Of course 17 minutes isn't long but it will preclude anyone living that far i.e Bellenden Road area (so close and yet so far!!) to accessing it if 'closest to school', will be the main admissions criteria. I am sorry but I think you are either missing my point or have not been witness to the school issues locally over the last two decades; hence yet another new school. As for DKH kids, the crow did fly very close to Charter but they were denied access and it wasn't the appeals board or Southwark that stepped in to correct this problem. I wonder as the crow flies which school would be closer Charter or the new school ( I shall check.)as the DKH kids certainly missed out on the admissions policy for Charter. I suggest you look at class and race in schools in Peckham se15, that can easily service the middle classes but who shy away from them on the basis that they have a predominantly different ethnic mix and class make up to their own, lets not pretend!