Minimum single bedroom size

Crumble_

Hello, I’ve looked online but there’s many answers. Does anyone know the definite one to :-

What is the minimum bedroom size (squared) for a single bedroom for an adult.

Renovating the house and want it to be big enough to sell on as a bedroom when we do come to sell. At the moment it’ll be an office.

Many thanks in advance

EachPenny

Crumble_ wrote: »

Hello, I’ve looked online but there’s many answers. Does anyone know the definite one to :-

What is the minimum bedroom size (squared) for a single bedroom for an adult.

Renovating the house and want it to be big enough to sell on as a bedroom when we do come to sell. At the moment it’ll be an office.

Many thanks in advance

If it is going to be used as a HMO then the answer is in here:-
https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2018/616/regulation/2/made

If not a HMO (and no planning or building control consents are required), then I believe the answer is whatever minimum size your estate agent is willing to tell a prospective purchaser is a bedroom, whilst still keeping a straight face.

Crumble_

Cheers,

It’s not a HMO and it’s got roughly 55-60 square metres of room which is fine for a little office / study for us but what I don’t want when the time comes is the estate agent to come round and say ohhh you’ve turned your 3 bed into a 2 ....:cool:

theartfullodger

Overcrowding legislation....

ss 324,5&6 of HA 1985
http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1985/68/part/X/crossheading/definition-of-overcrowding

Applies to ALL properties, rented (private, council etc etc), home owners, HMOs etc etc - the lot.

And says a bedroom for a single adult must be at least 70 sq ft (or 6.5sq mtrs). (eg 7ft by 10ft). 'sfunny how many letting agents and estate agents appear to have absolutely no knowledge of this. Only 30+ years to find out about it...

See also
https://england.shelter.org.uk/housing_advice/repairs/check_if_your_home_is_overcrowded_by_law

00ec25

Crumble_ wrote: »

Cheers,

It’s not a HMO and it’s got roughly 55-60 square metres of room which is fine for a little office / study for us but what I don’t want when the time comes is the estate agent to come round and say ohhh you’ve turned your 3 bed into a 2 ....:cool:

then you need to go off and learn the metric measurement system

a standard bed is 1.9m long (6ft 3 inches) by 0.91m wide (3 ft)

a 60m2 room would be 3 beds long by 5+ beds wide. In other words it would occupy the space that some entire houses fit into

agrinnall

Crumble_ wrote: »

Cheers,

It’s not a HMO and it’s got roughly 55-60 square metres of room which is fine for a little office / study for us but what I don’t want when the time comes is the estate agent to come round and say ohhh you’ve turned your 3 bed into a 2 ....:cool:

I'm sure you can't really mean metres, and if you actually mean feet then I'd say that's plenty big enough for a single bedroom, the room that I use as an office was marketed as a single bedroom and is around 50 square feet.

JuzaMum

If you can get a bed in it the estate agent will call it a bedroom. I saw one house where the legs had been sawn off the bed at one end to fit it over the bulk head. It was hidden with the valance on the bed!
I bought my house as a 4 bed - bed 4 is 6'3" x 7'4". We thought this would fine for an office but has ended up as a bedroom as we had more children. Youngest son is happy not to be sharing a room.

Slithery

EachPenny wrote: »

If not a HMO (and no planning or building control consents are required), then I believe the answer is whatever minimum size your estate agent is willing to tell a prospective purchaser is a bedroom, whilst still keeping a straight face.

JuzaMum wrote: »

If you can get a bed in it the estate agent will call it a bedroom.

Both absolutely correct

EachPenny

theartfullodger wrote: »

Overcrowding legislation....
....
And says a bedroom for a single adult must be at least 70 sq ft (or 6.5sq mtrs). (eg 7ft by 10ft). 'sfunny how many letting agents and estate agents appear to have absolutely no knowledge of this. Only 30+ years to find out about it...

That's only for the purposes of overcrowding though, isn't it?

Those sections don't actually say it is unlawful to call a room a bedroom if it is under 70 sq ft (not even 50 sq ft), but only that rooms of under that size are not counted (or count as 0.5) for the purposes of calculating overcrowding.... and S327 makes it an offence for an occupier to cause or permit a dwelling to be overcrowded.

If you took a 3 bed semi which had one bedroom only being (say) 49 sq ft then it would still be legal to describe it as a 3 bed semi. If the Council were to investigate a claim of overcrowding then the third bedroom would be discounted, but the lounge or dining room would count. The occupier would only fall foul of the law if all the bedrooms were fully occupied, and all the 'living' rooms were used as sleeping accommodation too.

Out,_Vile_Jelly

Just call it a box room. How many adults who aren't students sleep in single rooms?