Michael, you said only yesterday, 'My other concern is that, although the current management have improved the behaviour of residents, this is not guaranteed in the future'. So it really doesn't matter what assurances the developer is giving us at the moment because it's all just sweet talk to get the local community on board to get this application passed.

Of course it's a good thing that the wider community of the borough of Lewisham can be part of helping to integrate vulnerable and many quite difficult people (to be polite) into local jobs and homes etc - but not 200 of them dumped on our small town and concentrating all of the associated problems that brings onto us alone. We'd all need to be pre-trained as social workers and Community Police Officers before this could go ahead - YEAH RIGHT!!!

I've been in Forest Hill since 1971 and I have been involved with the good, the bad and the very, very ugly throughout so you can mark my words - the prospect, let alone the reality, of this thing happening is bad for the town centre.

This post was last modified: 22-11-2013 10:01 AM by Anotherjohn.