Will declined secondary school places above increased PAN be reallocated or reduced?

[Mummyspider27]

Had my appeal case paperwork.
Said PAN is 240
On reallocation they increased PAN to 247 as agreed with LA and Governors.
My question is, if people decline any of those spaces do you think they will be offered at next reallocation or will they try reduce the number back down to 240?
Also, seems odd if they 8 classes of 30, they would go over PAN by 7 not 8. Why would they only add 1 extra person to 7 of their classes not all 8?

I,m not sure if this applies everywhere but in my LA the school can agree to get up front funding for the additional children and agree to maintain the increase. Alternatively they may choose to allow the numbers to fall back to original PAN and then don't get additional funding.

Schools in my LA routinely over-offer, or at least have done for the last few years, and in all cases the number in the year has to drop down below PAN before they re-offer. It's normally done by agreement in order to make sure that everybody who has applied for a place in that council is offered one (which is why it might be a slightly strange number), but the admissions authorities will know that enough people will drop out through the process in certain areas that most if not all schools will be back to PAN pretty soon.

Your LA's admissions team should be able to confirm this because it depends on whether the agreed increase was a one-off over-allocation or a permanent PAN increase. In many areas, places aren't reoffered until numbers fall back to PAN. Worth asking the LA in writing what happens if any of the 247 decline.