Helen - I don't have any advice but I plan to do the same thing as you. I know if we bought a bassinet we'd end up with it in our bedroom and that is not going to be practical seeing as my DH is a shift worker. As Tanstar mentioned, follow the SIDS guidelines and you should be fine. It's a bit overwhelming isn't it with all the info you read.
I've put number 1, 2 and now number 3 in cot straight up (when not asleep in rocker or portacot or on playmat) and so far no problems - mine tend to like being wrapped for a while so I just do this and follow SIDS as best I can and they seem happy. Couldn't see the point of a bassinette myself when I wasn't looking at having them in my room and didn't have a previous child taking up the cot still.
I think its also the fact that in the first few weeks a lot of mothers/fathers want to be near their newborn, and its much easier setting up a bassinette or cradle in your room rather than a huge cot.....
The only thing I've heard is to make sure young babies are put down the bottom of the cot so they can't slip down and under the covers. If you don't wish to co-sleep there is no reason not to go straight to a cot I wouldn't think. I certainly wouldn't buy a bassinette, they don't last very long!
I was going to put DS in a cotbed from birth, until my mother intervened and bought a moses basket.
TBH, DS ended up in my bed more than his own! He went into his cotbed age 6m and OK he would have looked tiny in there from birth it wouldn't have been a bad option - so long as we used sleeping bags and not covers.
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