Lovely clean accommodation, very centrally located for nights out& nipping home during breaks. Great wifi and facilities (even a hot water tap!). Cleaners were lovely.
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| College Court | #1 |
| Lomax Halls | #2 |
| Leek Road Houses | #3 |
| Leek Road Halls - Aynsley Hall | #4 |
| Clarice Cliff Court | #5 |
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Lovely clean accommodation, very centrally located for nights out& nipping home during breaks. Great wifi and facilities (even a hot water tap!). Cleaners were lovely.
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Kitchens have been done up in the last 5 years or so, but bedrooms are very run down. Reslife seem to care more about running social events that nobody wants to attend than actually maintaing the accommodation. Rooms don't seem to be attended to between residents, evident from ancient blu tac caked on walls. Issues with water supply- shower frequently turns off when using hot water. WiFi is virtually unusable, have to plug phone into ethernet port to even send messages which is incredibly frustrating. Front bedrooms of the houses near the smoking hut are constantly noisy- half the time it's full of sixth form students from round the corner. LRV nights can be heard clearly from the houses into the early hours. Furniture and facilities vary between houses, there's no consistency. Communal hallways are supposed to be cleaned by reslife but never are. Price pretty much reflects the experience but the halls are much better value than the houses, if you've got a choice AVOID.
Lovely clean accommodation, very centrally located for nights out& nipping home during breaks. Great wifi and facilities (even a hot water tap!). Cleaners were lovely.
The houses themselves are fantastic, they have been recently renovated and are modern. Houses is definitely the social place to be at university - there is a hut in the middle that people constantly meet at, and you get to know loads of people from other houses. We've had many people move from Clarice Cliff to Houses after coming down here most days! The location is good, right in the middle of the Stoke campus. The LRV club is a thirty second walk away, which is a blessing when you're going but a curse when you want to sleep on Wednesday night. The major issue I have is ResLife themselves. They are awful. They constantly have cleaning inspections, and if something is slightly out of place they'll threaten you with a fine. The majority of houses get threatened with fines at least once a week. This year, there has been construction work and I know one house has had scaffolding in front of it since the second week of Semester 1 (we're now well into Semester 2).
I got the best room in the house, but the Kitchen has some issues with damp that are being addressed.
The ResLife team can be a little over the top. And they are pretty much out to make money. The only let down.
Living in houses on campus has no benefit whatsoever unless all your seminars/lectures are in the science centre. You never get a lie in as all the delivery lorries come right outside your window beeping every day, you can't sleep with the window open as there is some sort of wheezing generator behind the houses by the science building, if you don't go out to the SU because you have work or don't want to or are poorly or whatever, you may as well because the music is so loud it sounds like it's right outside your room. The toilets don't flush and the bath taps have no temperature other from boiling or freezing, same with all the taps in the house. The university took away cleaners and increased the rent, makes sense!!! They swapped the cleaners to "house inspectors" who are so petty that if a pepperoni fell off your pizza in the oven and you missed it, you will fail. Fail a few times and they threaten you with a fine. Also the oven/hob is highly inaccurate and cupboard space is crap.
Imagine hell without the fire. if you stay here each semester will feel like 14 long centuries of pure boredom. It will break you down to a spoiled little raisin of a human and you'll wish you never came to the depressing, motivationless pit that is Stoke-on-Trent.