Moving house very close to admissions

[Nikster1986]

We tried to plan our house move around primary school admissions but our September sale fell through in December and we had to apply from our existing address. In Jan we got another buyer but the application was already in.
With everything that happened the first time around we figured we'd get our school place before we moved.
However, last week, our buyer pushed super hard and we actually complete tomorrow. School placement allocation is the 17th April.
My question is - does anyone know if this will this impact our school place? We don't complete on our new house for a few more weeks, which is fractionally closer to our preferred school but in reality it doesn't really change much with regards to catchment. We are renting off a friend who is on an extended trip and we are practically on top of the school for the time being.
Do we tell the council we've moved or just sit tight? Would they pull our school place at this point? Our buyers seem very 'on-it' - we got a text from BT already, saying they want to take over the line and we haven't even signed the final house documents. If they do that with the council tax - which we're happy to keep paying for a couple of months to secure our school spot - then are we at risk of not getting a spot at all? Or is it too late for that to be the case? This is not a catchment house move. We have lived in the area for years and my son goes to a local pre-school - all his buddies will also go to this school. We are only moving about 5 minutes walk away, as the gardens on the other side of the high street are loads bigger.
I know this is making me sound a bit mad but my eldest has speech and OT needs and the school we want is the only one that offers any dedicated in-school support. The other two local schools are both OFSTED inadequate and seem to be barely able to provide the basics. let alone meeting additional needs. So, we feel that we really have to have our top choice school. Which I am prepared to fight for, if necessary, but if we can / should do anything so the fight never needs to happen then that would be great. There isn't a way of contacting school admissions at BCC aside from some form that I already filled in and never heard back on.
TIA

Just to clarify:

• did you own your own home before?
• when was it sold?
• when did you move to rented?
• what address did you use for applications? (previous owned home, rental accommodation?)

Usually there is a cut off date for moving and using new address. You will be way past that.

It won't make any difference at this stage I suspect but you should change your address to your current one anyway for paperwork reasons then to your permanent address when you complete

Your place will be allocated based on the address you gave which was presumably the child's main address at the time of application.

Once a place is offered it can only be taken away under very limited circumstances, just moving is not one of them, unless the admissions authority have reason to believe the address was fraudulent.

Thanks all. We move into our friends place for the next five weeks, tomorrow. Then we hope to have our onward chain completed but you never know with these things. Sounds like we'll be fine though, which is a relief!

We moved fractionally closer (about 100m down the road) to all 3 schools on preference list about this time two years ago (albeit from rented for bought, which is obviously an increase in permanence).

I ran up admissions and they said they’d change our contact address but that the admissions would be based on old address. They didn’t question in the slightest.

I’d think your situation is similar - you made an application from the correct home at application point and have now moved closer. The difference is that you’ve not got an absolutely definite long term address lined up, unless you’ve exchanged?

In my council, places are only withdrawn if there’s fraudulent behaviour/manipulate behaviour during the process. Legitimately needing to move isn’t fraudulent.