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nagapie said:
There is no CC catchment, it's if you go to their church every Sunday.
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It's go to 'a' catholic church every Sunday and live in their catchment. They didn't want to exclude people who bring their kids to foreign language mass so going to their church is not mandatory. Their catchment is based on two-thirds of kids living in the parish boundary of CC and one-third from the Herne Hill catholic church. If you live outside that and go to CC every Sunday you won't get in, even with a letter of recommendation from the pope.
 
Smick said:
It's go to 'a' catholic church every Sunday and live in their catchment. They didn't want to exclude people who bring their kids to foreign language mass so going to their church is not mandatory. Their catchment is based on two-thirds of kids living in the parish boundary of CC and one-third from the Herne Hill catholic church. If you live outside that and go to CC every Sunday you won't get in, even with a letter of recommendation from the pope.
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That's only because they have enough middle class, well-off parents who go to their church every Sunday to fill from their catchment area, which of course includes HH. But you can live next door and not be Catholic and a letter from no one will get you in.

Personally I don't live in catchment and I wouldn't send my child to a Catholic school but I know a lot of parents who live on that road who seethe at the thought that their children are not allowed in.
 
We were prepared to bite the bullet, rediscover our Catholicism every week and put in an application for CC but although there are kids on our road who go, the catchment changed and my kid is now persona non grata, as they say in the Vatican.
 
Smick said:
We were prepared to bite the bullet, rediscover our Catholicism every week and put in an application for CC but although there are kids on our road who go, the catchment changed and my kid is now persona non grata, as they say in the Vatican.
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Lots of kids on my road go to CC. Not sure how religious their parents were before school going time but they are certainly there every Sunday now as I believe not going regularly puts a black mark next to your name; although the Head has changed this year I've heard. The catchment of course is different to everywhere else. We are actually in this year's CC catchment as my friend up the road sent her daughter but we are definitely not in Sudbourne's catchment, showing how much bigger CC's is because it's exclusive.

So where is your child? PM me if you don't want to say online. I am interested as I'm looking at primaries now and am glad to say that actually visiting a lot of them has made me feel much better - they are on the whole mostly fine, even the not sought after ones.
 
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shakespearegirl said:
http://m.haart.co.uk/HRT011107771
Obviously property isn't booming as much as some people think. This house was on about a month ago with an open day and guide price of 740-780.
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Hint: This thread is about Foxtons. Also, out of touch as I am with the current boom, I'm wondering if the slightly off-the-beaten track location and small rooms are holding it back. These are artisan cottages (albeit now a conservation area). I do remember the rooms as small - I went to a party in of those houses (years ago though).
 
nagapie said:
Lots of kids on my road go to CC. Not sure how religious their parents were before school going time but they are certainly there every Sunday now as I believe not going regularly puts a black mark next to your name; although the Head has changed this year I've heard. The catchment of course is different to everywhere else. We are actually in this year's CC catchment as my friend up the road sent her daughter but we are definitely not in Sudbourne's catchment, showing how much bigger CC's is because it's exclusive.

So where is your child? PM me if you don't want to say online. I am interested as I'm looking at primaries now and am glad to say that actually visiting a lot of them has made me feel much better - they are on the whole mostly fine, even the not sought after ones.
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Streatham Wells.

It's a lovely school and certainly different to what I grew up with.

We were worried she'd get Fenstanton, what with the stabbing and other problems but I am sure there are teachers busting a gut and loving parents who want the best for their kids there too.

So much education happens in the home anyway.
 
leanderman said:
But, most of the time, the SOLD signs are going up pretty rapidly.

It's inexplicable.

Presumably people are taking out enormously long and perhaps interest-only mortgages.
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3 bed house on Brixton Water Lane went for 1,403,000. That's the official land registry price (not agent marketing price which was 1,250,000). Swiss bloke and paid cash, so I'm told.
 
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CH1 said:
Hint: This thread is about Foxtons. Also, out of touch as I am with the current boom, I'm wondering if the slightly off-the-beaten track location and small rooms are holding it back. These are artisan cottages (albeit now a conservation area). I do remember the rooms as small - I went to a party in of those houses (years ago though).
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The thread has veered away from Foxtons quite a bit

My point was they'd overpriced it. One on the opposite side of the street went for 200k less a few weeks beforehand. It was only 2 beds and not as high end a finish, but bigger garden
 
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shakespearegirl said:
The thread has veered away from Foxtons quite a bit
My point was they'd overpriced it. One on the opposite side of the street went for 200k less a few weeks beforehand. It was only 2 beds and not as high end a finish, but bigger garden
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I had intended smart Alec repartee to the effect that Foxtons would have got more. Not that you digressed!
 
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