A FAMILY of five living in a damp-ridden two-bedroom flat have criticised Wycombe District Council for failing to rehouse them.

Sarah Pearce, of Britnell Court, Stokenchurch, lives in the tiny third-floor flat with her partner, Lee Wilde, a lorry driver, and her three young children

Miss Pearce said: "I have been in this flat for five years.

"It's rank. There is mould growing everywhere.

"The two bedrooms have mould growing on the windows and there is even mould that grows in my daughter's cot and on the pillows."

Miss Pearce claims that her doctor has put down repeated bouts of catarrh and respiratory problems in her children aged 11 months, 21 months and five years to the state of the £67 per week flat.

She added: "We would like just to have a normal house on a normal road.

"I can't even take my kids to the park because they are so young they all go off in different places.

"I have to sleep in the living room on the sofa because the bedroooms are not big enough to even get beds into."

Wycombe District Council said that they had already made an attempt to rehouse the family but they had turned it down.

A spokesman said: "Miss Pearce is currently on the council's transfer list and has recently been offered a three-bedroom property in an area of her choice, which she has turned down this week."

He could not say when another offer would be made.