Hi,
New to Mumsnet, but looks like this might well be my last and only hope for good advice!
Long story short, I am petrified today after talking to school admissions at my local council -- was told we would have to sell the property we own at our previous address prior to applying schools for my son at our current address, which is an impossible task given the deadline of 15th Jan 2017!
We moved to the area we are living at now, a little over 2 months ago, knowing it being a better area to raise family etc. We are renting here atm, but had been looking to buy for over a year and did not manage to find anything suitable (and within budget).
Problem is we do own the previous property we lived in, and thought it might represent a problem when it comes to school applications, so have called the current council before the move. We were told back then that we will need to provide evidence that the previous address (which we own) is either sold or rented out. We had since put the property on rental market immediately after moving into the new area, and have now someone living in there on a long-term (12 months) rental contract.
This morning, I called our current council to ask for what kind of evidence I would need to provide in order to support my son's school application, for example, whether I need to upload tenancy agreement of the property that we own to prove we are not living there at the moment, hence our current address is our main residence, and to my complete shock, I was given a blunt NO(!) and that I will need to actually sell that property (not rented out) to prove the current address is our main residence!
I am still pretty much in shock, and do not know what to do since selling our previous property is certainly not an option, and we can not move back as well since it is currently rented out!
Please any help would be hugely appreciated.
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user1482261175 · 20/12/2016 19:44
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