Roz,
You are entirely correct that the choice we are likely to be offered is butter today or potentially jam tomorrow. What the council is refusing to take seriously is the very real potential solution that is jam today.

Building a leisure centre, used by schools on the edge of an industrial estate makes no sense. People from FH and Honor Oak are more likely to drive to Willow Way rather than walk the extra 7 minutes. People from Sydenham and Perry Vale will not go via FH town centre and will not use the shops and library on the edge of the town centre. Are there ever any police at the police station? What is the advantage of knowing where this is?

Once we have a new pool in Sydneham, do not expect any money from the council or elsewhere for the regeneration of Forest Hill. The idea of the arts centre in Louise House will be killed off by selling the surrounding site for high density housing. The outcome will certainly be the contraction of Forest Hill town centre into a small group of shops between Sainsburys and Derby Hill, with no noticable increase in shops in Kirkdale, other than the Tesco that has been given planning permission already.

The petition does not support either option 2 or option 3. It calls for consideration of the possibilities for creating option 2 in a reasonable timescale. If there was the will, there is a way, instead there is willow way.