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Renting and room size minimums

noddynoo
noddynoo Posts: 346 Forumite
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We rented a house last summer and according to new laws the 2rd bedroom can no longer be classed as a bedroom It is less than 5' wide and can't fit a bed in anywhere. It is currently full of our storage things. Do you think the price should be reduced as it is now officially a 2 bed
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  • noddynoo
    noddynoo Posts: 346 Forumite
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    3rd not 2rd sorry
  • Alter_ego
    Alter_ego Posts: 3,842 Forumite
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    Which new laws?
    I am not a cat (But my friend is)
  • Guest101
    Guest101 Posts: 15,764 Forumite
    noddynoo wrote: »
    We rented a house last summer and according to new laws the 2rd bedroom can no longer be classed as a bedroom It is less than 5' wide and can't fit a bed in anywhere. It is currently full of our storage things. Do you think the price should be reduced as it is now officially a 2 bed



    No, it should be increased.
  • theartfullodger
    theartfullodger Posts: 15,989 Forumite
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    The law on room sizes has not changed recently. If you want to check OK dizes search "overcrowding" on Shelter's website
  • fairy_lights
    fairy_lights Posts: 9,220 Forumite
    Oh, was the room bigger when you moved in then?
  • AdrianC
    AdrianC Posts: 42,189 Forumite
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    The only thing that room sizes count for, legally, is assessing overcrowding. If you're using this room as storage, then that's clearly irrelevant - as is whether a bed fits or not.

    You were happy paying that amount of rent when you moved in. Nothing's changed.
  • Bubblecat
    Bubblecat Posts: 51 Forumite
    I may be wrong but I thought minimum bedroom sizes were only applicable to HMO's.
  • theartfullodger
    theartfullodger Posts: 15,989 Forumite
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    They apply to all properties, including owner/occupiers: People get very agitated when I point this out but afail nowhere in the 1985 Housing Act (Part X, s324 onwards..)
    http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1985/68/part/X
    - does it restrict this to HMOs.

    My usual £25 to an agreed housing charity if anyone can prove me wrong.
  • AdrianC
    AdrianC Posts: 42,189 Forumite
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    theartfullodger wrote: »
    They apply to all properties, including owner/occupiers: People get very agitated when I point this out but afail nowhere in the 1985 Housing Act (Part X, s324 onwards..)
    http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1985/68/part/X
    - does it restrict this to HMOs.

    My usual £25 to an agreed housing charity if anyone can prove me wrong.
    Wrong? No. Misleading? Perhaps.

    As that legislation makes very clear, those minimum room sizes ONLY apply to overcrowding questions. And there's no issue of that here, as the bedroom in question isn't even used as a bedroom, merely storage.

    Call it a tenner to charity?
  • always_sunny
    always_sunny Posts: 8,314 Forumite
    noddynoo wrote: »
    We rented a house last summer and according to new laws the 2rd bedroom can no longer be classed as a bedroom It is less than 5' wide and can't fit a bed in anywhere. It is currently full of our storage things. Do you think the price should be reduced as it is now officially a 2 bed

    You could give notice and move out if you don't like it now that you think the place got smaller.
    Isn't it the same size as when you rented the property or did it shrink?
    EU expat working in London
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