Our local London council gave recently abolished catchments. You are now allocated a place at a school based on absolute distance from the school. This makes sense except that our nearest school is now apparently not the one 10 mins walk away but the one 30 mins walk away. This is because in absolute distance terms the 2nd school is 50m closer BUT this includes a large graveyard surrounded by 8 foot walls- practically we will have to walk 30 mins down to the main road, along and round which takes 30 mins to walk.
This seems mad! Does anyone have any experience of appealing this? Is there anything we can do?
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whinetaster · 03/08/2015 11:03
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