Reply to Robin Orton

I realise your question was probably rhetorical but I will have a go anyway!
I think the answer is because if you can't change the use (as the Council assumed) then for the purposes of that report that new employment development would have no value at Willow Way. Clearly this is not the case, as they will know, as it would be worth something even if it were a much smaller amount. But they may not have been able to put a value to what it might be and therefore have assumed nothing. All we do know is that it would be less than housing and live work.

There is a strong case for looking at the employment issue on Willow Way in the round, and in proposing forms of development that would create as least as many jobs on the site as may have existed in its last use or for other small scale employment uses. This can be combined with housing, either in the form of proper live work, or mixed use development. This issue is certainly a long way from being resolved and is not as clear cut as was stated.

A similar question to yours perplexes me....it is almost as hard to change the location of the pools from a town centre site to a non town centre site in planning terms (both Lewisham and National Policy precludes this), and yet the full value of residential development on the Pool site was assumed in the report to support option 3? I wonder why this was?

Question to 'aswaspooluser' - can you say know why you want the pools on Willow Way? Political, locational or timing reasons?