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Will be interesting to see if the election will change this process.
Yes, the Conservative manifesto is expected to support new grammar schools, and a stand-alone boys and girls' grammar at the annexe site in Sevenoaks would make more sense administratively.
Otherwise, with a Labour win or minority government, the TWGSB expansion will probably get through on existing legislation: as the school is KCC maintained and not an academy or free school, the only approval needed is KCC's, as I now understand it, whereas WoK as an academy needed DfE sign-off to expand.
I agree with you about the staffing challenge. The annexe teaching staff won't get London fringe rates, according to the consultation document, because the principal site is outside range, and support staff /management face all sorts of space and operational demarcation issues v WoK staff already occupying parts of the building especially as some facilities need to be "shared".