Arnold Mballe Sube and his wife Jeanne, 33, both unemployed with eight children have refused a new five-bedroom home offered them by the Luton Borough Council because it didn’t have a dining room.

Mr Sube moved his family to Britain from France in 2012 so he could study mental health nursing at the University of Bedfordshire.

According to a report by the Dailymail, the family currently live in a three bedroom, end-of-terrace home in Luton, Bedfordshire, which they claim is not in a good condition with their eight young children but turned down the council’s offer of a five bedroom house because it was not large enough and did not have a dining room.  They want a property with at least six double bedrooms for them to live comfortably.

Mr Sube, said, “Me and my family have been neglected, we are living in a three bedroom house and there’s not enough room for us to live – there’s ten of us”.

“It’s so cramped and the conditions are terrible, my children are starting school and we can’t stay here any longer – we need a bigger house”.

“The council is trying to make things hard for us, my wife is a full time mother and I am a student”.

“They’re just making excuses, we need a five or six bedroom house with double rooms to comfortably fit our family in.’

“There wasn’t space for the things of ten people, it didn’t even have a dining room”, he added.

Luton Borough Council housed the family in a hotel for four months before moving to their current home.

A spokesman from Luton Borough Council said: ‘Housing stock in Luton, is under constant pressure and on occasions we may have to locate families temporarily outside of Luton.