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Post Office Closures
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Post office closures in Cambridgeshire will be
made in autumn 2008 and announcements regarding which post
offices will be affected locally are being made on 8th July
2008. Please click
here to read Cambridgeshire County Council's press release
regarding the closures and
here for a full list of the affected Post Offices.
To download the Post Office Limited Branch
Access Report for a particular location, please click on the
name of the Post Office you are interested in below:
Arrington
Benwick
Cambridge - Regent Street
Cambridge - St Johns
Cambridge - Trumpington Street
Catworth
Christchurch
Earith
Elsworth
Ely - St John's Road
Fen Drayton
Grantchester
Great Gidding
Great Gransden
Great Stukeley
Holme
Impington
Little Downham
March - St Peter's Road
Over
Ramsey St Marys
Soham - Hall Street
Wisbech - Harecroft Road
You
might also find the guidance document entitled
'How to analyse your Branch Access Report' helpful.
If
Post Office Ltd refer to a proposed outreach service in your
Branch Access Report you may find it useful to learn more.
Please click on the links below for details of outreach
services:
Hosted Service
Mobile Service
Partner Service
Responding to Post Office Closures
The Cambridgeshire & Peterborough Post Office
Network Change Group, facilitated by Cambridgeshire ACRE, was
formed in response to the Government's 2007/8 national programme
to close 2,500 urban and rural post offices.
For further information on the Cambridgeshire
and Peterborough Post Office Network Change Group please
click here to download a press release entitled
'Post Office Closure Programme Put Under The Spotlight in
Cambridgeshire and Peterborough' issued by Cambridgeshire
County Council.
The Post Office Network Change Group has
recently published a short-term support strategy for post
offices, which aims to set out the practical actions that it
intends to take to manage the impacts of planned post office
closures. There are different strategies for
Cambridgeshire and
Peterborough. Please click on the respective area you are
interested in to download a copy of the relevant strategy
document.
The strategies are accompanied by a series of
guidance notes setting out sources of support and advice. To
download copies of the guidance notes, please click on the links
below. The topics covered are:
1)
How communities can effectively respond during the public
consultation period
2)
Sources of help and assistance for communities
3)
Sources of help and assistance for small business and shops
For details of the information about the
county supplied to Post Office Ltd by the Cambridgeshire and
Peterborough Post Office Network Change Group please
click here. This document contains information relating to
areas of deprivation, current Post Office locations,
populations, growth sites and transport.
For more information please contact Bob Stone - T: 01353 865030 / E:
bob.stone@cambsacre.org.uk
General Advice:
Our Community Development Workers and our Community
Facilities Advisor are the first point of call for all
enquiries. Their focus is on local, rural issues, especially
community planning, funding and community facilities, but
they can also signpost a variety of other sources of
useful information.
If you think we can help, please contact them at Cambridgeshire ACRE or email enquiries@cambsacre.org.uk.
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