This page features accommodation information and FAQs for current students, including postgraduate students. Whether you’re living in halls, living off campus, or renting privately, you can follow the relevant link below to find guidance and support. You can also learn more about hall fees and landlord information.
If you’ve had a halls offer, you’ll find some helpful FAQs towards the bottom of the page. For those considering applying to Edge Hill, view our university accommodation page for information tailored to you. You can book a room in our campus accommodation through the accommodation portal.
If you are due to start a postgraduate course, (such as a PGCE, Masters, or PhD), please view the information below.
Accessing available accommodation
Due to our current capacity on campus, the Accommodation Team are not able to offer rooms in halls of residence to postgraduate students. However, information about the private sector accommodation available close to campus is accessible if you are an applicant with an unconditional or conditional firm on your postgraduate course offer.
We are sorry that we haven’t been able to offer you a room in one of your preference choice at this stage or that you have been offered a low preference choice. Unfortunately, it is not possible to give each and every student their preference but there are options available to you.
I didn’t receive any of my preferences
If you didn’t receive a room offer for any of your preferences, there are two options available to you.
Option one
To be guaranteed a room on campus you should accept the room offered to you. You will soon be sent an email giving you the opportunity to apply for a Pre-Arrival Transfer (via the Accommodation Portal). Should one of your preferred room options becomes available, we would look to offer you a room transfer into a new room. This option ensures that you will have a room on campus for the start of term.
Option two
If you live within a commutable distance and/or you definitely do not want the room that has been offered to you, you may decline the room offer and join our Halls Waiting List (you would be able to do so by emailing: [email protected]). By doing so, you would no longer be guaranteed a room on campus for the start of term, but we will contact you with a room offer, as and when a suitable room becomes available.
If you live a long distance away from the University and cannot commute to campus, we would highly recommend that you sign the contract to secure a room on campus for the start of term and then apply for a transfer.
Alternatively, if you would like to consider other options, there are also rooms available in Ormskirk, which is a 10 minute walk from campus, you can find a list of 700+ available rooms on our Flatmate Finder Facebook Group (password to access the off campus list: F3ysD_!@oFfcamPUs2122).
I have got a low preference choice
Sometimes it is not possible to give every student one of their preferences. However, in this case although this was not one of your top preferences, you received one of your five listed preferences. As you have received one of your preferred choices, we cannot change it currently.
If you live within a commutable distance and you definitely do not want the room that has been offered, then you can decline this offer and go on the Halls Waiting List (you would be able to do so by emailing: [email protected]). This would mean that you are not guaranteed a room at the start of term, but we will contact you with a room offer should one of your higher preference choices becomes available.
If you live a long distance away from the University and cannot commute to campus, we would highly recommend that you sign the contract to secure a room on campus for the start of term and then apply for a transfer. Alternatively, if you would like to consider other options there are also rooms available in Ormskirk, which is a 10 minute walk from campus, and you can find a list of 700+ available rooms on our Flatmate Finder Facebook Group (password to access the off campus list: F3ysD_!@oFfcamPUs2122).
Room transfers
At any time during the academic year, if you wish to transfer to a different room on-campus, you are able to apply for a room transfer via the Accommodation Portal (‘Requests’ and ‘Room Transfer Request’). Please note that all transfer requests are subject to eligibility (as well as availability of rooms to transfer into).
When applying for a room transfer, you will be required to provide a reason for your request, along with evidence (where applicable). The Accommodation Team will then review your eligibility based upon the information you have provided. Should you be eligible for a transfer, you will then be contacted by the Accommodation Team to proceed with your room transfer.
Information about Covid-19
The Coronavirus pandemic has gone through a number of phases since it began in 2020. As a result of the successful roll-out of the vaccination programme and more effective treatments to prevent severe illness, the pandemic has moved to a point where we are ‘living with Covid’. There are still simple measures we can take to minimise transmission of Covid-19 and other infectious diseases including having good hand hygiene and adopting behaviours such as Catch it, Bin it, Kill it.
Further information on the latest advice can be found on the NHS page.
If you have access to Covid-19 tests and get a positive result, you can report your absence in the same way as you would currently report any other absence from the University. If you are unsure on how to report your absence, please contact your Personal Tutor.
