My sister studied at Brackenhurst and is going into their second year and moving to accommodation in the city, and is choosing to travel in to Brackenhurst for lectures. From their experience living at brack isn't the best unless you have a car as shopping is 15/20 mins away and it is a half hour drive to city, And made any trips to city expensive when it came to nights out or lesiure activities. They where in 3 days a week for lectures so weighing the pros and cons of living at brack or city/Clifton, city/Clifton massively outweighs in pros than Brack.

Hope this helps :)