What I think would work on Dartmouth Road is a health food shop, not dissimilar from 'Well Being' in Sydenham, SBS Foods in East Dulwich or Provinder (for those who remember Forest Hill before 2007). Provinder stocked bread and some organic veg and survived in Forest Hill for over 30 years.

Although I would love to have a fishmonger on the high street, I can't see much chance of it happening (but then I wouldn't have predicted a cheese shop opening on Dartmouth Road). I have been giving some thought to how a fish shop would survive, and I could imagine a shop like the 'Sea Cow' in East Dulwich working in FH, serving wet fish and good quality fish and chips to eat in or take away.

The one other shop that so many people claimed we needed on the high street is a launderette. Since the London Road launderette has been closed I haven't heard anybody say we need a new launderette, but may be I have missed something. Is this something that we need as a new shop? (and the farmers market will hardly compete with)