Joanne Steps Up Campaign to Save Our Harrow Road Post Office

-       Six week consultation process set to commence on Tuesday 19^th February

-       Post Office closure would affect vulnerable residents the most and have a detrimental impact upon local business

Joanne this week stepped up her campaign to save the Harrow Road Post Office which is in danger of being permanently closed under the Labour Government’s Post Office closure programme. Across the country more than 4,000 sub-Post Offices have closed since 1997, with a further 2,500 due to close by 2009; a six-week consultation process to decide the future of London’s Post Office network is set to commence on 19^th February.

Launching her campaign Cash said: “I believe in a sense of community and local Post Offices play a central role in many people’s lives; it is where they cash their pensions, sort out their bills and obtain advice. The closure of the Harrow Road Post Office would have a devastating impact on our most vulnerable residents and significantly inconvenience our entire community. This Labour Government’s programme of Post Office closures has to stop; it is destroying local communities and has left us with fewer Post Offices, providing fewer services, for fewer people.”

Local trader, Paul Walsh, believes this closure would have a detrimental impact on business in the area:”If the Post Office closes it will represent yet another blow to businesses on the Harrow Road. We are already suffering badly enough at the hands of Labour’s congestion charge extension, the last thing we need is for yet more business to be driven away by the closure of our local Post Office.”

Explaining the importance of the consultation period Cash commented: “In the coming weeks I will be working closely with local residents to generate yet more support for the Harrow Road Post Office and to increase awareness in the local community about the nature of the consultation process. I want to stop the Harrow Road Post Office from closing and the next six weeks represent a chance for us to put forward our views and to demonstrate that this Post Office has the full support of local residents.”