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Having had chat about the various residency and shared residency issues, my solicitor led me to believe that my application for full residency would likely fail as i'm planing on living with my parents (..in a very well to do suburb of nottingham) as they only have a 2 bed house (large as it is) Their living room has a sofabed which is very nice to use, but some doubt was cast over this as a formal plan.
In the event of residency being granted however,i'd plan to have an extension/alternation built to the garage to convert into 3rd bedroom which I would hope allay any fears of an unsuiable house. it'd also free up hundreds of £££'s a month in rent and bills for me, so would financially set me up very nicely to support my daughter, and my folks are quite young and very active and absolutely loved by my wee one too.
Anyone here come across similar, housing issues in this way? How did you counter it at all...?
I would possibly start by applying for outline planning permission (I think it's still called that) to do the conversion - firstly, you need to know that this will be allowed (probably will be), but it also gives you something in writing to show the court that you are serious about the idea and that you can make adequate provisions for space.
When I did this years ago, initially, we converted an area of the house to accommodate my two daughters to give them privacy and somewhere to sleep, which was enough for the interim order - by the time we went to court for the final order, the foundations were down and building had started, so with a conversion (ours was a completely new extension), you could be much quicker to provide a new room.
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