Family-of-13 living in eight-bedroom house fear being made homeless
dailyrecord.co.ukA family-of-13 are afraid that they will soon be made homeless after being handed an eviction notice from the council. Clifford Westfall and Clair Patterson live in an eight-bedroom house with their nine children.
Both Clifford's and Clair's brothers also live with them as they require extra care support. However, the distraught parents are concerned that their family could soon be torn apart after Bradford Council told them that they must leave their Keighley home of two-and-a-half years by January 26.
Yorkshire Live reports they even fear they could be forced to move into a hostel if they are unable to find another property by the deadline.
Clifford, aged 37, said: "All we want to do is be together as a family."The couple pay £1,000 a month for the privately-rented property in Green Head Road and are desperate to remain in the area.Their seven youngest children all go to school in Keighley and the family business, a toy shop in the town centre, is just a mile away.Clair said: "If we lived elsewhere, it would be physically impossible for me to get seven kids to four different schools and then get to work.
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