It's not all about the cars and 'popping in' to shops to grab bits and pieces, it's about making the area pleasant to hang out in. To those not too precious about the odd fella hanging about with a beer or two, the outside space at the Sylvan Post is one of the nicest things to come out of Forest Hill over the past few years: wide paving area, outside seating, good beers and food, being actually able to enjoy the summer in FH... There should be more of this, not less. And the mature trees are part of this pleasure.

It's a pity the ground floor of Heron House can't be altered to commercial use, as that would be another nice outside area for people to linger, eat, drink with deep pavements and trees, not scuttle in and out in their cars

I do actually agree that the 'park' area outside the pools could be thinned to accommodate extra parking there as there's plenty of room and no ammenity is being lost nor the social sphere curtailed.