Help!!! Local authoritie school admissions dispute

[reenzbeaanzheinz]

Hi hope some of the mums or dads can help me as I am really stuck and unhappy. We have moved recently with my father in law as he has a 4 bed house. My mother in law passed away. He is very depressed there fore we decided to move with our to daughters. When applying for a in year application as she’s in yr2, the LA says that this is not a permanent address as we own a property in another borough 6 miles away. I’m struggling to do the school run in the mornings as the eldest suffers from motion sickness. This is a permanent move and we will let our house out but are looking for tenants at the moment. The LA are refusing to allocate a school with our new address because we have legal ownership of a property. Please help any advice will be appreciated

Do you have a mortgage OP? If so you'll need to switch it to a BTL to rent it out and when granted can send proof to the local authority. Also have you been added to the council tax at your FIL and had everything changed across?

It's different from council to council but this is from the guide we were directed to when we started looking at schools.

That's ridiculous.

I can easily see how this could happen. For example we live in a 3 bed house but my parents own a rather large 5 bedroom house with granny flat a few miles away. Should god forbid, anything happen whereby we needed to be with them to look after them then it owuld make far more sense to move into their house rather than try and squueze them into ours.

I don't know what the answer is but have you informed the council of your new address and changed doctors etc?

Are you advertising the property to let?
Have you registered as a landlord with the council in your old borough?
Have you changed your address on all official documentation ie bank, drivers licence, NHS etc

You will always have this issue whilst you have a house that you "own" and have not got rented out on a long term (12 months+) lease. Some LAs are more amenable than others to seeing sense, obviously your LA is not one of them.
I would get all the information you can get together to show you are trying to rent out the house, go back to the LA admission office and ask again for a school place. If they again refuse then you should make an official complaint to the Director of Education in the LA, that they are not being reasonable. You do also have to recognise that the LA may well be coming back saying there are no places in the school you want

Hi thank you so much for your advice. We have given the la all the necessary documents that they asked for. The house is advertised at the moment for let with a estate agent but until we get a tenant we can’t do anything. The council have emailed back saying without a tenancy agreement they won’t do anything
And even if I provide one it may not be enough. Feel like coz we own a property it’s a crime. It’s just stupid that they can’t go case to case basis as not everyone is fraudulent, there are some honest people in the world. I have also mentioned to them that my younger daughter who is at nursery was born with hip dysplasia so finds it difficult if she has a long walk or stand for a long time as sometimes I need to get the bus when I don’t have car. I feel like moving back, I have a written a complaint so let’s c where that get me.