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This is from the report for the planning application:


The existing building is currently known and operates as ?The Rockbank Hotel?

and has been providing accommodation for the homeless/refugees for some

years. The hotel has recently lost its contract for providing this accommodation

to the London Borough of Southwark and therefore is no longer viable

Rockbank Hotel was actually a dreadful "hotel" (hostel)in the 1990's where unfortunate families were housed by Southwark council awaiting rehousing. There were families (many refugees who had experience of torture I seem to remember) with young children and babies accommodated in small rooms with no cooking facilities and inadequate heating, who were required to vacate their room all day and only allowed to return each night to sleep. It was completely barbaric. If it is closed now that is the best news. It was a dreadful hole of a place.


DM

I Can remember when this was actually a Hotel!

I lived a few doors away from it and the main clientelle was what was then decribed as commercial travellers. This woul;d have been about 25 years ago. While we were living nearby, it became a halfway house. At this point the burgalary and car crime rates in our road went through the roof!

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