As a mature student and someone who retains a basic commitment to hygiene, I approach the idea of a communal kitchen with existential dread. Having toured other student accommodations e.g Great Dover Street Apartments (which can best be described as post-apocalyptic), I knew with some certainty that living in anything resembling this environment would be mentally corrosive and lead me to survive off cereal for the entire year.

Which leads me to enthusiastically tell the reader that Battersea residential flats come with dishwashers. You will no longer be burdened by the sins of others and instead be liberated, freeing up valuable time for more important pursuits e.g drinking, partying (or lying to yourself that you’ll use the extra time to study the degree you actually came here for).

Battersea appears to not subscribe to the popular student-housing model of forcing fourteen people to share one bathroom. Instead, they’ve made a concerted effort to structure room allocation in a way that values hygiene. Room allocations: If you book an en-suite or twin 1/2 room (where the bathroom is shared with one other person), you are typically place in an eight-person flat. If you book a standard non en-suite room, you are more likely to be in a two-four person flat.

The flats are generally well-built, modern and clearly designed by people who understand what it means to be a student. Kitchens are oddly well considered with multiple cookers and a built-in microwave, enough space to support up to eight people without descending into chaos.