SG Smith in DV?

[apbremer]

Does anyone know if SG Smith are vacating their huge showroom~it would make a fabulous restaurant? I know that the old service sheds at the back are coming down but the showroom is quite a new building.

[Loz]

No chance...

http://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/forum/read.php?5,1403483,page=1

[goosey-goosey]

When we popped in there a couple of months ago, they assured us they were staying but, as you say, the service yard at the back was going.

[DulvilleRes]

SG Smith/ Dulwich Estate assured everyone as part of their planning application that they were staying as a car showroom. However, there are significant sections of the application that have turned out as untrue. Dulwich Estate do their planning in secret, so who knows.

There was one rumour that the application for the huge underground car park they got through as part of the site development - the size of two Olympic Swimming Pools across the whole site - was part of a bigger plan to get a major supermarket there. How true or not, I have no idea. No point in asking them - in my experience they never reply.

[legalbeagle]

I think it is the case that they had planned a row of houses with underground parking. Certainly there were lots of protests covered by the press from local schools that the amount of heavy machinery required to dig out basements would be unsafe. Not sure what happened in the end tho.