If what has been said is true - that there can be little reason for the council to reject planning permission for change of use - then there seems not to be much that we can do. In it's current state the laundrette is an eyesore, on a prime location in the centre of Forest Hill it looks awful, but there would be nothing wrong with having a really smart laundrette if only someone could take it over and do it up. Laundrettes are very useful; we have a new deli at 49 Dartmouth Road and how many coffee shops can a town centre sustain? Make it into a state of the art laundrette ("My Beautiful Laundrette") I say, and let it stay in the middle of the town so all those people getting off the trains can pick up their clean things on the way home.
Quetta