All students who have accepted the offer of a place on the General Course and applied for housing by the deadline of 31 May 2009 are guaranteed to be offered a place in LSE or University of London accommodation (though the School cannot guarantee that your offer will be for your preferred residence or in a single room).
LSE offers a variety of styles of accommodation. In all of them, there will be a varied mix of students, undergraduates and postgraduates, home and overseas, men and women. In each residence there is a student committee to organise regular events, such as video evenings or film shows.
There are ine Halls of Residence:
• Bankside House: 617 places in mainly single rooms, many with private bathroom facilities, located just south of the Thames, next door to the Tate Modern gallery.
• Butlers Wharf: 281 spaces in mainly single rooms. The hall is self-catering and students live in flats of 5-6. It is situated next to Tower Bridge and near the Tower of London.
• Carr-Saunders Hall: 132 single rooms and 12 twin rooms in the West End, near the Telecom Tower and Tottenham Court Road; meals are provided as required and cost on average £4.50 for an evening meal.
• High Holborn: 448 spaces just a short walk from the School, in the heart of London's Theatreland. This is self-catering accommodation.
• Lillian Knowles: 360 spaces in single rooms with private bathrooms. This hall is located near Liverpool Street station and the city of London.
• Northumberland House: 370 spaces in single and shared rooms with private bathrooms. The residence is self-catered and situated just off Trafalgar Square in the centre of London (ten minutes walk from LSE).
• Passfield Hall: 100 single, 42 twin and five treble rooms in a Georgian terrace overlooking a tree lined square in Bloomsbury, near the University of London central precinct; one meal a day is included in the fees.
• Rosebery Avenue Hall: 289 single (some equipped with mobility aids for wheelchair users) and 13 twin rooms close to Sadler's Wells Theatre; evening meals are provided as required, and cost about the same as at Carr-Saunders.
• Sidney Webb House: Almost 450 spaces in single rooms all with their own private bathroom. The hall is near Borough Station and the Borough Food Market. The hall is entirely self catering and is split into flats of 6-8 students who share a kitchen.
The University of London also provides intercollegiate accommodation in seven mixed halls: Commonwealth Hall, Hughes-Parry Hall, International Hall, Nutford House, College Hall, Canterbury Hall and Connaught Hall. Should you miss the application deadline for guaranteed accommodation, or you simply wish to live in private housing, the School can still assist you. There is plenty of rented housing available in London, but you will need to allocate some time to 'shopping around' in order to get a good price and a good location. LSE is able to offer you a place in one of its halls of residence, usually High Holborn, for two weeks prior to the start of the Michaelmas Term. From this base you will be able to meet other General Course students and begin to look for housing together, using both the School's Accommodation Office and that provided by the University of London. So, while arriving in London without a permanent place to live is undoubtedly daunting, you should feel reassured that LSE will do everything it can to ensure this doesn't remain the case for long. Further details on LSE accommodation can be found at www.lse.ac.uk/accommodation |