How many bedrooms is adequate?

SingleSue

I didn't have a bedside cabinet until I moved into my own home...can't for the life of me remember what I used to do at home, think I put my things on the windowsill to be honest.

MrsE_2

pipkin71 wrote: »

Will you be pushing the coffee table to the side, and blowing up an air bed when we come to stay then?

I'll be laying out the red carpet hun;)

sjaypink

pipkin71 wrote: »

I'm waiting for an adapted property, as we wont be able to stay in this one long term. I have a grabby / pointy stick thing

They have raised the plug sockets actually so now I don't have to reach down to put plugs in / pull them out ect. No problems with the light switches.

I believe hallways / doors are wider in new builds. I need a wider hallway and front door, and they can't do that here.

thats true, the last place i lived i could push the double buggy through the front and living room doors, but couldnt quite get it through here

back to op, if anyone still actually cares
i am quite happy with 3 beds for me & the 4 kids, would be happy to have one more kid in the space here (not that i will be having one!). my best friend at school shared a room with 2 sisters, they were all very close and to be honest i was rather jealous!

PasturesNew

About 25 years ago I had a friend who was 13 and still shared her parents' bedroom, that was a council house. Her two sisters (aged 19 and 22) had the other/smaller bedroom. On reflection, that was crazy, the parents should have given up the largest room and had all 3 girls in the biggest room, but some people weren't issued with brains. They also had two downstairs living rooms, so that was a 4-room house. At weekends, my friend was allowed to sleep in the touring caravan on the front drive.

It's not just now that there's been a shortage of council housing.

In the same village, I had a friend who had a boy of about 8 and a girl of about 2.... they shared a room, but he bullied the girl (would climb in her bed, poo, wipe it on the walls, to get her in trouble) because his dad wasn't living there, but the girl's dad did live with them. Then when he got older he started abusing her (in the bad way), but still the council couldn't rehouse them as they had no 3 beds. I think he was about 15 before they were moved.

silvercar

These days the smallest bedroom often becomes the study.

PN I think you need a chalet style house, so the upstairs is much smaller than downstairs.

PasturesNew

silvercar wrote: »

These days the smallest bedroom often becomes the study.

PN I think you need a chalet style house, so the upstairs is much smaller than downstairs.

If you live alone, there's no point going to other rooms for one function, just live in the one space. Having spare rooms really is a pain in the bum.

delain

PasturesNew wrote: »

I think it would be a good idea to have more cooperative housing schemes, where single parents and their kids live in a bunch of houses with their own space and shared facilities of garden/laundry/common room, with an "office" and resident landlord on site. With so many in one area, they could have a babysitting circle and go out to work part-time by sharing their caring duties. They would also be able to learn from each other how to do stuff. It'd be easier for health visitors/etc to visit them en masse too - and the resident landlord would be there to ensure they acquire "good neighbour" skills and it isn't one seething hotbed of cheap fat slutz and dope.

Near where i live there are a bunch of 'temporary' 2 bed flats where they put 'emergency' tenants whilst they wait to be housed, and they use a similar system
although not staffed.. Would you want to wake your 3 month old baby so you can do the washing? or put up with having to be face to face with your neighbours all the time? in social backgrounds there can be a lot of tension and mini 'wars' have been known to break out and tenants being bullied so they cannot even do their washing at all, or even leave the house! Plus the flats are all in awful condution.

The ides you have suggested is like sticking all the single mums in a 'camp' and you can guarantee that once people knew where it was no one from there would get a job as even the most capable mums who may end up there would be deemed 'unable to look after herself, let alone get a job', and families would be stuck there for ever. :rolleyes:

And what happens when the local 'terroriser' moves in? Oh yes, life becomes hell for everyone else, things get stolen, people get mugged, beaten and are afraid to leave their mini flats. and what will be done to stop it? Nothing, and that would be terrible for the kids involoved :rolleyes:
Original idea but i hope to god it never gets implemented.

lemonjelly

Having worked in housing, I would state that the maximum number of bedrooms will be equivalent to the number of people in the household. Spare rooms are not allowed! Remember, as either a HA or council, social housing is based upon need. Therefore, a lone parent with 1 child only needs a 2 bed property. And that is all that will be offered to them.

The Housing Corporation would be on you like a ton of bricks if you let a 2 person household into a 3 bed house.

You cannot let a property on the basis that the tenants are likely/planning to have more kids. That is dealt with when they have them.

As an aside, most HA's/councils count children under 10 as being half a person, and do not include babies under 1 year (especially when considering overcrowding) as a person at all. I'm sure you can imagine the amount of arguments I've had with people on the waiting list or wanting a transfer to a bigger property!

Ste_C

A house should only need 3 bedrooms as couples should not be allowed to have more than 2 children.

The planet is full and people breeding like feral rats isn't helping. But people seem a bit too thick and too selfish to realise that one child to replace the mother and one to replace the father is ideal.

Gorgeous_George

zzzLazyDaisy wrote: »

... The flat is hardly big enough to swing a cat, ...

Maybe that is why many landlords do not allow pets

GG