Shrivenham 2015
Annual guide for serving personnel and their families in the Shrivenham station detailing Local Amenities, Housing, Education & Leisure activities in the area.
Annual guide for serving personnel and their families in the Shrivenham station detailing Local Amenities, Housing, Education & Leisure activities in the area.
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Allocations<br />
As in all other stations in the UK, SFA is allocated by<br />
Carillion Amey (for <strong>Shrivenham</strong> Station this is South East).<br />
At certain times of the year, most, if not all the SFA is<br />
occupied. The summer period is critical. Priority is given to<br />
those who cannot remain at the duty station after posting<br />
because of security. Next come those who are returning<br />
or joining the Station from overseas and this may affect<br />
those coming from NW Europe who must give GFA three<br />
weeks notice of an address in the UK where their baggage<br />
is to be delivered. Finally the lowest priority goes to those<br />
who are already in the UK.<br />
We will do our best to give you as much warning as<br />
possible of where you will be living, but sometimes<br />
circumstances will not allow us to give you a quarter in<br />
the area or estate of your choice.<br />
Courses of Six Months Duration<br />
We are only allowed to allocate quarters to those who<br />
are attending courses of at least six months duration.<br />
The only exception to this rule is those from overseas<br />
who are attending a number of courses or attachments<br />
to other Ministry of Defence establishments and whose<br />
total stay in the UK is longer than six months.<br />
Overseas Students<br />
Foreign and Commonwealth families, if they have<br />
entitlement to SFA, will obviously want to plan their<br />
moves early and will want to know where to send<br />
their heavy baggage. Carillion Amey will normally liaise<br />
through the Head of International Student Liaison,<br />
obtaining an agreed date when you can occupy your new<br />
home. Very often this will depend on when someone<br />
from your country already at the Station intends to vacate<br />
and we will allocate that quarter to you. Sometimes this<br />
is not possible, either because the previous occupant<br />
is staying on after you have arrived or because there is<br />
no one from your country in a quarter at <strong>Shrivenham</strong>.<br />
We will then provide you with somewhere else on the<br />
families quarters.<br />
Council Tax<br />
Some Foreign and Commonwealth families will be<br />
eligible for total exemption from this charge. They will be<br />
asked to complete an Application for Exemption Form<br />
held by Academic Registry at the College.<br />
Accommodation<br />
Moving Out<br />
When the time comes to vacate your quarter, you<br />
should remember that someone else will probably move<br />
in and take over the house at the same time. The state<br />
and cleanliness will reflect on you. You should therefore<br />
leave the place in the state which you would want to<br />
take it over. Some reminders on preparing a quarter for<br />
handover are listed later in this section.<br />
Students should particularly remember that those coming<br />
on succeeding courses get as anxious as you did about<br />
when they can be accommodated. You should inform<br />
the Carillion Amey as early as possible when you are<br />
going, so that they can tell the newcomer when they can<br />
move in. That person can then plan his move.<br />
Once a posting order has been received, students should<br />
apply for a SFA at their new station as soon as possible.<br />
They should then arrange their pre-move out advisory<br />
visit and book their move out as soon as they have their<br />
new address. In Jul/Aug/Sep as you can imagine the<br />
time scale to move students in/out is extremely tight,<br />
please book your move out as soon as possible. Once a<br />
date has been arranged by you to move out, your SFA<br />
will then be allocated to an incoming student. Changes<br />
to your move out date can therefore only be made in<br />
extreme cases, as it will cause great inconvenience to the<br />
incoming occupant.<br />
Overseas Students<br />
You should start planning your move back to your own<br />
country sometime in May/June. We don’t want to say<br />
a hurried farewell to you at the end of your stay in the<br />
UK or seem inhospitable, but please remember that<br />
someone else from overseas may require your quarter<br />
as soon as you have vacated. As soon as you know your<br />
arrangements please book a time and date for your premove<br />
out advisory visit and moving out. If all the times<br />
on a chosen date are already booked then we may have<br />
to ask you to choose another date, probably a day or so<br />
earlier. You may have to stay a night or two in a hotel<br />
and most of you get allowances to cover that eventuality.<br />
Before contacting a fellow countryman coming on next<br />
year’s course to take on hired appliances, make sure that<br />
he will be allocated to your quarter.<br />
Your Accommodation<br />
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