housing letter help

[mumof8kids]

Hi

Wasnt sure where to post this so thought would try everyone here.

My current house is a 3 bed (converted it to a 4 so DS6 with ASD could have own room) not ideal as have 8 children and youngest is still in with me. Problem is DS is coming in my room most nights and can take a while to resettle him by which time he has woke baby. Council have agreed need a 5 bed property (they only have 4) so am trying to write a letter to see if they would be willing to convert smaller properties into one. ~If I could afford it on my wage would bvuy my current house and my mums which she owns and is next door and do it myself to save the stress of moving for both me and DS dont want to move to far as just settleing him in at school and hange is a big issue for him.

Anyone good at this sort of letter or can give me some pointers please

many thans

No advice really but just wanted to wish you luck, we are waiting for a 3 bed through the council (we are in private rent at the moment) and are at the top of the list, the trouble is we don't want to move dd1 from school and most of the houses (council) in this area are 1 or 2 bed. We have only been on the list for 6 months and i can see us waiting along time. I tried to ask the council a few questions reg the housing situation and the shortage of larger properties, i asked them how they plan to deal with the fact 100's of people are waiting for a 3-5 bed house? do they plan on building more large houses? and they were very rude to me, basicly told me its tough shit and we just have to wait for a property to become empty and we should take what ever 3 bed comes up (even if its 25 miles away from dd's school and dh's work).

We have applied for housing in another area (we live on the border of 2 councils) ,hopefully we will have more luck there.

Fingers crossed your council will be more understanding and helpful.

I think the best thing you can do is to keep phoning them, keep on, cry if you have to and hope they give in (i know a few people who have done this and managed to get a house).

The anoying thin is the fact that the 4 five bed houses are probably being occupied by middle aged people who's children have left home (they could easily live in a smaller house) yet the council wont move them.

Sorry for the rant .

i suppose it depends on the areas housing stock and whats available, a few years back Glasgow city council knocked two properties near my aunts house into one for a large family but i havent heard it happening too often.
agree the best course of action is to keep on at them, i wasnt at the top of our housing list but because i phoned the housing officer several times, enquiring what was available, how would i get certain areas that were coming up etc i was in her mind when this bungalow came up so she thought she would ask if id like it, i almost bit her hand off!

thanks for replying. i know the council have knocked 23 3 bd houses into one large house but not sure why or how long ago it happened. Am going to ry and out a letter together in the morning see what happens

i have gone private rented in the end as council place was to small , new couil had nothing large enough but have been very lucky to find a long term private let bungalow big enough for us all

We couldn't get a council house at all, even though we were about to be made homeless with severely autistic ds. The best they could offer was b&b. We are now renting privately and getting help towards rent instead.

Sorry, meant to say if they haven't got large enough houses available, would they agree to subsidise rent if you went private?

they do or do in herts we now renting a private 5 bed , me and 4 dc but a eldest ds is 16 soon like 2 weeks so is entitled to own room and though dd7 and ds4 can share they agree and aceppted due to his sleeping etc he needs own room.Hence the 5 bedrooms which is big improvment on the 2 1/2 we had

well emailed letter this morning after being up from 3.45. Not sure it made sense but think i got the ain points in there. Also my led professinal for ds has said she will contact the social worker (we dont actually have one) to see if she an do anything

Let us know how you get on, fingers crossed for you.