Guidance

Academy conversion: land transfer advice

Advice on what schools converting to academy status need to do to make sure they can keep using their school's land after converting.

• From: Department for Education
• Published: 30 April 2013
• Last updated: 9 June 2025
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  1. 9 June 2025

     Removed 'Academy land guidance: determining school categories annex' as it was out of date.

  2. 30 April 2013

     First published.

Documents

Land transfer advice

Ref: DFE-00237-2013

PDF, 541 KB, 23 pages

Details

These documents explain what different types of school should do to be able to carry on using their school’s land after they’ve converted to an academy.

Read more guidance on the process for converting to academy status.