Housing legislation

[linsmit]

Is there any government legislation regarding children sharing a bedroom? I have been told there is. Where would I access this informaion so that I an review it. Can you help me please.

[Strauss]

These are the standards that are used to decide if a home is overcrowded. It seems that the age of 10 is a maximum when the children are of opposite sexes.

2. The current national statutory overcrowding standards (the Room Standard and the Space Standard) are set out in Part X of the Housing Act 1985. Under the Housing Act a dwelling is overcrowded if either of the standards is contravened:
The Room Standard is breached if two people of opposite sexes who are not living together as husband and wife must sleep in the same room. Living rooms and kitchens as well as bedrooms can be treated as available sleeping accommodation. Children under 10 do not count.

The Space Standard specifies the number of people who may sleep in a dwelling according to the number of rooms and their floor area. Two calculations are required and the lower number applies. Babies under one year do not count, and children under 10 count as half.
3. The Bedroom Standard
A standard number of bedrooms required is calculated for each household in accordance with its age/sex/marital status composition and the relationship of the members to one another. A separate bedroom is required for each married or cohabiting couple, for any other person aged 21 or over, for each pair of adolescents aged 10 - 20 of the same sex, and for each pair of children under 10. Any unpaired person aged 10 - 20 is paired, if possible with a child under 10 of the same sex, or, if that is not possible, he or she is counted as requiring a separate bedroom, as is any unpaired child under 10.

[pink-kittens]

You ight find this bit, edited form the copy and paste by Strauss, more useful for a quick check

As a general rule:

1 room = 2 people
2 rooms = 3 people
3 rooms = 5 people
4 rooms = 7.5 people
5 or more rooms = 2 people per room.

[dzug]

The regulations are about whether the house is overcrowded, not about whether it is allowed to happen at all.

In reality it will get you a little higher up the waiting list for a bigger house, not an immediate move.

[pink-kittens]

Thinking about it you may even fair better on the exchange list - some people wish to down size

[factor-fiction]

The following thread may be of interest.
http://www.theanswerbank.co.uk/Family/Question 773559.html