To jaradras: I, too, would like to see Hamilton Lodge turned into a sheltered housing scheme for the elderly, but it would need to be a proper scheme with on-site managers and genuine assistance on call. What we are seeing now is managers with several blocks to care for, so nobody is actually on site for long periods of the day, if at all.
Residents are given those emergency call pendants, but what they really need is a permanent presence on site and somebody to knock on the door or call in to check that someone who has missed their regular activity in the home is feeling all right.
The sheltered housing scheme in Crofton Park Road is a shadow of its former self since Lewisham Homes became responsible for running it.