{"id":74,"date":"2025-07-21T13:06:26","date_gmt":"2025-07-21T12:06:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/student-news\/?p=74"},"modified":"2025-07-24T14:16:25","modified_gmt":"2025-07-24T13:16:25","slug":"closure-of-chipperfield-extension-lounge-and-alternative-spaces","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/student-news\/2025\/07\/21\/closure-of-chipperfield-extension-lounge-and-alternative-spaces\/","title":{"rendered":"Closure of Chipperfield Extension Lounge and alternative spaces"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Over the Summer, the Chipperfield Extension Lounge is being closed and repurposed for School expansion.<\/p>\n<p>The next closest Campus Lounge is in\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/maps\/canterbury\/canterbury-campus?campus_lounges=true\">Jennison Building<\/a>, which is a new lounge that was added in 2025. The Jennison Lounge is a large space with lots of seating and kitchen facilities.<\/p>\n<h3><strong>Where are the other Campus Lounges located?<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>We have Campus Lounges located in the following buildings:<\/p>\n<ul class=\"bullet-list\">\n<li>Keynes<\/li>\n<li>Woolf<\/li>\n<li>Rutherford<\/li>\n<li>Cornwallis South<\/li>\n<li>Eliot<\/li>\n<li>Cornwallis North East<\/li>\n<li>Jennison<\/li>\n<li>Medway Building (Medway)<\/li>\n<li>Clocktower Building (Medway)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3><strong>Microwaves and hot taps<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>Many of the Campus Lounges include microwaves and hot taps, so you can heat up your lunch or make yourself a hot drink. The lounges are also great spaces to relax between lectures, and especially for\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/student.kent.ac.uk\/life\/commuting-to-campus\">commuting students<\/a>\u00a0who may want to have a base while on campus.<\/p>\n<p>See our\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/student.kent.ac.uk\/life\/campus-lounges\">Campus Lounges webpage<\/a>\u00a0for details about locations and facilities in each of the Campus Lounges.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over the Summer, the Chipperfield Extension Lounge is being closed and repurposed for School expansion. The next closest Campus Lounge is in\u00a0Jennison Building, which is &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/student-news\/2025\/07\/21\/closure-of-chipperfield-extension-lounge-and-alternative-spaces\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40853,"featured_media":75,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[312383,312220],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/student-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74"}],"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=74"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/student-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":76,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/student-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74\/revisions\/76"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/student-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/75"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/student-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/student-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/student-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}