Well since you ask, let me answer you point by point:

Point 1: "Lousie House is an eyesore "

- Louise House is unremarkable. I read through the English Heritage paper and I found it to be a list of features rather than an appraisal of merits, evidently even EH considers that there's nothing exciting about it, only that it ticks the right boxes for listing.

Point 2: "Its listing is misguided"

- The listing is completely misguided indeed for the reason stated above.

Point 3: "The people who signed the petition didn't know what they were doing"

- I'm sure that many that signed the petition don't know the full implications of what they agree to. Some even think that they are fighting to keep a pool when in fact the result is that they're keeping a pool closed.

On this point let me quote what Jenny Jones AM wrote on the online petition:

"Just as we are winning Olympic gold medals for swimming seems an odd time to be knocking down a public swimming pool. We should be guaranteeing more medals in 2012 by encouraging our young to swim. Plus, environmentally it's almost always better to mend or adapt a building than scrap it and start again. Let's hope that the Council Leader sees social and environmental sense."
She surely didn't understand it and she is an elected member of the London Assembly.

Point 4: "The people who want to preserve the buildings are blinkered and are only thinking of themselves"

- No, I wouldn't say that, I am all in favour of conservation of good architecture and historic buildings of special interest but there are situations, like this one, when demolition may have greater merits than conservation.

Point 5: "Lewisham Labour Party should not be blamed for this 'travesty'"

- No, not for this specific one.

Point 6: "Forest Hill 'needs' people very much"

- Increase in housing density may be unwelcome to many but the two options of the Council for housing on the site are not high density, option 2 wants only 30 flats. Peanuts in today's standards.

Point 7: "Forest Hill isn't that pretty"

- Forest Hill is very pretty in parts. Beauty is in the eyes of the beholder.

Point 8: "Dartmouth Road is the least attractive road in Forest Hill"

- Not at all, in fact it has some Victorian charm. Only that it also used to have a swimming pool and there was a way to have one again, you may prefer to have some charming delapidated buildings to a modern swimming pool, I think that a pool is a big asset for sport and public health and that on balance it would have been better of not having listed Louise House and try instead to get the best out of the Council's proposal by working on the design for the modern building.

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Grasshopper, why do you think that I write anonymous letters of rants when I am perfectly capable to write fully referenced articulated letters that I have no problem to sign?