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

Why have more children than you have room for?

When someone is discussing possibly having more children, then it may be a valid question depending on circumstances.

Once they've already had another child, it's really not helpful.

But not every question on MN is helpful. Some are just asked out of curiosity.

No-one ever has to answer the question, so that's why I don't get why people moan about it being asked.

What forms your family consist of? You and 2 DC? Do you have a partner?

Why can you not have the single room and give the children the double. A loft or cabin bed with storage under is plenty of space for a sole adult.

I have been given a housing specialist now by family support.

To the person who asked why I had more children than I had room for..... I owned my own home with more than enough space, I had to leave this due to severe domestic abuse and was homeless for two years with my children. Council then offered me a tiny house, which I accepted. They even said themselves it isn't suitable. Acceptable answer?

And thank you so much to everyone else for the helpful advice. There's more of a back story than I have explained but was a bit of a wreck when I posted.

Why have more children than you have room for?

FFS.

Which of her two children should the OP shove back up her fanny then? Because once the children are here that question is entirely fucking pointless and of no help whatsoever.

OP, we rented a house a while back where one "bedroom" was 185cm by 160cm. Council guidelines for our area stated that a bedroom must be large enough to fit a standard sized single bed, a chest of drawers or wardrobe, and have enough floor space to move around the two. Definitely keep on at them, the squeaky wheel gets the grease.

Thank you mauis, that's really helpful. Would literally only be able to fit a single bed in and nothing else

How many children are you trying to cram into the tiny room which can only fit a single bed? If it’s more than one I would certainly be sleeping in there myself, in your shoes. Why aren’t you?

Has the house been re partitioned since it was built? The council never built places where the smallest room was literally single bed sized.

Are you single Sonny? If so you need to swap rooms.

The council never built places where the smallest room was literally single bed sized.

There are over 300 councils in the UK. Can you be more specific please?

My city council has stock which was built with box rooms. They've now been recategorised as bedrooms.

Box rooms are small, but not literally single bed sized. They’ve been used as bedrooms for years, haven’t they?

Box rooms are small, but not literally single bed sized. They’ve been used as bedrooms for years, haven’t they?

Our box room was literally single bed sized and nothing else until we knocked out the adjoining wall and borrowed some space from the much bigger bedroom beside it, reversed the door too so it opens outwards instead of inwards to give a more bit more room.

Oh, ok.

Yes they built a new wall upstairs to add a hallway in.

It was originally just my ds in there in a toddler bed and dd was in with me, which was fine, then he got too big for his toddler bed and wanted dd to stay with him, dd has quite bad sleep issues and (I know it's my own fault!) she will fall asleep with ds, and constantly wake, it always gets to a time of night where I'm too exhausted to settle her again and she gets in my bed.

She has been seen by specialists re the sleep issue and it's all still ongoing

So the room was originally bigger? Any chance of removing the wall (assuming it’s just a stud) or is the hallway necessary to the other rooms?

They’d still be sharing a room, though, so that would be kind of pointless, sorry.

wish someone would give me a tiny house

But the issue is not the dc sharing (assuming they are under 10) but that the room is too small for both. Either a single child sleeps there, op and other child share or op does and children share larger room. Is it a 2 bed?

Lemonlady22 why don’t you get yourself off to PaddyPower or whatever?

Try online Scrabble?
Where would your granddaughter sleep in this tiny house anyway?

Well done for getting out and keeping your children safe. Not ideal but whilst they’re still little you take the smallest room and they share. I’m sorry about your daughter’s sleep issues.
Ignore shitstirrers like Lemon. He’s bored and has nothing better to do. Not clever enough for a crossword.

wish someone would give me a tiny house

I don't have a tiny house but here, have the worlds smallest violin. And, oh, listen... its playing the worlds saddest song, just for you.

Thank you for the helpful comments to everyone.

As I previously said there is a very long back story to it and other reasons for wanting to move but council aren't allowing it so far.

Health visitors have been out to look at the house today and have done a very supportive letter as they know about the whole thing that has gone on. Have the tenancy officer coming out next week to go through her arguments to move me and the housing specialist so hopefully I can improve things

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