# Cheney Student Village > Mediated Wiki article. Canonical URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Cheney_Student_Village > Markdown URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Cheney_Student_Village.md > Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cheney_Student_Village > Source revision: 1308869245 > License: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) Residence hall at Oxford Brookes University in England This article needs more citations. Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. Find sources: "Cheney Student Village" – news · newspapers · books · scholar · JSTOR (March 2014) (Learn how and when to remove this message) Cheney Student Village **Cheney Student Village** is one of the nine [halls of residence](/source/Halls_of_residence) at [Oxford Brookes University](/source/Oxford_Brookes_University) in [Oxford](/source/Oxford), [England](/source/England). Located on Cheney Lane in [Headington](/source/Headington), a few minutes walk away from the [Gipsy Lane](/source/Gipsy_Lane) campus, it houses 750 students in single study bedrooms with en suite shower rooms and self catered kitchens.[1] ## History Originally named Cheney Hall and knocked down in 2002 to 2003, Phase One of Cheney Student Village opened in September 2003 for 350 students (Blocks A to H).[*[citation needed](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed)*] Phase Two opened one year later in September 2004 although a number of rooms were not completed until late October 2004. This meant a large group of student having to stay in [Keble College](/source/Keble_College) and [St Catherine's College, Oxford](/source/St_Catherine's_College%2C_Oxford), for a month before transferring to Cheney.[*[citation needed](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed)*] Cheney Student Village was built as part of a partnership between Oxford Brookes University and Jarvis UPP (formerly part of Jarvis PLC).[*[citation needed](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed)*] This [private finance initiative](/source/Private_finance_initiative) (PFI) meant that the Hall was financed, built and run by Jarvis UPP on behalf of the University on a 30-year contract. University Partnership Program (UPP Projects Ltd)[2] took over operation of the business from Jarvis PLC in September 2005, and its sub-company UPP RSL Ltd now operate the running of the Hall.[*[citation needed](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed)*] In the summer of 2006 the [common room](/source/Common_room) was completed and opened ready for the start of the 2006/07 academic year.[*[citation needed](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed)*] ## Facilities Cheney Student Village is situated in landscaped grounds and has two onsite launderettes, and a sports centre with a floodlit all-weather football pitch nearby.[*[citation needed](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed)*] Newly[*[when?](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Manual_of_Style/Dates_and_numbers#Chronological_items)*] built and all en suite, the residence is made up of 750 single study bedrooms arranged in flats of five or six with shared kitchen/living/dining rooms. ## References 1. **[^](#cite_ref-1)** ["Accommodation Hall Options: Cheney Student Village"](https://www.brookes.ac.uk/studying-at-brookes/accommodation/prospective-students/halls/cheney-student-village/). *Oxford Brookes University*. Retrieved 5 December 2018. 1. **[^](#cite_ref-2)** [UPP Projects Ltd](http://www.upp-ltd.com/). ## External links - [Cheney Student Village — Oxford Brookes Accommodation website](https://web.archive.org/web/20130629030357/http://www.brookes.ac.uk/studying-at-brookes/accommodation/halls-in-detail/cheney-student-village/) [51°45′12″N 1°13′49″W / 51.7532°N 1.2302°W / 51.7532; -1.2302](https://geohack.toolforge.org/geohack.php?pagename=Cheney_Student_Village¶ms=51.7532_N_1.2302_W_type:edu_region:GB) v t e Oxford Brookes University Organisation Chancellor: Paterson Joseph Vice-Chancellor: Alistair Fitt Former chancellors and vice-chancellors John Henry Brookes Campuses Headington Campus Gipsy Lane Headington Hill Site Marston Road site Faculties and schools School of Architecture Oxford Brookes Centre for Nutrition and Health School of Law Student life Oxford Brookes Students' Union Boat Club Oxford MCCU Other Westminster Institute of Education UTC Swindon List of alumni Category Commons --- Adapted from the Wikipedia article [Cheney Student Village](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cheney_Student_Village) by Wikipedia contributors ([contributor history](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cheney_Student_Village?action=history)). Available under [Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/). Changes may have been made.