A BRIDGWATER man is calling on the council to help his familty, as he fears his his wife will be made homeless in three weeks.

Dean Hebron and his wife Ashleigh, along with their seven children, discovered that their landlord would be selling the rented property in which Ashleigh lives shortly.

With such a large family, and all the children settled into Bridgwater schools, Dean says they need to be in housed in the town.

"My family are about to be made homeless," said Dean, 33.

"I live in a small flat share in Bridgwater currently, but my wife lives in Taunton as we split up briefly.

"We're back together but a large family can't live in a flat share and my wife is about to lose the property.

"There are nine of us - me, my wife and seven children, three of which are disabled.

"We found out a few months ago that our landlord was selling the property- nice to see they honoured the long term lease- we had only been here a year so just long enough to settle the kids into school and put down some roots.

"As our family is so large, we needed to find a house big enough so we started searching the private sector.

"However as my wife is a full time carer for our boys and I have mental health issues, we found that a lot of landlords would not accept DSS families.

"We then approached Sedgemoor District Council and were given a housing officer that I think has forgotten about us.

"We are now in the situation that we have three weeks to wait until the bailiffs charge in and evict us and as you can understand, we are scared out of our minds as we have no plan B."

The house Dean and family currently live in is on Ashley Avenue.

Sedgemoor District Council offered them temporary emergency accommodation in Highbridge, but the family refused, claiming they need to be in Bridgwater.

"Our son Logan has autism and attends Penrose School.

"The school has been absolutely fantastic with him and his brother Alex, who also has autism, is due to start there in September.

"We have a daughter at Hamp and our two teenagers at Robert Blake.

"We really don't mind what the accommodation we have, just something big enough- I'm reluctant to rent privately because of what's happened with our current private landlord."

Sedgemoor District Council have said the family have not been forgotten about.

A spokesperson said: "This household have been accepted as homeless by Sedgemoor District Council; and have been awarded priority on Homefinder Somerset for Social Housing.

"However, large family accommodation is limited across the county of Somerset and even more so in Bridgwater which is where we understand is where this family wish to live.

"We have recommended they also look for accommodation in the private rented sector; Sedgemoor may assist with upfront costs if it is affordable and suitable.

"Sedgemoor District Council has temporary accommodation that can be utilised to accommodate households who are homeless and this has been and will again be offered to this household."