what age to a boy & girl have to be in sepeare bedrooms

[herefordbull]

hi i have 2 daughters aged 4&2 and 1 son at 9months and currently live in a 2 bed council flat can you please tell me at what age is our son not allowed to stay in our room and at what age my daughters cannot stay in the same room with himis there any legal grounds where as the council would have to move us into a bigger property

[mj8183]

i think it depends on the area you live in, as when i lived in london my eldest had to be 5, but now in east anglia he hs to be 10. hope this helps.

[bednobs]

if you want a bigger house why not try private renting?

The council can take other rooms that arent bedrooms into account ie living rooms that you could easily make into a bedroom, and anyway, it wont come up for years yet

[bednobs]

i just had a look round on some council websitesites
children of either sex can share till they are 10 seems to be the average, and they can take living rooms into account so therefore, it may be that you are never entiltled to get a bigger house as, for example youngest son and daughter could share 2nd bedroom for next 8 years, and older girl has living room as bedroom. Then when middle child is 10, the girls share together and boy has living room as bedroom. of course, it will depend on what your partcular council has as their rules, so it might be worth looking at their website, or contacting them

[tigwig]

if you are concerned about this then maybe you should stop having so many children if you can't afford to pay for them yourself. why should taxpayers have to fund you and your kids to live in a bigger property?

[bednobs]

the other thing i meant to say is that even if the council assesses you as needing more bedrooms, there is no garuntee you will get them or get them within a specific time, after all they put people in order of priority.
By the way there is no "law" about it as such - if you had your own house noone would care whether you had enough bedrooms or not

[Ethel]

As they are brothers and sisters it is immaterial - their ageing is 'natural growth' and doesn't count as overcrowding.

Overcrowding is only allowed if it is:

* due to natural growth (such as a child reaching one of the specified ages (see above)

http://england.shelter.org.uk/advice/advice-64 97.cfm

So the council, housing association or anybody else is not legally obliged to rehouse you into a bigger house. When your son gets to an age you are uncomfortable with him sharing with your daughters, he can have your bedroom and you can sleep in the living room.

[daffy654]

tigwig,how is the taxpayer funding this person in any way?he or she hasn't said they are in reciept of housing benefit,just that they need more bedrooms.Council housing is not funded by the taxpayer,the tenant still has to pay rent.

[happyjo]

tigwig

Stop pushing your personal opinions on others. If you want to rant about life do it in chatterbank. You know nothing of this persons circumstances, yet you choose to ram your opinion down their throat.

She asked for legal advice... not your personal opinion. Get out of your ivory tower and get a life.

J

[herefordbull]

thanks for everyone's advice and just to clear it up both me and my partner work full time we employ a babysitter in which we pay for and our both proud of the fact that we dont relay on benefits iam currenty looking for for private accomadation but as am 24 i need a garentour which i dont have my also doesnt have a golden credit history so were stuck with the council so tigwig next time you wish to post a answer get the facts first not everyone is on benefits as you seem to think