Proposed Relevant Areas for Admission Arrangements 2028/29 and 2029/30

The School Standards & Framework Act 1998 requires local authorities to establish a Relevant Area/s in which admission authorities must consult regarding their admission arrangements. Local authorities must consult on Relevant Area proposals every two years as prescribed in The Education (Relevant Areas for Consultation on Admission Arrangements) Regulations 1999.

Proposed Relevant Areas

Cornwall Council is proposing the following Relevant Areas for 2028/29 and 2029/30 admission arrangements. Consultees:

• Devon and Plymouth local authorities
• All admission authorities for schools in Cornwall
• All schools within the proposed relevant areas
• The Diocesan authorities

Deadline for responses: 28 February 2026

Proposed Relevant Areas 2028/29 and 2029/30

Community and voluntary-controlled infant, junior, primary and secondary schools

Cornwall Council, as admission authority, will consult within the following relevant area:

• The administrative area of Cornwall Council; and
• other Local Authority areas covered within 3 miles of the Cornwall border.

Consultees will include:

• all community and voluntary-controlled infant, junior, primary and secondary schools within the relevant area
• all other admission authorities within the relevant area
• Diocesan authorities
• parents of children between the ages of two and eighteen
• other persons in the relevant area who in the opinion of the admission authority have an interest in the proposed admissions

Academy, foundation, trust and voluntary-aided infant, junior and primary schools

The admission authority (governing board or academy trust) will be required to consult within the following relevant area:

• A 5 mile radius of the school, or where this covers a neighbouring authority area, to include up to 3 miles into that area.

Consultees will include:

• Cornwall Council
• all other admission authorities of infant, junior or primary schools within the relevant area
• any other local authority which is the admission authority for a school within the relevant area
• the two nearest primary schools where these are not covered in the 5 mile radius
• the Diocesan authority (schools with a religious designation only)
• parents of children between the ages of two and eighteen
• other persons in the relevant area who in the opinion of the admission authority have an interest in the proposed admissions

Academy, foundation and trust secondary schools

The admission authority (governing body or academy trust) will be required to consult within the following relevant area:

• A 10 mile radius of the school, or where this covers a neighbouring authority area, to include up to 3 miles into that area.

Consultees will include:

• Cornwall Council
• all other admission authorities of primary and secondary schools within the relevant area
• any primary schools that are not covered within the relevant area but which form part of the designated area used in the secondary school’s oversubscription criteria
• any other local authority which is the admission authority for a school within the relevant area
• the two nearest primary and secondary schools where these are not covered in the 10 mile radius
• parents of children between the ages of two and eighteen
• other persons in the relevant area who in the opinion of the admission authority have an interest in the proposed admissions