School appeal - moving into area

[PopRay80]

Hello.
My DD is starting secondary school in September.
When I applied for the school in November, we did not live in the area and I put on the application that we were about to put our house on the market and planning to move to the town where the secondary schools are.
In February our house sale started going through and we are purchasing a house in the town (exchange in a couple of weeks).
In March we found out the school my DD has is a 45 min walk from our new house and we want her in our first choice school (20 mins walk away).
We have put in a school appeal on the following grounds:

• DD does not know the area and allocated school is a long walk on busy roads (she is not streetwise due to the quiet town we live in now);
• DD has never been on buses alone;
• DD’s friends will be in a different part of town to where we will be living;
• DD is an anxious child and loves school. Worried she will not want to go school if she is worried about walk/bus to school;
• I know people in the area we are moving to and they all tell me that they don’t know any kids in the area that go to her allocated school;
• I spoke to staff at allocated school and they don’t know many kids that live where will be living.

When we go to the appeal, we would have exchanged but not moved yet. What are our chances of winning??

To correct some of the posts on here, where OP lives is entirely irrelevant for appeal. An appeal is not "based on" any address. However, as many have said, OP's grounds for appeal won't fly. None of the grounds suggested are a basis for winning an appeal unless the school's case is so weak that any appeal will succeed. OP needs to identify things the appeal school offers that are not available at the allocated school and are particularly relevant to her daughter. If she can show that her daughter will be disadvantaged if she isn't admitted, she will have a chance.

@prh47bridge

To correct some of the posts on here, where OP lives is entirely irrelevant for appeal

It is relevant as we were 2nd waiting list for big school with catchment area within probably 2 miles of school & we are about 500m out of catchment. A couple of people were not yet living in catchment but put in late applications after places had been issued & suddenly we were 4th on waiting list. So they hadn't even moved yet but got priority over us. DD was already at the school & they still said no. It turned out for the best in my opinion anyway. Sometimes fate intervenes.

All that demonstrates is that your address was relevant to your position on the waiting list. It does not in any way contradict my point that where you live is irrelevant for appeals.