Guide to - support and adjustments

CAMPUS ACCESSIBILITY
The university has three
campuses; Whiteknights, London
Road and Greenlands.
Whiteknights is the main campus,
set in 130 hectares of parkland
and with the full range of student
academic, support and social
facilities. The campus is mostly
flat, though there can be a
considerable distance between
buildings due to its size.
Accordingly, we can recommend
that adjustments are made to
students’ timetables to allow for
additional time to travel between
lectures for students with mobility
difficulties, or for back-to-back
lectures to be timetabled into
rooms within a reasonable
distance of each other.
London Road and Greenlands are
smaller, more specialist
campuses. London Road is home
to the Institute of Education and
as one of the university’s original
campuses, has a number of older
buildings which can present more
of a challenge in terms of
accessibility.
Greenlands is used by the
University's Henley Business
School as the base for its MBA
and corporate learning, and is
situated on the banks of the River
Thames near Henley.
Both campuses have spaces for
parking, including a number of
space specifically for blue badge
holders. Other students may
apply for a permit, and we can
support these applications when
required for disability-related
reasons.
Buses run between the
Whiteknights campus and
Reading town centre every 7
minutes on a 24/7 basis, and
several services that stop outside
many of the halls of residence. All
buses have accessibility features
such as low floors, the ability to
‘kneel’ to allow easy access,
provision of ramps and a space
for a wheelchair.