Student Information

Welcome to Charnwood

We hope you enjoy your time living and studying in the Borough of Charnwood. This page provides links to all the things you need to know as a student in Loughborough.

Want to Know More About Where You Live?

When your bins are being collected, where your nearest doctor's surgery, recycling points, police station or transports links are? If so it's easy just go to My Charnwood and put in your postcode and find out all you need to know about where you live.

Student Safety & Crime Prevention

For more information on how to stay safe and secure visit our community safety pages and for regular updates on emerging issues become facebook friends with 'PC Mike Lboro Uni'

As the start of the new university term begins a joint campaign to promote student safety and crime prevention is being launched by the Police, Charnwood Borough Council and Loughborough University. During the first few weeks of term officers will be visiting you to provide information and advice about living off-campus in residential areas of Loughborough.

Respecting Your Neighbourhood

Students and residents live alongside each other in Loughborough and to ensure harmony is maintained it is important to respect others and their property. Noise and other anti-social activities can cause distress and can impact on the neighbourhood. We have an incremental approach to dealing with reports of anti-social behaviour and, along with the University, will apply the appropriate enforcement.

For advice & information for students living in the community can be found on the University's Community Website.

Refuse and Recycling Service

We provide an alternate week wheelie bin and recycling service. We encourage all residents to recycling wherever possible, this includes disposing of fast food wrappers in an appropriate bin rather than dropping them as litter in the street.

For more information on how the refuse and recycling service works, see our student recycling and waste pages.

You can call us…

If there are five or more in your household you are entitled to a bigger bin, to request one call 01509 634563. This is also the number to call if you have any other queries about the service.

Additional Information

Our Related Links below provides direct links to other areas of our site where student related information can be found, including council tax discounts & exemptions, parking in residential areas, recruitment etc.