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| 1 | Madeleine Biddlecombe | Our Post Office is an essential aspect of rural life and a life line for many in the village and surrounding villages. It is a thriving community that will be hugely adversely affected by any curtailment of services. |
| 2 | Katie Saberton | |
| 3 | Martin Saberton | |
| 4 | vicky eaton-orr | This post offfice is a life line to many of our residents and the hub of our community, we her.have already lost a shop a pub do not destroy our commuinity furt |
| 5 | wendy nelmes | We absolutely need our post office. Not everone has access to transport and it really angers me that the bureaucrats think that everyone has access to the internet. Please consider the elderly when making life changing decisions on their behalf |
| 6 | Mark Hatt-Cook | |
| 7 | Susan Macarthur | A total lack of joined up thinking - something we seem to be inundated with these days.... |
| 8 | Margaret Pearson | I believe the closure of the Post Office will have a devastating effect an all in the local community, especially the elderly and thised without transport. If the Government is trying to keep cars off the road, this is not going tgo help as more of us will have to get in our cars to travel to Wilton! |
| 9 | Clare Golden | |
| 10 | Austen & Julie McRoberts | The impact of this planned closure would be extremely serious for the wider community as well as for Broad Chalke. With the steady erosion of Post Office facilities in the Chalke Valley the implications for many villagers, especially the elderly and infirm, would be grim indeed. The Broad Chalke Post Office is much more than a postal services facility, important though that is. Should the present Post Office close, and with it its friendly and informative local service, community life will be significantly impoverished and greatly diminished for many villagers along the valley. It surely should not be beyond the wit and imagination of the Post Office authorities to devise a strategy for maintaining this essential community service in situ! |
| 11 | Philip Heald | We NEED this Post office |
| 12 | Catherine Heald | We NEED this Post office |
| 13 | Elsa Heald | We NEED this Post office |
| 14 | Libby Webber | PLEASE sign this petition as I was devastated when bowerchalke post office closed and don't want this one to close it is essential for our community and for people who cannot get about as well as others it is absolutely disgusting so please show your support |
| 15 | Anonymous | Without doubt this is as a result of an EU directive that does not take into account damage caused to the local population as as Brussels implementing the grand plan know to all M.P's in the UK. - double standards |
| 16 | Tony Biddlecombe | In 2005/2006 the Royal Mail, which includes the Post Office made bonus payments to its staff of nearly £100m and a profit from day to day operations of £609m. The Operating Profit was £355 due to the need to fund their pension deficit. If anyone tells you the Post Office is making a loss tell them that they are wrong.
It is simply a question of how the accountants at Royal mail choose to allocate the money generated by our Post Offices. |
| 17 | Lalla Hitchings | Please DON'T close our post office. Our rural communities depend on such businesses for their very survival. Why increase our carbon footprint by closing such vital services in the countryside, forcing us to drive to Wilton for postal services? |
| 18 | George Ashe | |
| 19 | Brian Mascall | In a rural area the post office is essential for communication and as an important centre of community life. The increasing distances between post offices mean that more people will be driving greater distances to reach their nearest post office. This defies the trend in favour of reducing unnecessary travel. |
| 20 | Bridgette Lampert | |
| 21 | Charlotte Steel | Losing the post office will be completely detrimental to this rural community. Many of the surrounding villages have already lost their post offices and now use Broadchalke. The Post Office is a busy and necessary focal point of the village and is used by many people and small businesses. We need to keep it open. |
| 22 | James Hitchings | |
| 23 | Ceri Seviour | |
| 24 | leslie finch | |
| 25 | Jon Curle | unreasonable and unjust profiteering on the part of Royal Mail with no thought for the people and society who are in effect its owners and lifeblood! |
| 26 | helen holdsworth | |
| 27 | ANDREA CHALK | The post office is an essential part of village life, providing a first class service to many, many people, including many who are unable to travel further afield. It is the core of our comunity and taking this away or cutting the services would devastate our village.
