SR & TS
Hi, I'll try to help fill in the blanks if you are still in the dark.
If you are starting on the 1st, it will be on a 5 day residential induction course at Highfield Park near Reading - no accomodation worries, and they will send you directions. Look forward to a week of team-building exercises (Cross the Shark Infested Custard Pit Using Only This Bit of String and a Match) and long evenings in the bar. The week after, you start at CATC in Bournemouth. As for accomodation, the joining pack that you will get from the college should have a list of B&B's and rooms to rent. Most of the B&B's are in the Westby Road area of Boscombe, and that's where most students stay at first, some for the length of their time in Bournemouth, others get flats later. Most of the B&B's listed are good, and there should be no trouble getting booked in at the start of October. I don't think they send you a timetable for the course, you get that at Highfield when they are there to explain it so it makes sense.
As far as your conditional offer goes, if you have had your medical and passed it, then everything should be fine. I can't remember getting a final confirmation letter, but I might be wrong. It's also possible that your security clearance may take slightly longer if you are from N.I., I think that happened to a guy on our course, but it caused no problems.
Have fun the induction week, it's a good laugh, and enjoy the course.