article_snippet.sent: The mother - who works in IT for Sheffield City Council and is married to financial planner Simon, 55, - also believed the short distance from The mother - who works in IT for Sheffield City Council and is married to financial planner Simon, 55, - home to Broomhill Infants School would also be a deciding factor.
article_snippet.sent: Charlotte is in the catchment area but Broomhill Infants School is oversubscribed, so children who also live in the catchment area but go to the correct feeder school were given a place above Charlotte.
article_snippet.sent: Seven-year-old Charlotte Briggs said: 'I know that lots of parents are in similar positions but what is different here is that not only are we in catchment, we live about as close to Broomhill Infants School as possible.
article_snippet.sent: Parents park outside our house when dropping Parents children off at Lydgate Juniors. '
article_snippet.sent: Sheffield City Council uses an "as the crow flies" criteria for working out who lives nearer in the event of over subscription within catchment and if I look out of my landing window, all that stands between our and Broomhill Infants School are the Kings Court OAP flats and a couple of houses. '
article_snippet.sent: I've been told Broomhill
article_snippet.sent: Broomhill Infant School is not and has never been a linked feeder school to Lydgate Junior School and a member of the Admissions Team attended Broomhill in October 2014 to offer help and advice to parents before applying. '