Wandsworth Catchment Distance Measurement

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The admission documents state:

"The straight-line measurement used to prioritise applicants for admission
to schools in Wandsworth commences in all cases at the location of the
property and terminates at the central point of the school site as
determined by Wandsworth Council’s Geographical Information System."

Does anyone know at what point of someone's home this applies to? is it the closest point on the plot, or the front door, or something else?

Most of the computer systems used for such measurement are derived from ordnance survey data. They have what is called a seed point which is on the centre of the house and on the centre point of the school. The distance measured is between these two points and it can be done to a very large amount of accuracy, literally cms.
In effect the seed points are set and will not be moved. You will not be able to convince any appeal panel about moving the seed point in an appeal situation because as soon as you move one, you open up a can of worms that every body else can start to say it should be on the front door, gate or whatever suits.
The only situations where the distance can be queried are firstly have they got the right house and secondly, specifically for Wandsworth if the school has had a lot of building work to extend say, is it actually the central point of the school site. My suspicion is that you would need to prove a sixable shift in the central point before any panel would agree with such an appeal reason, as it also does say "as determined by Wandsworth."
Wandsworth's criteria is quite sensible, many other LAs have less sensible points and talk about the main entrance to the school, the gate the pupil enter by or some other wording that immediately opens up potential can of worms. The one that sticks in my mind was a school which said gate which the pupils enter the school by and there was an officially sanctioned gate at the bottom of the school playing fields, which was obviously for some pupils a much nearer gate than the front gate of the school. That caused a lot of angst when it came up at appeal

The answer:

Measurements commence at the address point listed for the property in the National Land and Property Gazetteer – this point is usually located within the building but does not relate to entrances or the boundary.

I don't know, but the council gave me their measurements for the distance of our house from Honeywell and Bellvillle. Am just crossing all my fingers now. Surely the distance can't fall even further?!!