Admissions Criteria Haringey (Secondary Schools)

[NLMum1984]

Hi there,
I'm struggling on the admissions criteria for Haringey, would be great to hear some of your experience.
We are moving out of Tufnell Park (own-flat-mortgaged) to Alexandra Park as after lots of consideration we believe Acland Burghley is not for us.
We have rented a flat in Alexandra Park and put our flat in TP in the market.
The issue is we are getting offers that are below the price we paid few years ago and we can't really afford to lose that money now.
We thought about renting our flat however, I was reading Haringey's admission criteria and it mentions if you own a flat somewhere else your application is rejected.
Does that apply even if the flat is rented? Has anyone been through a similar situation?

DH and I are unsure if we will buy another property as things are not really well between us. So, we do have some flexibility to wait a bit longer to sell the flat, but if this would be unacceptable by the council than we would have no choice other than accept a bad offer...

Haringey take a very strong line on addresses of convenience, more so than many other LAs, and have a whole protocol dealing with it -

www.haringey.gov.uk/sites/haringeygovuk/files/haringey_address_of_convenience_protocol.pdf

Essentially, if you still own another property that was the child's previous residence when you apply for a school place, you have to provide strong evidence that it was no longer available to you at the time of application. Given you aren't moving very far, I suspect they will look closely at your situation - they actually say renting the house out for a year over application dates wouldn't count as making it unavailable. Given you would also be renting (rather than buying) in Haringey, you may have a problem.

Thank you! I though that was the case. I am taking sometime to digest it!
I guess we still have some time as we only apply Sep 2023...

I would expect if you have already been out for 2 / 3 yrs - settled for 1yr+ in your new location they won't look as harshly on that. Maybe give the admissions office a call and see what they say. I presume the rules are for those who move the year before into rented - not those who have been out for a while.

I think the rules are for people renting to gain a school place, which you would be.

You’ve plenty of time to sell your current property.

Would your child/ren get into William Ellis or Parliament Hill?

Is the child starting in 2024 or 2023?