Anyone from Brighton - Downs, Balfour or Hertford Infnants?

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(Have posted this on local board too)

Presuming I have a choice, which I probably won't - any thoughts on these three. I am hoping I'll get a feeling for one of them when I go and visit, but would be good to get others' POV too.

As far as I'm aware pros and cons are:-

Downs - pros - mixed intake, for want of a better phrase 'down to earth', closest to home. Cons - on main road, big

Balfour - pros - excellent results, nice green location, poss merger of infants & juniors means no worry of getting place at juniors
Cons - quite middle class, too academic, merger into one big school

Hertford - pros - very small compared to others, nice homely feel & everyone knows each other
Cons - junior school apparently not so good, furthest walk!

Also, Downs is the closest, so if I preferred Balfour and put it as 1st choice but I was too far, would that reduced my chances of getting into Downs?

TIA