From my recollection, and before Louise House was listed, the Council were prepared to use the 300 or so (?) responses to the July 2008 consultation as a reason for making a decision on the previous set of HLM options, or they would have been if the votes had not been split almost exactly one third for each option and then if Louise House hadn't been listed. They didn't seem to have a problem that the majority view probably hadn't bothered to vote because if you didn't agree with any of them your only option, was to join the Save the Face of Forest Hill Campaign or go away.

It is useful and helpful to see what people are voting in this poll as one of the indicators of local views that is possible in a very short time period. But even an organised consultation by the Council is not very representative when only a couple of hundred people submit their views to a very limited set of questions.

We need to be pushing for proper consultation (engagement/discussion?) at the right time and NOT a repeat of last summers approach.