This has the potential to ruin Forest Hill if we are not careful.

Endless and pointless surveys that tell you everything and yet nothing are just a delaying tactic. As I see it, the Council are determined to sell off the DR site and have no desire to retain the Victorian frontage. If this happens, Forest Hill will end up with little charm and character, current Victorian heritage will be lost in the stampeed to develop cheap, tacky and densely populated one bed flats. Who, with any money, will want to live in these? People bang on about Lordship Lane's qualities - well, much of this is due to the local housing stock and the type of people that live there. Majority of roads leading off LL consist of converted Victorian flats and houses which are very popular amoung the young middle classes and families. Who's going to want to live in Forest Hill if it becomes a large and unattractive housing estate?

Even if WW is accepted as the option to go forward, the redevelopment of the DR site will no doubt commence almost immediately - Council will probably sell the land off too cheaply and excuse this as the ecomomic climate. Then the WW development will be delayed due to previously unknown costs and lack of funding - it will never get built - and then there'll be some pathetic excuse that the money is no longer available anyway due to some new fangled EU law on recycling or light bulbs that the Council had to legally fund. (Not to mention Councillors and the Mayor's expenses that have to be paid for- do we know what these are incidentially??) - So there you have it.

No pool
No Victorian heritage
Big housing estate that does nothing to improve Forest Hill and just puts off anyone with any dosh investing in the area. Happy days.