PROPOSALS for a multi-million pound retail and housing scheme have been unveiled at a public exhibition.

Around 200 residents visited the Laban Centre, Deptford, from Friday to Sunday to see the regeneration plans for Creekside Village.

The derelict 2.55-hectare site is located next to the Laban, between Deptford Creek, Creek Road, and Creekside.

And the plans, by Creekside Ltd and Ampurius Nu Homes, include restaurants, shops and 800 homes.

They also contain a theatre, a jazz venue, an exhibition space, artist workshops and galleries.

Creekside Village would have public spaces and a new river walk with the potential for a pedestrian bridge over the creek.

It aims to rejuvenate Deptford Creekside, establishing a vibrant area, as well as improve connections with Cutty Sark Docklands Light Railway station and Greenwich stations.

The scheme would also provide new dance and music studios for Laban, the Trinity School of Music, and Creative Lewisham, an arts business agency in Deptford.

Developers hope to submit their application later this month to Lewisham and Greenwich councils, whose boundaries bisect the site.

If approved, work is anticipated to start later this year and be completed in 2010.

Pat Conlon, chief executive of Creekside Ltd, said: "Our proposals for the regeneration of the area will complete what Laban started.

"Creekside has fantastic potential and is an opportunity to transform largely derelict land into a vibrant community.

"We want to listen to people and work with them to deliver the scheme."

Creekside Forum chairman Bill Ellson said: "The principle concern is residents located directly across the creek from the wharf.

"They say residents won't be affected by noise but I'll believe it when I see it.

"The wharf works to the tide, unloading at night and in the early hours of the morning.

"I look forward to the full details of the proposals as and when they arrive."