AIBU to refuse a council house over stairs and no outside space?

Loads of families live in houses where the bathroom is on only one floor - or the children sleep on a different floor to the parents.

If she’s sleepwalking you should use a stair gate or lock her door for her safety.

Why not rent something privately, then you can be very specific about what you want?

yard? Do you mean garden?

I think you have made the right choice. You can get a high stairgate and a camping toilet and wait it out.

yard? Do you mean garden?

Hello again 👋 I went to see the house today. It's all been ripped out with brand new bathroom and kitchen, brand new windows and the housing officer said it's had about £30,000 put into it as it was a complete and utter dump when they got it back from the previous tenants. There were bugs (flies and what looked like cockroaches) everywhere but she said it will be deep cleaned and this is just because they've kept the windows open mostly while renovating.

The stairs are very steep and there is no landing, just directly 2 bedrooms next to eachother.

The "yard" is basically an entry, big enough to fit the wheelie bins in and nothing more. She said the road is quiet, she knows the tenants next door are also a single mum and a child around my age but unsure of the ones on the other side.

I expressed my concerns over the bathroom and outside and while she completely sympathised with me and completely understood where I was coming from having 2 children with ASD herself she said that the council would not see this as an issue without an official diagnosis.

She said she's seen it go 50/50 and what she would do in my position is take the house and after a year try to swap or after a diagnosis put forward a medical grounds case, which I know a lot of you have suggested.

I had a little panic but she said she did need an answer today and gave me an hour to mill it over. I've spoken with friends and family (family are old school and were on the grounds of "tell them you need somewhere bigger" and didn't understand the dire state of council housing nowadays) friends have tried to cheer me up and say they'll help with decorating, moving etc. and that it's better than where I am now.

So I called back after about half an hour and accepted the house, she said it would be ready in a few weeks. I'm going to baby gate the stairs and get a sensor for her door frame, I've also looked at motion sensor lights for the stair case. Thank you to everyone who has left helpful, encouraging and well wishing comments. To the rest of you, good riddance I guess 😅

Hello again 👋 I went to see the house today. It's all been ripped out with brand new bathroom and kitchen, brand new windows and the housing officer said it's had about £30,000 put into it as it was a complete and utter dump when they got it back from the previous tenants. There were bugs (flies and what looked like cockroaches) everywhere but she said it will be deep cleaned and this is just because they've kept the windows open mostly while renovating.

The stairs are very steep and there is no landing, just directly 2 bedrooms next to eachother.

The "yard" is basically an entry, big enough to fit the wheelie bins in and nothing more. She said the road is quiet, she knows the tenants next door are also a single mum and a child around my age but unsure of the ones on the other side.

I expressed my concerns over the bathroom and outside and while she completely sympathised with me and completely understood where I was coming from having 2 children with ASD herself she said that the council would not see this as an issue without an official diagnosis.

She said she's seen it go 50/50 and what she would do in my position is take the house and after a year try to swap or after a diagnosis put forward a medical grounds case, which I know a lot of you have suggested.

I had a little panic but she said she did need an answer today and gave me an hour to mill it over. I've spoken with friends and family (family are old school and were on the grounds of "tell them you need somewhere bigger" and didn't understand the dire state of council housing nowadays) friends have tried to cheer me up and say they'll help with decorating, moving etc. and that it's better than where I am now.

So I called back after about half an hour and accepted the house, she said it would be ready in a few weeks. I'm going to baby gate the stairs and get a sensor for her door frame, I've also looked at motion sensor lights for the stair case. Thank you to everyone who has left helpful, encouraging and well wishing comments. To the rest of you, good riddance I guess 😅

Hello again 👋 I went to see the house today. It's all been ripped out with brand new bathroom and kitchen, brand new windows and the housing officer said it's had about £30,000 put into it as it was a complete and utter dump when they got it back from the previous tenants. There were bugs (flies and what looked like cockroaches) everywhere but she said it will be deep cleaned and this is just because they've kept the windows open mostly while renovating.

The stairs are very steep and there is no landing, just directly 2 bedrooms next to eachother.

The "yard" is basically an entry, big enough to fit the wheelie bins in and nothing more. She said the road is quiet, she knows the tenants next door are also a single mum and a child around my age but unsure of the ones on the other side.

I expressed my concerns over the bathroom and outside and while she completely sympathised with me and completely understood where I was coming from having 2 children with ASD herself she said that the council would not see this as an issue without an official diagnosis.

She said she's seen it go 50/50 and what she would do in my position is take the house and after a year try to swap or after a diagnosis put forward a medical grounds case, which I know a lot of you have suggested.

I had a little panic but she said she did need an answer today and gave me an hour to mill it over. I've spoken with friends and family (family are old school and were on the grounds of "tell them you need somewhere bigger" and didn't understand the dire state of council housing nowadays) friends have tried to cheer me up and say they'll help with decorating, moving etc. and that it's better than where I am now.

So I called back after about half an hour and accepted the house, she said it would be ready in a few weeks. I'm going to baby gate the stairs and get a sensor for her door frame, I've also looked at motion sensor lights for the stair case. Thank you to everyone who has left helpful, encouraging and well wishing comments. To the rest of you, good riddance I guess 😅

I knew the area was bad yes but the advert didn't state anything about the bathroom. It was just "2 bedroom house with yard"

Hi, I really need some advice on what to do here please I've been crying all morning and scouring the Internet. I'm on the council housing list, have been for 3 years now because of the state of my current ground floor flat. The council came out to do a review and put my banding up.

I got a call yesterday out of the blue to view a house I bid on before Christmas and was 47th in the queue so didn't think I would have any chance. The woman said it has a small yard and a downstairs bathroom. My daughter is 6 and I'm so so scared she's going to fall down the stairs in the night time to use the toilet, she sleepwalks and is currently on the pathway for ASD, when she goes to the loo in the flat I have to battle to steer her back to bed or she's wandering about on her own for god knows how long.

I've also been to look at the house through the windows and it 100% does not have a yard as the lady said as the bathroom has been built on as an extension downstairs. I know this sounds so ungrateful but I don't want us moving from bad to worse, our current flat has a tiny little yard that I've managed to squeeze a bench and a mini greenhouse into so my daughter at least has somewhere she can sit outside when she's had a meltdown or needs to regulate herself.

I'm so worried if I turn this down by saying I'm worrying about the stairs at night I'll be taken down a band. Has anyone successfully turned down a property for safety concerns and not been penalised? Thank you 😊

OP, I havne't read the pages of responses you have had, and I am unfamiliar with how the system works, so excuse me if I miss something here.
The red flag for me is that you were 47th on the list. Does that mean that quite a few people have already rejected it. Are there even more issues you aren't ware of?