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Halls Life
Posted 2 weeks ago
Sun 01 Mar, 2026 08:03 AM
Accommodation bookings for our UAL halls of residence for 2026/27 will open in stages, depending on your student status.
- Wednesday 8 April 2026 – Bookings open for current UAL students who would like to live in halls for the 2026/27 academic year.
- Wednesday 22 April 2026 – Bookings open for students who have firmly accepted an unconditional or conditional offer to study at UAL for 2026/27, including those who deferred their offer in 2025/26.
- Wednesday 13 May 2026 – Bookings open for all students who have received an offer to study at UAL for 2026/27.
Starting a full-time course at UAL as an international student outside of the EU? You're guaranteed accommodation if you book by Friday 15 May 2026.
To visit one of our UAL halls of residence in person, before you book, register to attend a UAL Halls Tour.
To help you book your room smoothly, we recommend the following:
- access the accommodation portal using only one device
- allow yourself additional time when booking your room
- be patient with the loading time for some areas of the portal.
If you wish to speak to a member of our accommodation team about your booking at any time, contact them by phone on + 44 (0)20 7514 6240 (UK number) or by email accommodation@arts.ac.uk.
Here's some useful FAQs to help you with booking a room in one of our UAL halls of residence.
FAQs
Technical/portal issues
If you received an error message, please refresh the webpage to allow the information to re-load. This is likely to be due to a high volume of traffic on the portal. If you continue to receive the error, please try again in 5 minutes or contact our accommodation team.
Please contact the Accommodation team via e-mail to resolve this issue.
When booking a room for Archwood House, Gardens House, Highline, The Costume Store, Glassyard Building, Sketch House or Portland House, you have to make a deposit payment of £500.
Once you have made a payment, you have to go back into your accommodation portal and accept the room booking.
No, we recommend that you do not use multiple devices or multiple tabs as this will slow the server down with increased usage.
Booking & availability
For the majority of students booking rooms, you will only be able to book one room within the student accommodation portal.
If you have disclosed a disability within the portal, you will be offered the option to apply for 5 halls and the accommodation team will be in touch to confirm your room.
If you were given the option to book any room, at any hall, you will need to cancel your booking and start again.
Rooms are available in real time and are subject availability. There is a possibility that this could change but there is no guarantee – you are more than welcome to check back later or review and consider other rooms which are available.
We listened to our students, and they told us they wanted more control when it came to booking a room in UAL halls. This is why most of our students will log into their portal and see which rooms are available and will book it book it straight away.
Whilst on the other hand, some students, for example Study Abroad, Exchange students or students with medical condition, may select a preference route so that we can check whether a hall and room type is appropriate for them.
Application & updates
Due to the increase in applications, updates for students who selected the preference route are sometimes delayed. The date we will send updates by is to be confirmed.
Pricing
Rents are set and we cannot change the rent price.
The assessment for a partially funded rooms is open for a limited time. This window of time will be confirmed.
About halls
Our partner halls include:
- Emily Bowes Court
- Furzedown Student Village and Cedars Hall
- Stratford One
- Wick Park
- YourTribe Peckham
If you select to a room at one of the above partner halls, you will still be asked to reserve a room.
However, our Accommodation team will refer you to the partner hall and they will contact you directly to book your room.
We will guarantee a room for first year international students if they book by a certain date. This date is to be confirmed. Rooms are subject to availability.
