Hi all

I've just recently found the SE23 site and registered today. This thread interests me a lot because i live very close to the old FH Pools.

It will indeed be a great shame to lose the Victorian facade of the pool building but what i don't understand is the necessity to also flatten Louise House next door. Is that also structurally unsound? It looks pretty solid to me. If they want to maintain some consistency with the library building surely the existing Louise House matches perfectly.

As a side issue, people have been using the space in front of the pool building for parking. When i parked a friend's car there a couple of mornings ago the security guy came out and said i would have to move it sometime in the day because the council were coming to chain up the car park (naturally that never happened). He explained that the place was going to be knocked down. I said that i thought that the demolition wouldn't begin for months. I assume that there must be some kind of safety or insurance issue but no doubt this valuable bit of space will be chained off soon and rendered useless for many months.

The plan for an area of grass and trees extending the full length of the frontage from the library to the small park sounds good. I just hope it isn't to thinly mask the 'carbuncle' that springs up behind.