Honeywell school - home visit

[Patfrench]

Hello,
Happy new year to all. Has anyone experience of a home visit from Honeywell for a reception application? Me and my daughter moved a couple of months ago in the area (very close to the school so definitely within the catchment) and I have applied, but unfortunately the flat we moved in is causing me some problems and might need some work done (bathroom plumbing and a couple of other things) so I'm thinking of temporarily going back to my old address (outside catchment) for a couple of weeks (or more depending on works) and wondering if Honeywell does homevisits and how that is organised (when/any flexibility on arranging date etc). Any advice/feedback welcome!
Many thanks.

Be very careful
It is quite likely someone will report you if you move back to your old address - even being able to move back may be held against you!

I used to live near there.

Honeywell doesn't (or at least didn't) have a formal catchment, it was all on distance to school gates, very competitive and absolutely notorious for people purporting to live there at admission times, meaning that genuinely local children didn't get a look in. Compound this with an area with a huge number of families and not enough primary school places, and you've got something which the council really does scrutinise, and will the absolute support of longer term residents.

So what you're thinking of doing may well be spotted and interpreted as fiddling admissions, and Wandsworth council is ruthless.

Is the plumbing work really urgent? Or could you move elsewhere for the duration - somewhere still local and more clearly temporary than back to a former permanent address?

I absolutely want to live there permanently and long term - I actually bought the flat with some inheritance money (and a big mortgage obviously!) but as a first-time buyer (and working single mum clueless about all this), there were a lot of things I did not know to look out for or ask questions about and I now realise the flat has a lot of issues I had not spotted :( that will need to be resolved at some point - and I would rather they are resolved before the start of the school year of course...my former address is still local but out of the catchment unfortunately. It's not so much moving back as going somewhere else temporarily and because the landlord is a friend it's an easy solution, rather than trying to find a new temporary accomodation...
Anyway, thanks for the replies, if someone has other ideas or experice of home visits feel free to add...Maybe I'll wait till the roof falls on our head (only joking, well kind of)...

I think the home visits are after you have been offered a place, and are to do with easing the transition to school. Investigations into validity of applications are separate.

It's awfully bad luck for you with the timings. But as you've bought, not rented, and presumably have done other things to establish yourself (Council Tax, utility bills etc) it should be possible to demonstrate - if indeed you are investigated at all - that you and DC will really be living there.

My older three went to Honeywell and we didn't have home visits then (but they are now 15, 17 and 18). I would think that as Edith says, you hvae bought the place and so long as you can 'prove' the works that are being done, I can't imagine that there would be a problem.

Give the council a call and see what they suggest - if you're on the Electoral Roll and paying Council Tax for the property etc, I'm sure they will accept that.

It's a brilliant school - my three loved it there and I would love to send DD3 there when she starts in Reception in 2013, but I'm now the other side of Trinity Road, so suspect that unless I move on to one of the chimneys I'm out of luck. I shall be trying though! The Head is the same that was there when my oldest started, and there are still a lot of the same teachers there, which I think is great.

FWIW we lived (then) in Wisley, so not immediately close, and my children had friends who lived the other side of Latchmere, Streatham and Tooting Bec - and it was a bloody hard school to get into even then.