Park Wood Flats

Reviews

Anonymous

The location is a little far out from campus centre but with a bike, it’s perfect. You are in the woods with a bar nearby and a shop as well as laundry services. The flats are also disability friendly. The ensuites are an adequate size with an easy clean bathroom. In your room, you shouldn’t hear much from outside. The kitchen space could do with some uplift - but a personal touch would go far.

Anonymous

Park Wood is a stunning location, because it's just a short walk off campus (so it doesn't feel like your entire life is university), and heads out towards some stunning fields, farms, churches and forests. It's peaceful. There are plenty of laundry rooms, there are enough study hubs, the area has it's own shop, post office, pub, eatery, studios and classrooms (which, since I lived there, have been massively renovated into something much more modern and sociable). Because of how the blocks of flats are laid out, it's easy to get to know people; this is not necessarily the same for the Park Wood housing. Noise levels can be quite high sometimes, but generally people respect the tolerance of others. Because of the abundance of green, during the Spring and Summer, everyone is sitting outside and greeting each other. Park Wood is situated next to the Uni's huge sporting field and sport pavilion, so no sports are ever amiss either. The rooms in the Park Wood flats have always been spacious, and if you're as lucky as I was, your room may face onto the fields and the greenery rather than the roads at the front. Thankfully, bus services are very good and frequent from Park Wood. There are a few bus stops dotted around, and paths that go easily anywhere - even Whitstable *the seaside!!!* is only a 2 hour walk through the luscious landscapes. The desk space is biggest, which is ideal for first years trying to get a grip of workload. Storage is fantastic, you have plenty of shelves in the room, and can also store things under the beds. The rooms have since been renovated to have bigger, more comfortable double beds rather than single, and more storage has been provided, and the layout has been modernised. The bathroom is extremely spacious as well - every room is en suite. However, the showers aren't separate, meaning that the bathroom is actually a wetroom. Sometimes when the water pressure is too high, this can be problematic. The drainage is generaly good, though. Kitchen used to have a "knights at the round table" feel, but they are now equipped with barstools and an island. Way more luxurious.

Anonymous

I was placed in a top floor flat which was extremely spacious - at the time, I took it for granted. Ensuite, large kitchen, plenty of natural light; we even were lucky enough to have a massive storage cupboard which I can’t imagine life at that point without. The place often had spiders, but was otherwise quite spotless.

Anonymous

Decent rooms, with excellent housekeeping but too expensive and no group seating area. The social life is great and all of the best people I’ve met since being at university have been from these flats! Unfortunately we don’t have a sofa or chairs.

Anonymous

It's lit af y'all need to live like this it's the only way to enjoy the first year of uni, peak if you get shit flatmates though

Anonymous

Fantastic refurbished ensuite with a double bed. Kent placed me with flatmates who are now my closest friends. The only problem was it was kind of far from central campus compared to the rest of the halls like Keynes/Darwin etc. But this was outweighed by the brand new refurbished flat and massive shared kitchen facility. Parkwopd essentials meant any shopping was also a 2 minute walk away! Plus buses regularly went around campus to and from Canterbury town.

Anonymous

The space was great - albeit a large single rather than a double really. Good storage, en suite (wet room), with a lovely view either of the green space outside or inward to the hub. Kitchen was good - too easy to set the fire alarm off though.......

Anonymous

The rooms were quite spacious and en suite is always a bonus. It was a 10 minute walk to central campus which isn't too bad. Park wood also had their own amneties, e.g. a shop and a restaurant so you don't always have to go to main campus. It gets cleaned by cleaning staff every week (both public and private spaces, such as the kitchen and your ensuite bathroom). However, it is very expensive.