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Yes definitely, the car park has flooded previously I think (up to knee height, though).
I always thought it was such a shame about the ship aground and the school being hoarded off and unused - their retention and refurbishment was part a S106 for the flats I think (the old school was supposed to become a museum).
There was a bit of activity around the old pub about 12 months ago with some building work going on, it was meant to become a gurdwara - but they wanted to add height to it leading to planning issues. There's been no work since.
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Oliver Schick
Wow. I can't remember if I objected to the car park at the time (there was a campaign against that development and the resultant loss of the area's historic identity, e.g. losing the Ship Aground), but I always thought it was a pretty stupid idea to have one underground so close to a river that may be being protected from being flooded upriver by Thames surges at the moment, but what if the Thames barrier failed, etc., but I certainly didn't expect a mains burst there of all places. They normally seem to occur on busy high streets. (Not that I didn't know there was a major water pipe there, as it's clearly visible next to the Princess.)