CAMPAIGNERS fighting to save Ladywell Leisure Centre have handed 1,700 letters of objection to the council.
The centre in Lewisham High Street is due to be demolished in 2007 to make way for a new secondary school.
But centre users have campaigned vigorously against the plans and set up the Save Ladywell Pool group.
The New School Campaign group also opposes the plans, saying a new school should be built in the north of the borough.
The letters were handed into Lewisham Council offices at Laurence House, Catford, on Monday, by campaign secretary John Hamilton and Max Calo from the Save Ladywell Pool group.
Mr Hamilton said: "We are hoping the council will see just how many people are opposed to this plan.
"The new school is too small and will see a decent pool destroyed."
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