Following yesterdays announcement by Post Office Ltd, to close Gobions Avenue Post Office in Collier Row, Havering Park, Ward Councillor, Andrew Mann has hit out at the decision.
He said “Despite massive objections from local residents the Government and Post Office Ltd have totally ignored local feeling and residents objections have been ignored, this post office serves hundreds of local residents from across Chase Cross, Havering-Atte-Bower and Collier Row, its closure will now have an adverse affect on those that use its services, in particular the elderly and those less able to get around”
He went on “We have done a lot of work recently to improve the Gobions Avenue area, with pavement and lighting upgrades, without our post office bringing in residents, it will put the whole shopping parade in jeopardy of becoming like a ghost town”,
He went on “I feel terribly sorry for Sunny Patel, who has run this post office for 20 years, he does not deserve this and has been an asset to the community in all that time”The Residents Association collected hundreds of signatures on a petition, which along with Romford M.P. Andrew Rosindell, were delivered to the Prime Minister at Number 10 Downing Street, hoping that by working together, it would add greater weight to the objections.
The Residents Association would like to thank everyone that wrote in or objected in anyway, although on this occasion it has not helped, the show of public support towards Sunny Patel and the local feeling has been huge.
Cllr Mann also singled out the Prime Minister for attack, he said “Gordon Brown delayed announcing this from last week so that it did not affect local people voting in the London Elections, he could not have had a worse time as it was, yet he hid behind the consultation so as not to give him any more bad news”.
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