{"id":1375,"date":"2026-01-07T11:23:28","date_gmt":"2026-01-07T11:23:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/student-news\/?p=1375"},"modified":"2026-01-07T11:23:28","modified_gmt":"2026-01-07T11:23:28","slug":"icy-conditions-and-warm-spaces-on-campus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/student-news\/2026\/01\/07\/icy-conditions-and-warm-spaces-on-campus\/","title":{"rendered":"Icy conditions and warm spaces on campus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Following the recent snow and icy conditions we want to let our students and staff know that while our <strong>Canterbury and Medway campuses are open as normal <\/strong>today (Wednesday 7 January), please take extra caution while travelling to and around campus.<\/p>\n<p>While conditions are icy, <strong>allow more time\u00a0to get to campus<\/strong>. Roads and pathways on and off campus may be icy, causing traffic to slow down and meaning it may take longer to reach campus.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Campus is regularly gritted<\/strong> by our Grounds Maintenance team. Please be aware that there are lots of factors which can impact the effectiveness of gritting, including timing, rainfall and traffic (needed to spread the salt and activate it). This means that despite gritting efforts, paths and roads can still be slippery <strong>so please do take extra care<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<h3><strong>Warm spaces on campus<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>If you are looking for <strong>warm spaces on campus to work and chill out<\/strong>, head to:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/student.kent.ac.uk\/studies\/library\">Templeman Library<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/campus.medway.ac.uk\/\">Drill Hall Library<\/a> (Medway)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/student.kent.ac.uk\/life\/campus-lounges\">Campus Lounges<\/a> (including Oasis Lounge at Medway)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/student.kent.ac.uk\/studies\/library\/study-spaces\/hubs\">Study Hubs<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Many of our Campus Lounges include <strong>microwaves and hot water taps<\/strong> so you can heat up food or make yourself a hot drink.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Following the recent snow and icy conditions we want to let our students and staff know that while our Canterbury and Medway campuses are open &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/student-news\/2026\/01\/07\/icy-conditions-and-warm-spaces-on-campus\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40853,"featured_media":1358,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[312383,223280],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/student-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1375"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/student-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/student-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/student-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40853"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/student-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1375"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/student-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1375\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1378,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/student-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1375\/revisions\/1378"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/student-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1358"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/student-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1375"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/student-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1375"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/student-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1375"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}