Housing standard - overcrowding standards
A property is considered to be overcrowded if either the room standard or the space standard is exceeded.
Room Standard:
There should be sufficient rooms in each individual letting so that no male and female aged 12, or over, should have to sleep in the same room, unless they are living together as ‘husband and wife’
Number of rooms |
Maximum number of people |
1 |
2 |
2 |
3 |
3 |
5 |
4 |
7.5 |
5 or more |
2 for each room |
Space Standard:
The standard specifies the maximum number of people who can sleep in any room considered suitable for use as a sleeping room and the maximum number who may sleep in any individual letting when taking into account the number of sleeping rooms available to the occupants.
Floor area of the room |
Maximum number of people |
10.2 m.sq. or more |
2 |
Between 8.3m.sq. and 10.2m.sq. |
1.5 |
Between 6.5m.sq. and 8.3m.sq. |
1 |
Between 4.6m.sq. and 6.5m.sq. |
0.5 |
New Standard
The above standard which has been largely unchanged since 1957 is being absorbed into the new Housing Health and Safety Rating System which will come into force 1 st April 2006
For Further Information
Steve Cleworth
Environmental Health Officer
Council Offices
Wallace Green
Berwick-upon-Tweed
TD15 1ED
Tel. 01289 301822
Fax 01289 330540
email shc@berwick-upon-tweed.gov.uk
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