National minimum bedroom size

[AtW]

"A national minimum bedroom size could be introduced under plans to combat overcrowding and rogue landlords.

Local authorities in England could ban rooms smaller than 6.5 sq m from being let as bedrooms in licence applications for multiple occupancy houses.

The Department for Communities and Local Government is setting out the plans in a discussion paper.

Housing minister Brandon Lewis said some landlords provided "simply unacceptable" living accommodation.

The paper, announced by Mr Lewis, sets out plans to improve standards of shared homes by extending mandatory licensing to smaller and medium-sized properties.

Any landlord who fails to obtain a licence would be liable to pay a potentially unlimited fine.

Mr Lewis said: "It is simply unacceptable that people are living in cramped, unsafe accommodation provided by landlords who are more interested in a quick profit than the safety or welfare of their tenants.

"The actions of these rogue landlords are helping fuel illegal working, benefit fraud, and illegal immigration by creating a shadow housing market that carries dangers to people's health as well as communities."

Local authorities would be able to apply the rules to more shared homes than they can currently, including those that are one or two storeys high

The paper also aims to see the rules applied to poorly converted blocks of flats, located above and below shops, which are often exempt from existing rules."

Source: Minimum rented bedroom size proposed by government - BBC News

[Scruff]

65m²

[MicrosoftBob]

That's going to hit ICT's if they can't live 20 to a room

[NibblyPig]

Let's solve the housing crisis by kicking people out and making them even more desperate!

[AtW]

That's going to hit ICT's if they can't live 20 to a room

It's not 6.5 sq meters per PERSON, it's PER ROOM.

So MFs Plan Z is still a go ...

[GJABS]

I can see a workaround for this: Have large rooms 6.5 meters square. But have them only 2 feet high, flat as a pancake.
You could fit five rooms each on top of the next in the space of one existing room.
Like Japanese capsule hotels, only larger (horizontally).

[AtW]

I can see a workaround for this: Have large rooms 6.5 meters square. But have them only 2 feet high, flat as a pancake.
You could fit five rooms each on top of the next in the space of one existing room.
Like Japanese capsule hotels, only larger (horizontally).

[centurian]

The smallest bedroom in my house is now the study - it's 2.4m x 2.4m, which is about 5.75sqm, so would be considered too small by this definition.

Yes, it's on the small side, but it was a bedroom before, could quite comfortably fit a single bed and a wardrobe. Little room for much else, but quite live-able.

Geek mode - the room is also 2.4m high, so the room is very close to be a perfect cube.

[FatLazyContractor]

Dear AtW,

I just converted my outhouse into a bedroom for my maid. I have attached the photo after conversion.

I don't charge her for staying in it. Will I be alright?

Thanks,
FLC

[chopper]

Where's the curtains?

I wonder if people would be able to claim that rooms under 6.5sq.m are not bedrooms for the purpose of bedroom tax calculations?

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