The Copse

Drunk students screaming all the time from every direction. call the security team or submit a report can achieve nothing.Crazy women stand outside my door screaming consistently all over the year, drunk students having the party in the corridoor every night. Super thin wall so you can hear your neighbor whispering. People shout every night outside the window. it feels like living on a battlefield. The security team did nothing. I had serious depression after I live here.Worst accommodation ever. the worst noisy buliding I have ever seen. after a few months move out, I still can feel anxious and nervous about that memory.

My son's hall of residents - the room looks comfortable and is ideal for the University of Essex students

Secure and modern Accomodation. Have had no issues here really enjoyed it.

University of Essex always amazes me especially on how the campus is layed out. The Copse is an architecture beauty. Well layed out with it being very close to all the services you need on the campus.

The room is nice but can hear everything that goes on in other rooms. The doors slam loud so you can hear people 5 doors down coming out their room. The shower is the smallest i've ever been in and the water has barely any pressure coming out the shower...

This is a very nice looking accomodation, but don't be fooled. Since they built it with the cheapest possible materials, everything falls apart. They are already replacing all the insulation despote the building being only a few years new, which has caused me to be woken up by builders outside my 5th floor window drilling and hammering almost every day.Been living here 2 years now and I've had 3 chairs break, several hot water/shower issues, been locked out my room on several occasions because the door randomly won't work, and last year my window wouldn't open at all, leaving me with an incredibly humid and stuffy room.If you think that contacting them to report issues will yield any results, then you thought wrong. In November 2021 I told them about my window issue (first of many emails i sent them). Come June 2022 and it was still broken and I had to buy a dehumidifier with my own money to try and make my room habitable. Most of my emails were either ignored or replied to by what was seemingly a rude 12 year old they hired to manage their complaints.This may be a student accomodation, but it is a business first and they care more about profiting off you than they do about your health and safety. I strongly advise applying to 3rd party student accomodation near the university.

Room itself is decent. However the fire alarm occurs nearly every week and sometimes in the middle of the night, it went off at 5am once. Reception takes time to allow you to collect deliveries, sometimes you have to wait until the next day. Wired internet is gigabit which is incredible. But Wi-Fi is sometimes glitchy and I sometimes have to toggle off and on the Wi-Fi setting to get it to work again. Also, the security of the Wi-Fi network is really poor, allowing you to control other people’s devices e.g. Chromecast.

The accomodation is new but stuff keeps breaking. Sometimes thetiles on the stairs that lead to the accomodation break and then they have to be closed off. The elevator in my flat has been broken for 1 and a half month. My room door handle got loose and had to be called in. The chair in my room almost broke because the nuts holding it in place came off. The accomodation looks nice but is not worth the price.

Great architecture, close to the campus especially the EBS building and one of the luxuriest building at the university. HOWEVER, walls are soooooo thin that I hear what my flatmates do even including upstairs and downstairs. Would not prefer hearing to my flatmates and her boyfriend’s convo and their private stuff. Also doors make noise that if you do not hold it while closing it wakes up everyone in the flat with its big noise. Would not recommend it at all.

Bad staffs with fake smile face and attitude. Room is like a cell block. The water is slow as fk and sometimes don't have hot water. I left early.