Accommodations at Platt's Lane Estates are available to upper-year students, graduate students and students with families.

All students must have personal and/or family incomes below the income ceiling set by the Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation during the lease period.

Priority is given to:

Students with families
Platt's Lane Estates offers Western's only family-friendly accommodations, therefore students with families are given priority over single students. Single students are encouraged to apply to the University Apartments.

Full-time students
A full-time undergraduate is defined by the Registrar as a student taking at least three and one half courses between September and April. Courses taken in the summer are not applicable.

Additionally, the date for which accommodation is required, the date the application is received and the size of the family applying for each unit will further determine priority for every applicant's request for accommodation.

Priority in renting one-bedroom apartments is given to couples without children.

The two-bedroom apartments and townhouses may be occupied by couples without children, single parents with children or couples with children, with the following provisions:

1. The first floor two-bedroom apartments will be offered initially to applicants with children.
2. The townhouses will be offered initially to applicants with children.
3. The three-bedroom townhouses will be offered initially to applicants with two or more children.