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| 51 | Oliver Holder | A tragedy for the valley - particularly for the elderly without transport. Salisbury is a pain to get into and out in a car - let alone on the bus. Please let common sense prevail. |
| 52 | Millie Holder | I am appalled at the proposed closure of Broad Chalke P.O, as a voluntary worker with the elderly in the Chalke Valley, I have listened to their concerns about this proposal. They are all extremely concerned and upset about the major change this will make to their lives. They are all frail, they are not mobile and most are living on their own. To carry on with this ill thought out plan would be both cruel and heartless. May I suggest if you stopped advertising on national T.V the money saved would probably keep Broadchalke P.O going for another five years |
| 53 | vivenne hewland | |
| 54 | Hugh Guillebaud | The closure of Broad Chalke post office would mean real difficulties for the people of the Chalke Valley. To say that Fovant ost office is only five miles away is irrelevant because the village shop there does not provide a large stock of goods, so many people will have to combine a visit to the post office with a visit to Salisbury, ten miles away, where the queues at the post office are already too long, and which is already badly congested with traffic, and does not need any more.
The Chalke Valley is well known as a friendly place with a vibrant community spirit; this will be seriously damaged if the post office closes. While we want the Post Office to be profitable, it cannot expect a all departments to be profitable. All large corporations carry integral divisions that provide services to the company rather than profits. Village post offices come under this description. As a former nationalised business, the post office has a virtual monopoly, which brings with it a responsibility to those people who are either too old or too poor to travel long distances for basic amenities.
Broad Chalke should keep its post office please. |
| 55 | C Donne | |
| 56 | Mark Law Hitchings | This so-called socialist government should be removed by any means necessary. Military, probably... |
| 57 | Paula Appleton | |
| 58 | Caroline Floyd | I travel to Salisbury as little as possible now that my children have left school. A local post office on my regular route is vital - I never travel in the direction of Fovant or Dinton and would have to make a special journey, using extra petrol, solely for the PO rather than combining it with shopping at the butchers where Broadchalke PO is situated, or dropping in on my way to a social or shopping session. The queues at Salisbury Main PO are appalling and it can take 20 minutes to get one letter measured/weighed. The High Street PO also takes for ever as they are very slow at their job. |
| 59 | Marrianne Tomkies | The Post Office is a vital ingredient of rural life. We shall have to make at least a ten mile round trip to a shop if our village shop closes as a result of losing the Post Office. That is not very "GREEN" which we are all trying to be these days. |
| 60 | Anonymous | I am a relative newcomer to the valley, but since I have lived in Broad Chalke Post Offices have closed in Bishopstone, then Ebbesbourne Wake and more recently Bowerchalke. I do not believe that the basic criteria for closure at Broad Chalke have been met. |
| 61 | Alex Sains | |
| 62 | Patricia Steel | What happens to all the people who don't drive?
There will be no Post Office in the Chalke Valley and the community needs one as a focal point. Fovant Hollow is a bad road in winter. Does the government of this country want to get rid of the countryside and its people |
| 63 | Sheila Steel | |
| 64 | Michael Roe | Closure of Broad Chalke Post Office would represent the removal of a vital asset from a rural community. Any government so out of touch with the wishes of the electorate will be removed from power by that electorate. |
| 65 | Diana & Peter Field | A very serious retrograde proposal directly affecting the lives of everyone. Well done the organisers of this petition. They will incur expenses so I suggest the creation of a "fighting fund" to meet them. |
| 66 | Anonymous | It is essential that Broadchalke PO remains open. It serves an important function in the Community and is so necessary for many families and older people in the vicinity. It also is VERY important in keeping the amount of travelling down and so our CARBON FOOTPRINT> |
| 67 | ALUN DAVIES | Post Offices and village shops are a community nescessity and more likely than not as soon as the Post Office closes the shop's own profitaility drops to a level where that also shuts down. When Winterbourne Opera wanted to stage a concert in Broadchalke, we were reliant on places like the Post Office and shop selling tickets for us, as this is the centre of the community. Many older people have no transport |
| 68 | Anonymous | |
| 69 | Diane Wass | |
| 70 | will hobbs | |
| 71 | Eileen Whatley | Quite honestly I do not know what I will do without the place. |
| 72 | Dr Alice Bennett | Every time I visit Broad Chalke Post Office there are elderly people from the community being served. Public transport in the Chalke Valley is very intermittent so this local post office is a vital link for many people. |
| 73 | sharon ibbotson | |
| 74 | john ibbotson | |
| 75 | val fisher | |
| 76 | sophie ibbotson | |
| 77 | max lovell hoare | |
| 78 | timothy Ferreira | |
| 79 | Norina Musselwhite | |
| 80 | Hannah Barbey | |
| 81 | catherine butler | |
| 82 | catherine butler | |
| 83 | Lynn Taylor | |
| 84 | Gill Bonner | |
| 85 | Richard Riddle | |
| 86 | Keith Musselwhite | The closure of this Post Office would cripple the local community especially the elderly and the vunerable. |
| 87 | Robert Hay | The isolation of rural areas by such means as the closure of post offices goes to show that this government appears to run on the basis of the right hand not knowing what the left is doing. As of the 13th of December 07 the government endorsed a policy the "older people" should be voluntarily displaced into rural areas, surely such closures would on serve to isolate people. |
| 88 | James Feltham | I cannot stress how much the Post Office is part of the lifeblood of Broad Chalke and the surrounding villages that rely upon it. It's closure would result in unnecessary car journeys (for those fortunate enough to have their own transport) in a climate when we are encouraged to reduce our carbon footprint. The postal and banking facilities are an essential part of rural living (akin to the GP surgery and dispensary) and relied upon by so many elderly and infirm whose reliance may fall on other agencies (home help, social services etc.) if this local independence is lost. |
| 89 | Mrs Elizabeth Gallop | We must keep the Post Office open. |
| 90 | Mary Webb | With public transport to rural communities deminishing rapidly it just doesn't make sense to take away something which is the life blood and vital to the community of Broadchalke |
| 91 | Brian Sains | |
| 92 | Sue Hayward | Thriving post offices should be encouraged. They are an essential part of rural life. |
| 93 | Roger Ward | Keep rural post offices open ! |
| 94 | Matthew Pickford | when ever I use the post office there is nearly always somebody in the que ahead of me, this shows how much it is used and of great value to the rural people in the chalke valley, we are encouraged to stop using cars and shop locally and our local post office and aminity is now under threat of closure!! this offers the ability for older people, young mothers and people who can't drive to carry on living and working in their own villages. |
| 95 | Martin Marriott | I believe this Post Office is of fundamental importance to the community and should be kept open. |
| 96 | Karen Curnock | It is so important for rural communities to keep their post office if at all possible |
| 97 | Lynda Fulop | |
| 98 | H.K. Berry | This is a vital service for OAP and young families, that live in and around the village.
We do not want Broadchalk to become another "Chocolate-Box" picture with no people in it |
| 99 | Mary Berry | This is a vital service for OAP and young families, that live in and around the village. There has just been advances in schooling here, so why should other vital services such as a post office be terminated?
We do not want Broadchalk to become another "Chocolate-Box" picture with no people in it |
| 100 | Richard Roe | |