Lets see what happens when the documentation and appeal forms from EH arrives and those of us who are minded to can discuss and decide what to do and how to do it, probably in consultation with Council officers.

In response to earlier comments, there is nothing democratic about the listing process. Anyone can propose a building for listing and not for the purest of reasons either. Why should there not be consultation as there is with the statutory planning process?! It is outrageous that such a body can just press ahead with such decisions without considering the public interest in the round.

Clearly the prospect of delisting is ruffling certain quarters. The matter is most certainly not done and dusted and CAN be rescinded on appeal. Having spoken to EH I have to say there does seem something fishy about the speed at which this particular matter was dealt with. Almost rushed -through ,you might say. It will do no harm at the very least for an initial polite letter to the SoS of DCMS to ascertain the processes which were followed and to question why a ruling which seriously hampers public swimming provision in south London was allowed to be granted at the very time the Culture Secretary was in Bejing promoting the benefits of 2012 to ordinary Londoners- a point which attracted the Olympics to London in the first place.

The discussions about the merits and demerits of a combined sports and housing site fail to consider the one area of development that tends to thrive in a depressed housing market- housing associations which these days are using more sophisticated financial modelling to deal with changing market situations. It is/was therefore highly possible that decent values could be obtained for such grant funded development properties hence providing the necessary cross subsidy for any pools development.