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• A 0.5 person is classed as a child of the ages of 1-10 years; after age of 10 the child becomes 1 person in the calculation.

• Babies can share with their parents if under 1 year old.

• Children of opposite sex can only share a bedroom up to the age of 10 years old.

• Children cannot share a bedroom with an adult apart from the biological Mother or Father.

• Siblings aged over 10 years cannot share a bedroom with another of the opposite sex who is under 10 years old.

 

The room standard is as follows:

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• Number of rooms = 1 then number of people/persons = 2

• Number of rooms = 2 then number of people/persons = 3

• Number of rooms = 3 then number of people/persons = 5

• Number of rooms = 4 then number of people/persons = 7.5

• Number of rooms = 5 or more then number of people/persons = 2 for each room

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In addition to the above, the following basic standards apply:

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• There must be at least one toilet and wash hand basin for every five inhabitants.

• There must be a fully functional kitchen (e.g. stoves, oven and hot and cold running water into a sink) that can support both the current and proposed number of occupants.

• There must be a fixed heating system in the property (e.g. heating in every habitable room).

• The property must be in a good state of repair with no serious defects (e.g. electrics, plumbing, roof, gutters, doors, windows etc.).