Bridge Street Studios, birmingham

This place is terrible do not book with volume works / bridge street/ prestige student living or whatever they call themselves now. The bins are almost always overflowing.Residents leave rubbish outside their rooms and on staircases, which is both unhygienic and unacceptable. The smell spreads throughout the building and is clearly a long-standing issue that management has failed to control. The lift is constantly broken and takes an unreasonable amount of time to be fixed, if it is fixed at all. This makes daily life difficult, especially for residents on higher floors, and reflects a complete lack of urgency or care. The building itself smells unpleasant most of the time. This is worsened by residents smoking weed and using drugs inside the property the smell is constantly lingering in the corridors. There is no effective enforcement or management of this. Noise is another major issue. The walls are extremely thin, and noise from neighbouring rooms and upstairs is constant. Stomping, movement, and general noise carry clearly and make it difficult to rest, focus, or study. When I moved in, the room was not properly cleaned and several items were already broken. The rooms are clearly not inspected properly between tenants and that maintenance standards are extremely low. For £250 per week, the facilities are unacceptable. The laundry machines are dirty, stink and are not properly maintained. Nothing in this building feels properly maintained. The accommodation has changed owners / managers multiple times during my stay, yet conditions have not improved. The property is rundown, poorly managed, and clearly in need of refurbishment and competent oversight. This accommodation does not justify its price. DO NOT MOVE HERE !!

I’ve had an extremely disappointing experience at Bridge Street Studios. Over the past few months, the accommodation has been through multiple management changes, and the quality has drastically declined. Firstly, cleanliness is a major issue. Common areas are frequently dirty, and I've often encountered vomit on the stairs due to intoxicated residents. The smell of weed is pervasive, not just in common areas but also creeping into my room, making it almost impossible to breathe with the windows open. This is especially concerning as summer will be approaching in a few months. Safety is another huge concern. For the first time in my five years of staying at student accommodations, I feel very unsafe here. There are frequent incidents involving drug dealers and break-ins, and the overall security is inadequate. I constantly feel like I have to be on alert, which is incredibly stressful. Moreover, the facilities are poorly maintained. Many machines are out of order, and the staff does little to address these issues or inform residents. It’s frustrating to spend money on amenities that don’t work. In summary, Bridge Street Studios is a complete disappointment. I strongly advise prospective students to look elsewhere. The property manager even appears to post fake positive reviews, so please be cautious. I truly wish I could give this place no stars.

Where do I even begin? Whatever you do, DO NOT live here. I can’t believe this company is still allowed to scam students with inhumane living conditions while charging a ridiculously overpriced amount. The lift was constantly broken, and when you complained, they had the cheek to tell you to contact the lift provider yourself because they outsource it. The bins. You would literally walk out of the building and see used period products and used needles on the floor, completely unhygienic. This was because they couldn’t be bothered to get enough bins, place them somewhere sensible instead of directly in front of the door, or hire private waste removal after the strikes. After numerous complaints, they finally hired one for about three weeks, and then the situation became even worse somehow. The gym (if you can even call one working treadmill, two loose dumbbells, and a dirty puzzle mat a gym) has no windows for ventilation, and the AC was broken the entire time, which is illegal. The front door and room keys are operated through a Bluetooth app. The system often failed, or the battery in your room door lock would run out, leaving you locked out for hours. You then have to wait upwards of three hours for help, only to be charged £60 for their own faulty system. Imagine going downstairs late at night in your slippers to collect food delivery and being unable to get back into the building because their system is down, then being threatened with charges when you call for help. The window in the room barely opens, with almost no ventilation. Even normal cooking steam could set off the fire alarm in such a small studio, despite the ‘ventilator’ being on. Summers were unbearably hot with no proper airflow. The walls are paper-thin. You can hear everything. There were no cleaners and fruit fly infestations in the corridors and lift were common, likely caused by the bin situation outside. Overall, this place is a complete money grab with the worst property management I’ve ever experienced. I only moved here because I needed a studio at short notice and this was the only option available. If you can avoid it, do not live here, for your physical and mental health. It’s far from the city centre and universities, not a pleasant walk, and feels very unsafe at night. For the price, you could easily get a much nicer one-bedroom apartment just as far from the centre that isn’t marketed toward students. Side note: to the business owner who keeps posting fake 5-star reviews—you are doing so under the same name, which is extremely obvious. Or are you just too lazy to care? I’m probably missing other issues, but these were the most consistent and serious problems during my time here.

I don’t even know where to begin with this place, it has been the worse living experience of my entire life. The bins are constantly overflowing littering the streets and causing rodents to run wild along with rotten stenches. The lift is CONSTANTLY breaking every week so if you have any sort of accessibility problems don’t even consider this building at all since you’ll be having to suffer up many flights of stairs. There are people constantly smoking and doing drugs in the building and the stench just drifts trough the hallways like the bins outside weren’t bad enough already, not to mention there are drug dealers constantly in and around the building since they just let anyone in because the doors are always broken too, don’t be surprised to see a gang of 10 people who don’t live here walk inside with no issues. The residents are loud too constantly having fights and smashing in your doors as hard as they possibly can, you will not feel safe living in this building whatsoever and i doubt it will be safe any time in the future. Overall you won’t be safe inside the building or outside, the place reeks and the residents are loud and always fighting and everything is just broken all the time, absolute joke and I have no idea how it’s even legal to subject people to living conditions like these.

One of the best student accommodation managed by Volume team. The are really helpful and provide sufficient guidance if one face any sort of problem. Highly recommend this place to students amd working professionals. It has been my home for more than one and a half year till date.