We are suffering from the same problem with Surrey but don’t hold your breath for the letter. When ours arrived saying our daughter had not got into our chosen school,it was correctly addressed to our house in Surrey including the right postcode, but we were informed in the letter from Surrey that we were ‘Out-County residents’ and therefore needed to apply to out Local Authority to get a school place allocated for our daughter (our local authority being… oh yes Surrey !) To add to this we were told we had a right to appeal but that appeals were highly unlikely to be upheld in the 4-7 age group where the school already has 30 pupils in a class due to govmt guidelines – not unreasonable one would think except our daughter is 7 and applying for a 7-11 age group ! So I guess if they think her sge is 4 (even though they correctly quoted her date of birth in the letter) and that she lives in a different county it is no wonder they haven’t offered her a place at the local Surrey school for 7-11 year olds. Still one benefit of this ridiculus process is that as we are clearly not Surrey residents in their eyes we obviously won’t have to pay them any more community charge ! I feel we are about to experience the nightmare of the appeals process.