A couple of points - and please don't think I'm being flippant by these remarks, I'm just tired from work and want to rush off outta here!

I thought that 'business use' would have far less value as the options would either be that the council lease out the existing units for annual rent; rebuild and lease for rent; or sell to an employer to build their own units. Selling to an employer would not be worth as much as selling to a developer - and it'll probably be quite difficult to find a business that wants to own offices. Housing stock is worth more as once built the developer sells it off piecemeal. I don't know much about Live&Work units but would have thought this would require a change in land-usage again.

I'm not sure that creating employment on Willow Way is relevant to our pools requirement (these extra factors have a danger of overcomplicating this)? Also, I agree that the issue seems a long way from being resolved which is the bit that scares me - I want a pool asap! - not in some distant future after planning issues have been resolved!

Is the Willow Way site really considered as a non-town centre site by Lewisham and National policy? When I think of out-of-town/non-town centre I do not think of a site in an already built-up area, 5 mins walk away, served by the same transport infrastructure with similar cachement area properties.

Also, I understood that there were no 'change of planning use' issues for building residential units on the current pools site? So the only objections that could be raised were to the size and scale of the residential project, whereas changing the use of Willow Way to allow for residential allows for a whole new range of objections to be raised that could potentially scupper any residential development there.