This has been the situation with us, for the last 18 months, 1 attic room, 2 bedrooms and front parlour used as 4th bedroom. Gas fire of course had to be capped off in parlour, otherwise not legal as a bedroom. Also need to remember if downstairs is used as a bedroom will need a smoke alarm on that floor, or attic room if used as bedroom. Usually when fire brigade come out they put them on the landing, but when they were talking to us and discovered people sleeping on all floors, they put 2 extra in for us.
Lived in a 3 bed council house at one time , when there were 8 of us, 2 adults and 6 kids. 4 bed council properties are few and far between. We did get offered one at one stage, but it was one of the estates you wouldn't really choose. Would rather stay a little cramped and cosy, than take it. Got to admit, even having a large family myself, there is a limit I think to how far the council, or HH as it now is, should go to accommodate us (lol, pardon the pun), and if we choose to have larger families, we should work round that problem.
