Kingston Vale residents have launched a campaign to save their neighbourhoods last remaining pub from greedy developers.

Use it or lose it is the message from Kingston Vale residents association which fears the Robin Hood could go the same way as its former neighbour.

Located a few blocks up the road, the Duke of Cambridge was unexpectedly demolished last month by owner Nicholas King Homes.

And there is growing concern that more and more prime under-developed sites like the Robin Hood are being snapped up by developers and crammed with luxury housing. Kingsley Robinson, chairman of the Kingston Vale residents association said: We are very worried that the Robin Hood is at risk. If this one goes there wont be one for miles. There is no doubt about it, the Robin Hood is precious because its occupying an enormous site that is worth millions.

Neil Milligan, the Royal Park neighbourhood officer, said interest from developers in the site has being increasing in the last six months.

Clearly the owners of the site are considering selling it and we have been giving responses regarding several proposals put on our desk, he said. A spokesman for Whitbread said the Robin Hood had not been put on the open market but offers to buy the site would be considered.

If we were offered the right price then we would consider it, she said.

But prospective buyers might be put off by the recent rejection of two planning applications on the Duke of Cambridge site by Kingston Councils planning and development control committee. The decision over the future of that site now rests in the hands of an independent planning inspector who chaired an appeal hearing at Guildhall last Tuesday. Nicholas King Homes wants to build either 19 flats or several town houses but residents, councillors and officers protest that the proposals are too large for the site.

Kingston Vale residents association had campaigned to save the Duke, including petitions with up to 200 signatures.