I have to say that I don't use the shops on the parade that much but that's just because none of the current businesses really cater to what i need or want. That shouldn't put off future business owners though. If a new business set up supplying goods which I need, then of course I'd use it. I don't need dentures. Or funerals. Or framing. Or fireplaces. Or flowers. This for me is the problem. Too many shops that are ok but that you might use once in a blue moon or are too niche to get regular custom (vintage furniture and pine furniture shops come to mind). A thriving parade needs shops that are not just visited on rare occasions, but preferably daily or at the very least weekly.

I regularly get in my car and drive to other parades in the area to buy stuff and there's no reason why those types of shops couldn't be in Honor Oak. One is Kim Libretto Butchers on Wood Vale which is hardly a parade packed with passing traffic. Another is Sopers Fishmongers and the greengrocers in Nunhead and Moxons and SMB Foods on Lordship Lane. If there was a decent off-licence on the parade I would be in there EVERY WEEK buying wine that isn't Blossom Hill, Hardys or whatever other horrible brand Gogis stocks.