woodrot Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > There are about 15 shops I would happlity see > demolished to make way for a Waitrose. Or the site > just left derelict as a warning to those who > beleive that cupcakes, designer babay wear and > cookwank are a new retailing paradigm for SE22. xxxxxxx So you'd like to see the independent shops which make Lordship Lane such a pleasure to walk down replaced by a Waitrose to make it look just the same as many other high streets in London? And you'd like to see all those independent shops put out of business, with all the personal misery that entails, so that a large company can open yet another supermarket? If local people did not want what they are selling, the little shops would not still be here, regardless of what you may think of them :)