you lot drive me nuts! what did you expect was going to happen once the pub was saved from demolition....that the developer was going to turn the area into some disney version of 'old london towne' complete with hot chestnuts and chirpy chimney sweeps?

Of course its going to be surrounded by new buildings, so of course there will be a clash of old and new - how could it be otherwise?

Like FH Pools, the building is old....but so what? it is not all that attractive or special. The tiled corridor is great, but that can easily be preserved. As a pub it is obsolete, so things have to move on.

Brian, you dont seem to understand that new homes house the population, they dont increase it. I am sure you are all right where you are, but spare a thought for the thousands of inadequately housed people of LB Lewisham who will be desperate for the new social housing that this site will provide.

(and I bet the rest of you will shop in the M&S food hall that - according to the gossip - will be moving into one of the shop units)