The sales particulars say that the facade will have to be retained in any redevelopment. Presumably someone has spoken to the clowns in Laurence House about redevelopment and that is the party line from the planners.

I can't see retaining the facade alone is ideal. After all Hamilton House is a pretty ordinary Edwardian building which has suffered death by extension. If it is going to be turned over to residential, which seems inevitable, why not have a properly designed block of flats that actually has a bit of architectural merit?

I wouldn't get too excited about trying to say Honor Oak Road can't take any more traffic. We are all going to be living with gridlock as London's population continues to grow and the Planning Department is only interested in meeting its annual housing quota. What HOR really needs is a 20 mph speed limit and some policing.