Surely surely everyone can agree that until we know what the plans for any new build are, we need to keep the existing building and the option for refurbishment?

If the Louise House site and the park are to have luxury homes/an estate built on them, that is a very different proposition to the pools site expanding to become a leisure centre, with a sports hall etc.

Sure, something like the Bridge could be squeezed in the pools site, 2 pools, fitness centre, meeting room, but what about parking? The Bridge is supposedly under utilised, but its carpark is enormous and pretty much full.

I hate cars and ideally FH would be a pedestrian zone, but until that day, I recognise people want to drive to swimming pools and without suitable parking facilities, the resource will be under utilized.

If you start working backwards, and are looking for a non prime, reasonably accessible site for a local pool/leisure centre in SE23, with room for parking, then this is not the place. (Honor oak recreation grd perhaps?).

The only logical reason we should have a pool at this site is a very important historical one, and that is about to be bulldozed away.