Yeh Marketgate(owned by unite) is the place to go. Though there's frequent buses to and from uni, and i think if you live at campus you get a free ulink bus pass so you'll be alright. And Filton Abbeywood train station is 5 min walk from uwe so you can get to Temple meads to go riding. But be careful in the student village, apparently if you break something it will be expensive to fix.
Could be worse though, you could go to Bristol uni and have to walk down park street/ St. Michael's hill all the time