Wilmott Dixon were quite long in their presentation on how they are planning on reducing to zero by 2015 the stuff they send to landfill. Seemed laudable to me as building industry does create a lot of landfill. They were also keen to present themselves as a family business (not floated on stock exchange, shares in family hands, the current Chief Executive is fifth generation Wilmott) which was intriguing. A little more shaky on local employment: they do try to source direct labour or subcontractors within a thirty mile radius. It would be great if some of the workers could be Forest Hill people currently jobless and 30 miles casts the net wide for an urban location.

My only concern is that they may not have as much experience of restoring older buildings (like the frontage block). Their website does not showcase obvious examples of this that I could find. Hither Green Primary School was grotesque in design terms and an atrocity inflicted on a Victorian primary school, but I expect that was the architect's doing, not theirs. There was reassurance that the pools architects (Roberts Limbrick) continue to be involved throughout, so let's hope they look after the restoration part of things, which is still fairly unspecified.

Good news about Louise House (for the short term)