ALTRINCHAM and Sale West MP Graham Brady has written to council leader David Acton asking him to take urgent action to end the shortage of secondary school places in the borough.
The MP says that it is the council's decision to scrap free places for catholic children at St Bede's that has led to the crisis.
And he believes that if the council reversed that decision it would have an immediate effect on local families.
He says that more than 60 additional places are needed every year following the decision four years ago.
Mr Brady said: "With the population growing in Altrincham and Sale and all the local schools being over subscribed there is now a real crisis.
"An ever increasing number of distraught parents come to see me unable to find a local school place for their child.
"If you live in Timperley or Hale you do not want to send your child to school in Partington or Stretford."
Mr Brady believes that in the longer term it will be necessary to expand popular schools.
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