KEEP BROAD CHALKE POST OFFICE OPEN !!!! |
| 28 | Keith Graham Robinson | If the post office goes so too will the shop as they feed off each other. This will kill the heart of the village. |
| 29 | Roger Weaver | If anyone out there has any interest at all in the future of this or any rural community this will be stopped. but DO THEY? It must be seen as it is the final nail in the coffin of the village shop the ONLY facility for miles around not just a matter of post office facilities- large numbers of elderly people here have nothing else. |
| 30 | Anonymous | Frankly I am apalled at the apparent disregard for the welfare of this self-contained and rural community and the attack on its essential services. My greatest concern is for the elderly of the area - a growing subsection of our population and the destiny of us all - for whom it is already a major undertaking to reach this post office and shop, closure of the post office will likely seriously undermine the viability of the local rural shop too many of which have already been lost. As a regular user of the shop and post office service, I am unhappy for this proposed closure, not least as we already have suffered the loss of service due to recent changes in the postal delivery system anyway for 'cost-cutting'. |
| 31 | Kate Henderson | |
| 32 | william hillary | |
| 33 | Michael Evans | This is yet another case of centralisation of public services that leads to mediocrity and yet more vehicles on the roads that are not designed for such use. Doing away with the post office may save the Royal Mail a few pounds but the overall cost to the public will increase. More cars on the roads leads to more accidents which in turn leads to a greater demand on police and NHS.
Let common sense prevail for once.
Leave the post office as it is and where it is. |
| 34 | Anonymous | |
| 35 | Puffin Moore | The post office is important for banking donations to the RBL Poppy Appeal for the villages in the area. I run the Appeal for the Chalke Valley which consists of 7 Villages. All fnds get bank at Broadchalke post office apart from Coombe Bissett which is also closing! |
| 36 | Susie Hatt-Cook | For all of us who live in the Chalke Valley it is unthinkable that Royal Mail should even CONSIDER Broad Chalke Post Office as a candidate for closure... There is not much I can add, as far as singing its praises goes, to what has been so well written above: Sue gives a first-class and comprehensive service, and is ever professional, helpful, knowledgable, warm and humerous - and takes a huge pride in her work and what she has created for the benefit of not just the village but villages up and down the valley. To quote Rob, our 3rd generation butcher, the closure of the Post Office would mean "the slow death" of the shop, which is not just a great shop but the social heart of the village and beyond in opening hours. Customers come from as far afield as Coomb Bissett for Rob's superb meat. How can elderly people, many of whom don't drive, get over the Down to Fovant - let alone Dinton??? It is a crazy - and cruel - proposal, and MUST be reversed. |
| 37 | Tom Herbert | I think it is a fantastic service to the village and something that should be preserved. |
| 38 | Raymond Gallop | The Broadchalke Post Office and Sue Fry perform an important and unique role in the village and surrounding area. To lose the PO would remove the heart from the village and it is only second to the Church. |
| 39 | Peter Smalley | This busy post office serves the whole Ebble Valley and is essential to the community and is integral with the village shop. If the PO were to close or reduce significantly then it is likely that the shop would also close serious;y affecting village life. The alternatives all result in more car use as public transport is minimal in the area. |
| 40 | Stephen Whitmore | |
| 41 | Sandra Morris | |
| 42 | Anonymous | |
| 43 | Catherine Hatt-Cook | |
| 44 | Barbara Roseveare | |
| 45 | jayne thorne | |
| 46 | Mrs Susan Ratazzi | |
| 47 | Eileen Catterall | Our Post Office is a vital part of village life in the Chalke Valley. If it closes we shall all have to use our cars much more. There is no bus service to either Fovant or Wilton As an older person I use it for all banking as well as for all the other facilities it offers. Without it we could even endanger our village shop which serves all the Chalke Valley. We are all trying to decrease our carbon footprint. Closing this local post office will immediately increase it for a great number of people.
Community life is a rare commodity these days - rural post offices are vital for rural communities.
Broad Chalke Post office represents all that is good in this respect. |
| 48 | Cecilia and Andy Miles | It is essential that Broad Chalke keeps it's Post Office as for many it is the only means by which the eldery, mums with young children and the less abled, are able to deal with pensions, cash, road tax, passport applications, and all the other wonderful things the PO can provide. It is not a village that is just 2 minutes away from town and the bus service is limited. Please understand that rural communities depend on this vital service and Broad chalke has alot of elderly residents. |
| 49 | Andrew Thomas Jeans | |
| 50 | David Gooden | Broadchalke PO is situated in the centre of the Chalke Valley. To go to the PO at Fovant drivers have to use the very steep hill between the two valleys which in Winter can be difficult to negotiate for elderly folk. To get there by public transport is a non-starter as one has to go to Salisbury and then out again on intermittent bus service- total distance approx 20 miles- and then repeat the procedure over again! |