To ask the council for a 3 bedroom house although I only have 2 boys?

[colditz]

the background is this

We live in a teeny tiny 2 bed house

Ds1's behavior is such that the school are referring him to a paediatrician.
He has no furniture in his room. He has no toys in his room.

Now DS2 has to share this room too. I bought bunk beds because there is no way 2 single beds will fit in there, but to be honest, ds1 is not going to behave appropriately around a bunk bed for as far as I can see!

I keep finding him in ds2's cot, which isn't safe, but soon ds2 will be too old for this cot, and a single bed isn't going to fit in there.

All there furniture is either in my room or on the (tiny) landing.

All the toys they own are downstairs - nowhere else to put them.

AIBU? AIB grabby?

There have just been a huge amount of houses built in this town, mostly HA. I don't care where I live - I'm in a crap area anyway, would be happy to stay here if ONLY I had more room.

It's odd isn't it? There's been no building in this town for 30 years, and now they are doing loads. They struggled to house me until I was offered this house, because it is one of about 20 2 bedroom houses in the area. We waited a long time for it and there were loads of empty 3 bed houses - which they said were 'unsuitable'.

(I'm with HA) I put in to move when i was pg with dd before i knew the sex of the baby, the house we lived in was 2 bed and the rooms as in all newish houses were tiny and dd2 kept waking dd1 and her school work suffered eventually after being on the waiting list 2-3yrs we got moved to a 3 bed house and we're all so much happier!

I really hope they manage to accomodate you too.

colditz, the council dont care how awkward it is. They have their "rules".

It took me so many medical points with ds's asthma just to get the damp fixed and heating put in after three years of living in a crumbling heap.

have to agree i wouldn;t hold your breath my friend has a girl and a boy both sharing a bedroom and they are supposed to be on the list for a three bed but have been so for years

although you could look into this a lass that lives near me has four kids sharing a room and she has heard that if they can;t offer you the proper amount of bedrooms they are thinking about conerting peoples lofts for them!!

There is the available housing though - there's an empty 3 bed 4 doors down.

I will apply and see.

Do apply!

What i sthe age gap between your sons? In our area same sex siblings with 4 years or more difference in age are entitled to seperate rooms

No, there is only 3 years between them. It really wouldn't be a problem except for ds1's chimp-like behavior.

Someone may have already been "pencilled in" for that one though colditz...best of luck anyway, there's no harm in applying for it.

I have 6 years between mine which made have helped my case, I didn't know that wallace!

Lovemygirls, six years between my two also. ds has to be 12 before they would even consider it. As far as they are concerned, 12 year old boy and six year old girl can share the same room.

colditz if i were u id get there and mention this house - it might turn out lucky ...fingers crossed

Good luck colditz

btw This is what our council says on kids sharing

"Overcrowding

To calculate overcrowding points, the Council considers that separate bedrooms are required for -

husband/wife or similar partnerships
each person aged 16 years or over
children aged 6 years or over of different sex from other children of any age
no more than two persons of any age should occupy one bedroom
children of the same sex where there is an age difference of 4 years or more between the elder and the younger child

Applicants? current accommodation will be assessed on the above basis and 30 points awarded for each extra bedroom needed, up to a maximum of 120 points"