MP Graham Stuart has met with post office bosses in a last-ditch attempt to save Beverley’s Crown Post Office from closure.
The MP for Beverley and Holderness also raised the issue surrounding other Post Offices in Hedong and Pattrington.
Residential developers, Queensway Properties will host an open day to showcase their unique apartments at Garden Village Shopping Centre on Saturday, 4 May 2019.
The event will recreate the Reckitt family’s original opening ceremony of the Garden Village development which took place in the 1900s.
Feedback from the consultation and the petition in relation to the future of Beverley’s Crown Post Office will be carefully reviewed.
The Post Office has also cleared up the issue surrounding WH Smith advertising for jobs saying this normal practice.
CWU General Secretary says that the Tories are to blame for the decline of the British Highstreet.
His comments come following a poll the CWU commissioned after the Post Office announced the closure of 74 branches, including the Crown Post Office in Beverley.
An exhibition looking at the long history of boat building in Beverley opens at the Beverley Guildhall on Wednesday, 20 March.
The exhibition has been called ‘Trawling Through Time’. It will be linked it with the project of the same name currently underway in the East Riding Archives.
Post Office Director Roger Gale has been handed a petition by MP Graham Stuart.
Mr Stuart presented 1700 petition signatures objecting to the proposed closure of Beverley’s Crown Post Office.
Local Councillor David Elvidge says he is deeply disappointed with the Post Office over their plans to relocate to WH Smith.
Cllr David Elvidge also says that he feels people are not being offered a full and proper consultation.
Should cars be allowed to drive along Toll Gavel in Beverley to help boost the high street? It is a question that has to be worth the discussion.
Like towns around the UK, Beverley needs to find ways to adapt to protect the town centre businesses.
Beverley’s Crown Post Office relocation to the nearby WH Smith is not all bad news. In fact under the proposals put forward by the post office, there are far more benefits.
Sadly it seems these benefits have been lost in all the noise being created by a small group of people.
Andy Parrish the Communication Workers Union Branch Secretary for Hull & East Riding says Beverley deserves to have a Crown Post Office.
Mr Parish was one of the campaigners who took to the streets to voice their concerns over the Post Office plans to relocate services to WH Smith store on Toll Gavel.
MP Graham Stuart has praised the community for pulling together over the proposed relocation of the Post Office in Beverley.
Mr Stuart joined Union Members and members from all political persuasions in Beverley as they look to put pressure on the Post Office to rethink their plans.
Cllr Denis Healy has handed over a petition to MP Graham Stuart as he looks to put pressure on the government to overturn a decision by the Post Office to relocate services to the nearby WH Smith store.
Cllr Healy and his team have collected over 2,500 signatures since November from residents. The Cllr says people in the town are outraged by proposals put forward by the Post Office.
Conservative Government Policy when it comes to the future of the 74 Crown Branches, including Beverley is quite clear. They allow the Post Office to deliver this strategy as an independent business.
While much has been made of the six-week consultation, Post Office bosses remain adamant that the relocation to WH Smith will go ahead.
Campaigners will be out in force on Saturday morning in support of the Post Office workers campaign to prevent the franchising of the town’s Crown post office to WH Smith.
Post Office managers are currently ‘consulting.roposals to transfer the town’s postal services to the high street stationer. The post office has been operating from its current site for over 100 years.
Residents are currently being urged to share their views following the launch of the Crown Post Office Public Consultation.
However as reported some weeks back, the Post Office has made it clear they have made their minds up. Bosses have said that the Post Office in Beverley will indeed be closed.
Post Office Bosses have confirmed that the Crown Post Office will be closed and relocated to the nearby WH Smith Store.
In a statement released they state clearly that regardless of the public consultation, a commercial decision has already been made.