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King’s Affordable Accommodation Scheme

About KAAS

King’s Residences and KCLSU work together in a unique setting to discuss how rents will be set for the following academic year, taking into account utility costs (heating, water, electricity, WI-FI), the service costs (24/7 reception, security and pastoral care staff), the features of the property, the location of each site and transport costs to campus, where applicable.

KAAS enables undergraduate students to access accommodation priced at below market levels when applicants meet the eligibility criteria outlined on this page. The scheme will be awarded on a first come first served basis until all available spaces have been allocated.

Students approved for KAAS will not be asked to make the £450 advance payment of rent in order to secure their room.

If you're a returning student, you will be required to make a new KAAS application for each year of accommodation, although the outcome is not guaranteed to remain the same.

Eligibility criteria

 

  • You must be a full-time undergraduate student, first-year or returning in the 26/27 academic year.
  • Confirmation that your household income is below £42,875 per annum (find out more about household income and student funding on GOV.UK).
  • A statement explaining the reasons you feel you should be allocated a KAAS room.
  • For Home students, you must have applied for student funding via your regional student finance agency to be means tested and email all pages of your 26/27 Letter of Entitlement issued by Student Finance on a PDF or JPEG format within 4 weeks. 
  • For International students, please provide an officially translated version of your latest household tax return within 10 days.

For further information on student loans, please visit our fees and funding pages.

Incomplete applications will not be considered and therefore automatically withdrawn.

Check with your regional student finance agency for information about their application process, funding amounts, and deadlines:

An outcome on your application will be provided within 14 working days of us receiving your Letter of Entitlement.

Application process

Applications can be made via the form at the end of the accommodation registration. You will need to provide the documentation outlined above and complete a short personal statement.

KAAS Available KAAS Unavailable
Angel Lane Atlas
iQ Vega Moonraker Point
Battersea Canada Water
Orchard Lisle & Iris Brook Julian Markham
Great Dover Street Apartments City
Stamford Street Apartments Vauxhall
Hayloft Point  
Wolfson House  

If you are approved for KAAS, you will be given two weeks from approval to secure accommodation with this rate.

Should you fail to book a KAAS room within two weeks of receiving your approval email, the KAAS offer will be withdrawn and you will be asked to book a room at the published rate.

If your application had been declined and you wish to have it reconsidered, in order to provide additional information or supporting evidence, please email to kingsresidences@kcl.ac.uk. However, there is no guarantee you'll be approved, particularly if all KAAS rooms have already been allocated.

In the event of us receiving more applications than our current availability, the following order of priority will be applied.

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Remaining applications order of priority

Priority 1: care experienced applicants or students estranged from family verified by King’s Widening Participation.

Priority 2: applicants below the household income threshold with an approved Accommodation Disability Provision application.

Priority 3: applicants below the household income threshold, in receipt of King’s bursary and based outside London.

Priority 4: applicants below the household income threshold, in receipt of King’s bursary and based in London.

Additional Support

If you are unsure of what other financial assistance is available to you, King’s Student Funding can help you access a wider range of initiatives.

Unite Foundation

With the Unite Foundation scholarship, you can have accommodation and bills covered for up to 3 years at university. So far, over 800 estranged and care experienced young people have gone to university on the Unite Foundation scholarship.

Find out more and how to apply here.

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Contact us

If you have any questions or queries about this, please get in touch with the Bookings Team.

0207 848 5959

 

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