Jobless mum of 11 gets council to build her luxury 6-bed £400k mansion
She moaned current house was "a nightmare" to live in
A JOBLESS mum of 11 is being built a brand new six-bedroom £400,000 mansion by her local council - because she reckons she is “struggling” in her two current homes.
Scrounger Heather Frost, 36, currently has two homes knocked into one to house her huge brood.
But after complaining for years that her property was a cramped “nightmare”, officials have agreed to hand her a 1,850sq ft eco home on a new housing development in a move branded “scandalous” by the Taxpayers Alliance.
The modern three-bedroom, two-storey pad will boast three bathrooms, two lounges and a plush 355 sq ft kitchen and dining area when she moves in in July.
It will also feature a wooden-clad exterior, enclosed front and rear gardens plus be energy efficient to help keep her bills down.
A local estate agent has estimated the value of the property to be around £400,000 after taking a look at the plans.
But brazen Frost, from Churchdown, near Gloucester, is already talking about asking for an even BIGGER property if this one isn’t to her liking.
The mum of nine girls and two boys - who first got pregnant aged 14 to a man who ended up in prison - said: “It's being built especially for me.
“If I go there and I say to them I don't like it or it's too small, then they will just have to build me a bigger one, won't they.”
'We had to go private for a while and I had seven children in a two-bed house.
“Then we got this three-bed house and they knocked a doorway through to the one next door.
“It was meant to be for four months but we've been here for five years now.
“It is a nightmare because you can't keep an eye on the children in the other house and there's only one door between them which is a fire risk.
“I've got the older children living over there while I am with the younger ones in this house. I think the new house is going to be ready in July and will have six beds.”
Frost first fell pregnant at just 14, to a 23-year-old boyfriend who ended up in prison.
She had her second child, Toby, with a different father when she was 17 and her brood now includes Sophie, Jay, Angel, Chloe, Bethany, and Paige.
And Frost, who was left sterile after a bout of cervical cancer in 2011, is already a grandmother as her eldest daughter Sophie, 22, has started her own brood with son Ashley, two.
Frost, who says she is currently married, said: "Some other mums have called me a slag but I love all of my children.
"I'd love to have more kids if I could."
Tewkesbury Borough Council came up with a solution to her situation by selling a plot of land in Tewkesbury to Severn Vale Housing Association for the knock-down price of £210,000.
The condition of the sale was that one of the 15 affordable homes they built on the site one would be a six-bedroom home for Frost.
Robert Oxley, campaign manager at the TaxPayers' Alliance, said: "It's scandalous that so much time and money is being spent on one custom-built mansion.
"Many people can't afford to buy their own home, but have to opt for what their budget allows.
"Benefits are there to help those who need support, not subsidise a lifestyle that most people paying for them could not afford themselves."
Frost hit the headlines in 2000 when her son Toby accidentally started a fire in their home.
A passing postman, Ken Young, spotted smoke billowing from the property and battled against smoke and flames to rescue two of Frost's many children.
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