Minimum bedroom size - social housing

Slithery

gettingready wrote: »

Anyone who keeps on asking same question over and over again - please see the opening post. That is all.

Anyone who keeps refusing to answer any relevant questions when repeatedly asked - please expect no useful or relevant advice.

The route that you need to take depends on what outcome you are looking for and why you want to get it reclassified. Until you tell us your reasoning you may as well just ask monkeys with typewriters.

Kentish_Dave

gettingready wrote: »

If anyone can answer my question that will be great.
Unhelpful,nasty comments - no idea what for but I know how to scroll past those.

Ah, sorry, you are one of those who only want people to post what they want to hear. It’d have helped if you’d made that clear upfront.

With this sort of attitude towards people trying to help it’s shocking to find that you’ve ended up where you are in life...

Kentish_Dave

gettingready wrote: »

Theartfullodger - many thanks for that.

Someone (adult - included in rental agreement) does sleep in the room - impossible to sleep in with doors closed as literally no air to breathe and can not leave window open as the part that foes open is VERY big and anyone could get in. Ground floor.
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Now you are becoming hysterical. If there was literally no air to breathe they would die.

If you have such high standards then as I wrote above, the answer is for you to take control of your destiny and rent or buy somewhere suitable.

Beggars, after all, can’t generally be choosers.

Kentish_Dave

gettingready wrote: »

Wawwwww CSI/Criminal Minds all rolled into one here - you people really have nothing better to do than run your imaginary theories on a post that really is very simple?

Room is way to small to be called a bedroom. That is all.

Have a good evening everyone

Yet you want to still have someone sleep in it, so it clearly is big enough to be a bedroom.

You want to keep it as a bedroom yet not pay for it as one.

I hope that they do remove the partition given your attitude here.

t0rt0ise

Unfortunately OP, as you have found out, anyone who talks about social housing here gets treated badly. Perhaps others will learn from your post that social housing tenants are not welcome here. It has always been thus.

onwards&upwards

t0rt0ise wrote: »

Unfortunately OP, as you have found out, anyone who talks about social housing here gets treated badly. Perhaps others will learn from your post that social housing tenants are not welcome here. It has always been thus.

Social tenants are very welcome, when they aren’t rude!

If OP had been upfront about what they were actually after, they might have got useful advice.

As it is, from what I can gather, they have a 2 bed flat where the 2nd bedroom is small, but does need to be used as a bedroom because there is a 2nd person living there the OP doesn’t want to share a bed with.

They may want to be moved, to get the rent reduced or to get the wall knocked down and kick the other person out for all we know!

gettingready

t0rt0ise wrote: »

Unfortunately OP, as you have found out, anyone who talks about social housing here gets treated badly. Perhaps others will learn from your post that social housing tenants are not welcome here. It has always been thus.

Precisely. The question was simple. The answer should have been simple.
Yet the nastiness in the replies - amazing amount.


Bedroom too small to be classified as a bedroom. That is nothing to do with anything else so no need for any further explanations from my side as I already explained what the issue is . Purely size/measurements/layout etc NOT meeting the minimum bedroom standard. That is all.

Yet people feel they can be rude, accusing me of whatever they wish to accuse me off and I even seen a "beggar" thrown in my direction.

Interesting.

On a side note, people who claim benefits, have this size of room discarded for the HB purpose and the "bedroom tax" is not applied. Yet if one does not claim any benefits then suddenly something of a size of a broom cupboard is a bedroom.

Again - interesting.

gettingready

onwards&upwards wrote: »

Social tenants are very welcome, when they aren’t rude!

If OP had been upfront about what they were actually after, they might have got useful advice.

As it is, from what I can gather, they have a 2 bed flat where the 2nd bedroom is small, but does need to be used as a bedroom because there is a 2nd person living there the OP doesn’t want to share a bed with.

They may want to be moved, to get the rent reduced or to get the wall knocked down and kick the other person out for all we know!

My opening post states clearly and exactly what the question is and why.

Where exactly was I rude to anyone?

Does anyone share a bed with their adult child?

Jesus Christ - look where your "assumptions" are taking you.

All needed information is in my opening post - anything else are assumptions on the part of those replying.


Again- room too small to be classified as a bedroom. Want to change flat classification from 2 bedroom to what it really is, a 1 bedroom. Don't add silly stories and assumptions to it.

Kentish_Dave

t0rt0ise wrote: »

Unfortunately OP, as you have found out, anyone who talks about social housing here gets treated badly. Perhaps others will learn from your post that social housing tenants are not welcome here. It has always been thus.

Of course they are. Sadly though all too many have a breathtaking sense of entitlement, as in the case here, and so of course this gives all the decent ones a bad name.

Not all are like the OP, but it’s seemingly mainly the ones who are who post on here.

The flat that I use in the week is quite a strange design, it has a very good sized living area but four tiny bedrooms where two or three would make more sense. It would never, ever occur to me to whine about it or ask for a reduction in rent, despite is costing me the thick end of three thousand pounds a month in rent. If I don’t like it I know that the right thing to do is to find somewhere else.

I can’t get my head around the fact that some families get heavily subsidised housing like this and still find reasons to complain.

csgohan4

So OP answer the questions


Why do you feel you need a bigger second bedroom? Do you have a human with a disability needing a larger room e.g needing a hoist?




I used to live in a HA house, was small but generally grateful for what we were given many years ago, in Hulme, Manchester, generally a very run down area 30 years ago full of druggies and not very nice people, even got burgled twice. But no regrets as still had a roof over our heads.


If you wanted a bigger/nicer one, work for it like everyone else. Beggars can't be choosers.


There are many people with families who would bite your hand off to be given a 2 bedroom HA and yes beggars/homeless too but clearly you have taken the adage literally.


Do you feel entitled to a larger house? Justify it to the HA on need, not on technicalities of alleged undersize which with the HA won't wash