Local Lib Dems call on Council to stop post office closure

12.00.00am GMT Tue 11th Mar 2008

Hillingdon Liberal Democrats have launched a petition in an attempt to save the post office at The Pavilions shopping centre in Uxbridge town centre. The busy post office is due to be closed in a few weeks time and replaced with a much smaller facility on the first floor of W H Smith.

The petition calls on Hillingdon Borough Council to put pressure on the Post Office to put a halt to the closure until a proper public consultation has been carried out.

Lib Dem Councillor, Mike Cox, said:

"Closing this post office makes no sense at all. It is always busy; even with twelve counters open there is still often a queue. The new post office in W. H. Smith will be much smaller and will be difficult for elderly and disabled people to access as the lift to the first floor is very small. We have launched this petition to try to make the Post Office and the Council see sense."

Lib Dem campaigner Gay Brown said:

"We have already had a fantastic response to this petition. We spent two hours outside The Pavillions and received some five hundred signatures. Many of the people we spoke to said that they had no idea that the branch was due to close and were very concerned when they found out."

An online version of the petition is available at:

http://ourcampaign.org.uk/saveuxbridgepostoffice

Related Link:

Save Uxbridge Post Office.