A London council has waded into a bitter dispute between local headteachers to urge a popular school to withdraw plans to increase its capacity.
In a statutory consultation, the oversubscribed Kingsdale Foundation School in Dulwich, south London, set out plans to boost its formal capacity by more than 42 per cent from 2024.
The Southwark school has argued it already recruits well above its published admissions number (PAN), and that its plans simply formalise its current approach.
But neighbouring Lambeth has opposed the proposal because of its potential impact on schools, with declining pupil numbers due to reduce rolls in the coming years.
