walk from the halls of Public transport: the number 24 bus residence, and there are regular stops almost opposite the Varley services into Brighton. Students site entrance – a 5 minute walk. The can get a third off rail fares with a bus travels past the Moulsecoomb 16-25 Railcard, ask at your local train campus and into Brighton city station for details of this and other

19 Contacts

GREAT WILKINS VARLEY PARK CIRCUS STREET HALLS

Site manager Matt Clinnick Site manager Dave Berry Site manager Jamie Bennett Site office 01273 693548 Site office 01273 641300 Site office 01273 005459 Security 01273 693548 or and security Security 01273 005459 07747 457626 [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] Varley Park Kaplan Living Brighton, Great Wilkins Halls of Residence University of Brighton 5 Market Square, Circus Street, University of Brighton Coldean Lane Brighton Village Way Brighton BN2 9AS Falmer BN1 9GR Brighton BN1 9QW WELLBEING SUPPORT MOULSECOOMB PLACE Residential Life Manager PHOENIX BREWERY Site manager Jon Hearn Martin Barr Site office 01273 642806 07903 363861 Site manager Richard Roalfe Security 01273 642806 or Site office 01273 644200 07880 725415 Monday to Friday Security 01273 644200 or 07880 725423 [email protected] Residential advisors 01273 641064 [email protected] Moulsecoomb Place Halls of Residence Monday to Sunday including Phoenix Brewery Halls of Residence University of Brighton public holidays University of Brighton Queensdown School Road 7:30pm to 7:30am Southover Street Brighton Brighton BN2 4HQ BN2 9WG WELKIN HALLS PADDOCK FIELD Site manager Fiona Robinson Site manager Steve O’Flaherty Site office 0208 036 0062 Site office 0300 456 9998 Security 07590 778868 ext 2804 Security 07958 767672 [email protected] [email protected] Welkin Halls of Residence University of Brighton Paddock Field Halls of Residence Gaudick Road University of Brighton Eastbourne Village Way BN20 7SH Falmer Brighton BN1 9SF

20 Contacts Other information

ACCOMMODATION SERVICES EQUAL OPPORTUNITIES YOUR PERSONAL DATA

Brighton The University of Brighton is Your personal data is processed by the 01273 644100 committed to providing a fair University for the purpose of managing [email protected] environment that embodies and your application for accommodation promotes equality of opportunity and and to fulfil its contractual obligations Eastbourne values the diversity of all members to you in the provision of your 01273 643810 of our community. To reflect this we accommodation. It may also be [email protected] ensure that there is no discrimination collected to fulfil legal obligations and/ in the provision and letting of or regulatory duties that it owes to its accommodation and that all tenants regulators and to other third parties. UNIVERSITY SERVICES are treated respectfully and fairly. Accommodation Services collects Income office Discrimination on grounds of disability, your personal data from the following 01273 642592 gender, sexual identity, marital status, sources: [email protected] family or caring responsibilities, • Personal details from the University race, colour, ethnic origin, sexual Student Record System. Student services orientation, age, gender identity, • The information contained on your national origin, nationality, trade union accommodation application form. Eastbourne membership and activity, political or • Information provided by you during 01273 643845 religious beliefs, work or study pattern the application process and whilst a or contractual status may be unlawful resident in the accommodation. Falmer as well as representing a breach of 01273 643584 university policy. For more information on how we collect and process data please go to Grand Parade https://staff.brighton.ac.uk/ahs/docs/ 01273 643187 Accommodation_Services_Privacy_ Statement.pdf Moulsecoomb 01273 642895 [email protected]

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