Council housing bedrooms please help!

[Sonny23]

Does anyone know if there are any rules regarding bedroom sizes in council houses for adults/children?

Does the room have to be a certain size to be classed as a bedroom?

Tia

Presumably if the council are saying it's a bedroom then it's big enough for their "requirements". Can you get a bed in it? It's a bedroom.

I think there are rules regarding this.

As above. Our council views (dont know about others ) that the front room and dining room can be made into a bedrooms if need be

Essentially no. There used to be the Parker Morris standards but these were abolished by the Tories in the 1980s, because having housing standards restricted development.

Two out of 3 areas I've lived in did have room size restrictions. But it wouldn't have mattered who was allocated that room, there wasn't different rules for adult and children.

My current council don't seem to have any restrictions on sizes, or if they do then they don't publish them. However, like a PP said, they can class a dining room as a bedroom.

There's a room which ds is in but all you can fit in there is a single bed and literally nothing else. Have got him a Cabin bed and made a make shift bunk bed for ds underneath but hv isn't happy with it, housing officer said it's not a suitable bedroom so discussed transfer but now I've been refused because they've said I should have a single bed in there and put dc in my room.

I'm getting different information from all of the services I speak to think I'm going mad.

they've said I should have a single bed in there and put dc in my room.

And you can't do this because ? It sounds tight for two. Or could you sleep on a sofabed downstairs.

I'm a bit confused which may be that my brains melting from the heat, but how many kids are you squeezing into the room, 1 or 2?

Is the cabin bed the issue? I could be reading this wrong, but I've interpreted your post to mean that your son is not sleeping in the upper part of the cabin bed, but underneath it somehow. Or do you have 2 children? In which case, why not bunk beds?

Yep isn't a cabin bed like a bunk bed bit with a desk underneath instead of a bed?

Ah, not just me then.

Try Shelter. They're very knowledgeable on housing rights for tenants (e.g. if there is a minimum bedroom size) and will write to the council on your behalf if the council are in the wrong.

DH and I asked for their help as we cannot share a bedroom due to his disability. the council has already turned us down flat for an extra bedroom despite letters from GP/ Specialists etc. Shelter got on the case and we were awarded the extra bedroom entitlement within weeks.

It isn’t the case where I live. Why have more children than you have room for?

Why don't you swap bedrooms? My bedroom is a box room that just fits a bed and a small chest of drawers in. I don't need a double room.

There are regulations and they are easily googled on your council website. There are rules about minimum size and who is sharing regarding age and sex of children.

It isn’t the case where I live. Why have more children than you have room for?

Oh here we go.

You declare yourself overcrowded and the council come and assess. You would get extra points for overcrowding and therefore be able to bid for a bigger property.
However, beware. Number of bedrooms included living rooms and dining room as these can be slept in. Only excludes bathrooms and kitchen. Know of a family where the council put a bed in a hallway.

It’s all on the Shelter website.

You can speak to someone online from shelter too. Try tomorrow when they are open.

My council is one which only excludes kitchen and bathroom as being bedrooms. Caused a lot of hassle for people who moved somewhere with a living room and bedroom and were charged two bedroom rate instead of one (when moving here you're transferred automatically to local housing allowance rates even if in council/HA housing).

Am I right in thinking that you have a double room and a small single room? And you have 3 people (yourself and 2 DS) to house? If so, you're not overcrowded. One person goes in the small single, and 2 people share the double.

Can you not put your ds in with you?
I think they will see it as 2 sharing the larger room & one in the small room.

It isn’t the case where I live. Why have more children than you have room for?

Oh here we go.

Why do so many people on MN dislike that perfectly valid (in many cases) question?

How old are your dc?

It would make more sense for the dcs to share the larger room and you have the small room . With 2 boys ( if I've understood correctly) you wont be rehoused in a 3 bedroomed house .