Fed-up family of nine living in "severe threat" in an overcrowded three-bed house

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A family of nine have spent the past two years living in a three-bedroom council home - and they're now speaking out about the lack of help for larger families.

David Payne, 49, and his wife Danielle, 34, from Godalming in Surrey have seven children. The family was warned by Waverley Borough Council's own environmental health officer last November that the home is "seriously overcrowded" and poses a severe threat to the family's health and safety.

The youngest child who is two years old is forced to sleep in the parent's bedroom with them while the oldest who is 16 sleeps in the living room downstairs.

Meanwhile, the other five children share the remaining two bedrooms. Read more: Couple assault bin man and chase him down street after he refuses to empty bin Mr Payne said: "We don’t get anywhere with the council, they don’t communicate with us.