Council House Swap

In the first edition of the series about tenants exchanging homes, mum-of-four Beth wants to trade Mitcham in Surrey with somewhere more rural and soon has interest from three potential swappers in Hertfordshire and West Sussex.

In this second episode, Michael and Lucy from Barkby, Leicestershire, live in a large, and very tidy, three-bed house. Mum Lucy likes everything to be shipshape

A woman in Streatham, South London hates the area and her too-large house; a man wants to swap back to the hustle and bustle of the city. (

Dave and Fran are crammed into their two-bed flat with two teenagers, two toddlers and a dog at the picturesque town of Christchurch in Dorset.

Pagan, magician and medieval battle re-enactor Kirsten is looking to downsize from her four-bed semi in Wells, Somerset. Her first viewing is in Essex, followed by a 107 miles away in Guildford, Surrey. Elsewhere, young couple Liberty and Jordan want to swap their home in Bideford in north Devon.