sharing rooms.

[welly_2003]

Hi,

I am on the wiating list with my local council , i am only entitled to a 1 bed property..which would be fine if i was living on my own, but i have a 5 year old daughter .
I was just wondering if any body knew what the age limit was when she is not allowed to be sharing the same room as me.

Thanks

Welly

[bednobs]

there is no need to invoke an age limit in this scenario. You could easily have a sofa bed in the living room of a flat that you sleep on while she has the bedroom, if you are not happy to share (or the other way round)

[bednobs]

and that's how the council will see it

[redcrx]

bednobs is right. The council wil take the livingroom into account.
why not look at renting a place privately if you dont want to share a room.

[Sasha13]

I am not sure, but I would have thought that there was no legal age limit for a daughter to share with a mother (assuming you are a mother, which may be wrong). I shared a bedroom with my mum when I was 15 through unavoidable circumstances.

[jb190281]

it is only if you have custody of a child that the council will make you eligible for 2 bed property. also, LHA will only be awarded on a 2 bed if you are in receipt of child benefit.

[aims1202]

you should be entitled to a 2 bed if you have 1 child, they do not take the living room into account and this applies from birth. if you have 2 children and they are different sex and with a 5yr or more gap then you are entitled to a 2 bed. it doesnt mean you will get one straight away though!

[redcrx]

a living room IS included.
http://www.charnwood.gov.uk/pages/overcrowding
and two people of opposite sex (unless cohabitting couple) are classed as being able to share a room unless ove the age of 10 or 12.

at the end of the day though, you cant be moved into property that doesnt exist. Your best bet if you want a larger property is, as i said before, to look at renting a private property rather than relying on the council to move you.

[Goodsoulette]

Redcrx has a point. Housing stocks are so limited at the moment, private is really the only way to get what you want exactly. If you have full time custody of your five year old daughter it seems highly unlikely that they would allocate you just one bedroom, you must be in an area that is extraordinarily stretched for them to make that decision. Consider private or moving your application to another council area.

[zzxxee]

when i was a single mum i had to share a room in my flat with my then 2 year old daughter, if the room is big enough you could divide it off with a slideing door like i did

[cazzz1975]

unless you try for an exchange I think private renting is the only way to go, council have more applicants than stock and even people who are in the top ten of the waiting list are waiting years for a move.

[Kathabz]

My daughter was told by our local council that she could not move into a one bedroom flat as soon as the baby was born. She was only considered for a 2 bedroom flat.

Perhaps the answer here is to live in Scotland! Sorry things are tough for you. Wishing you well.

[trish432]

Yes, I think it depends on the rules of your local council, as far as I know, in our town you would be entitled to two bedrooms.

[smurfy83]

i used to live in an old two bedroom terrance how ,at the time my daughter was 13 and my son was 3 years old ,he was in my room watching me have fits throught the nite in which it scared him so bad,so i ended up sleeping downstairs,so i had a boy and girl ,so i was entiled to a 3 bedroom house as the age limit is 11 years upwardsif u have a son and daughter my did sleep in my daughters room but he used to wake her int he night, so there fore so could not wake up 4 school,reason i had to put my son in my bedroom i have a lot of medical problem,so on the grounds of getting a 3 bed house councill came to insept my 2 bed house told me im fine it get sleep up to 8 people i was gobsmacked there were no houses going told i would to wait 4 years even with a docs letter , i suffered very bad with all this giving me stress my neighbours drank all day ,so bascially i fitted evrything to get a 3 bed house didnt get 1 i moved out to rent private then u have to look urself,it took ten weeks from finding somewhere and finding a landladie/lord to take on housing benifit,then ur bond.