Stuff the UDP (or whatever it's called now - believe they've changed the terminology). What's that given us? The last thing I saw was the rejection of change of use to a restaurant because that caused the loss of a shop - like we don't have enough shop units in Forest Hill, quite a few of them empty.

The centre needs refocussing around the station / London-Dartmouth roads junction, not stringing out all the way along one side of the road, half-way to Sydenham. That way it preserves some vitality and is accessible to as many people as possible.

Let's keep the buildings a lot of people seem to like and lose a useless car park that does nothing for Forest Hill the way it is at present.

As for the building's condition, they're not totally knackered. A developer would look at the whole site and see what they could build on it and what it would cost to convert the existing bits. Some of the more degraded and less worthwhile parts could potentially be demolished. They're certainly not beyond repair though, only "unsound" due to total neglect by Lewisham that has lead to them deteriorating.