Bristol primary school place offers 'impossible'

Hannah Rowe, of Halsbury Road, Bishopston, has been allocated Badock's Wood Primary School in Southmead, but her father Mark, 40 said the journey would be very difficult for him and his wife Lucy, 39, as they also have Thomas, two, and baby Oscar.

He said: "It is going to be impossible to walk or take the bus the 2.5 miles to Badock's Wood with two younger children as well as Hannah. It will take more than 90 minutes each way, and we're being expected to do it two times a day, five times a week for seven years.

"We're trying to weigh up the positives from this and not finding any. We will not send our four-year-old on a bus. The offer letters are sending children to the four corners of the city. The council is now saying they have offered every child a place. That does not strike me as a lofty ambition – it's a legal requirement, but the spaces are in the wrong places."