====================================================================================================================================================================================
City Post Offices Facing the Axe
11 post offices are to close and six more could join them. One of the "most impressive" post offices in the North West is to be closed as part of a restructuring plan. The Lyceum Post Office, in Liverpool city centre, is to be shut along with 10 sub-post offices in the city. The Post Office said the Lyceum was not viable and the list could be extended to six other sub-post offices. The sub-post office closures are part of a national reorganisation to "ensure the viability" of those that remain.
'Not viable'
Those closing are: Town Row, Stoneycroft and Lower Breck Road in West Derby; Window Lane, Gateacre; Cressington Road in Garston; Derby Lane and Picton Road in Wavertree; Knotty Ash and Aintree post office in Warbeck Moor.
http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/regions/liverpool/2004/03/287402.html
---------
Legal action against the proposed closure of 29 local Post Office branches is being considered by Birmingham City Council.
A six-week consultation exercise concerning the closures is due to end on Wednesday. The council has suggested it will seek a judicial review if the Post Office presses ahead with its plans. But a spokesman for the Post Office said a legal challenge would be likely to fail.
Government policy
Council leader Albert Bore said: "Cabinet were unanimous in their opposition to the proposals. We agreed that we would take whatever measures we can to get these plans dropped, even if that means taking our case to the High Court." The cabinet's views and objections were also being forwarded to the Trade and Industry Select Committee, which is carrying out an inquiry into the proposals for the branches in the south of Birmingham.
A spokesman for the Post Office said the organisation was implementing government policy. "I can't believe there are any grounds for a judicial review of the processes we have taken. We are implementing government policy, supported by government funding. There is no legal recourse available to the public if the Post Office decides to close a branch."
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/west_midlands/3604691.stm
11 post offices are to close and six more could join them. One of the "most impressive" post offices in the North West is to be closed as part of a restructuring plan. The Lyceum Post Office, in Liverpool city centre, is to be shut along with 10 sub-post offices in the city. The Post Office said the Lyceum was not viable and the list could be extended to six other sub-post offices. The sub-post office closures are part of a national reorganisation to "ensure the viability" of those that remain.
'Not viable'
Those closing are: Town Row, Stoneycroft and Lower Breck Road in West Derby; Window Lane, Gateacre; Cressington Road in Garston; Derby Lane and Picton Road in Wavertree; Knotty Ash and Aintree post office in Warbeck Moor.
http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/regions/liverpool/2004/03/287402.html ---------
Legal action against the proposed closure of 29 local Post Office branches is being considered by Birmingham City Council.
A six-week consultation exercise concerning the closures is due to end on Wednesday. The council has suggested it will seek a judicial review if the Post Office presses ahead with its plans. But a spokesman for the Post Office said a legal challenge would be likely to fail.
Government policy
Council leader Albert Bore said: "Cabinet were unanimous in their opposition to the proposals. We agreed that we would take whatever measures we can to get these plans dropped, even if that means taking our case to the High Court." The cabinet's views and objections were also being forwarded to the Trade and Industry Select Committee, which is carrying out an inquiry into the proposals for the branches in the south of Birmingham.
A spokesman for the Post Office said the organisation was implementing government policy. "I can't believe there are any grounds for a judicial review of the processes we have taken. We are implementing government policy, supported by government funding. There is no legal recourse available to the public if the Post Office decides to close a branch."
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/west_midlands/3604691.stm
Comments
Hide the following 3 comments
birmingham
25.05.2004 19:27
;-)
ben
birmingham
26.05.2004 12:19
"There is no legal recourse available to the public if the Post Office decides to close a branch."
which is why, just before an election, the labour council is making grand statements which will in fact lead nowhere:
"We agreed that we would take whatever measures we can to get these plans dropped, even if that means taking our case to the High Court."
- -
Same old "plough in without thinking"
28.05.2004 09:37
Many sub-postmasters have decided to take the money and run - you don't have a go at them do you? Oh no, they are members of the community and not some corporation you can mouth off about.
You show a picture of Labour candidates and try and make out that they are closing the post office. Get real and grow up. People like you saying one thing when the other is true are the real reason why these self-proclaimed left-wing parties are viewed by the people they claim to represent as nothing more than a collection of the disparate and desparate.
Money could be applied for by the council to keep these post offices open or the "one stop" shops could house post offices. But the Lib Dems refuse to help.
Don't do their dirty work for them by saying something that is not true and dragging all of socialism down the gutter.
Jay