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Post Office Ltd has unveiled the list of Post Offices under threat in Northumberland, Tyne & Wear and northern County Durham. Final decisions on which facilities will close will be taken on September 2, with the closures taking place a month later.
Across the country, 4,000 Post Offices – a quarter of the network – have closed. A further 2,500 are expected to close by 2009. Conservatives have pledged to oppose the next wave of closures and have, instead, published an action plan to save the country’s Post Offices.
The Conservative action plan to save the Post Offices will:
- Give sub-post masters more freedom to offer a wider range of businesses
- Push for more Post Offices to be ‘One Stop Shops’ with staff able to advise on a range of matters including tax returns, pension entitlements and local authority services
- Encourage local councils to open ‘Council Counters’ in local branches
- Allow the Post Office to work with carriers other than the Royal Mail
- Prevent the Royal Mail taking business away from sub-Post Offices by under cutting the prices they can charge for postage.
Post office branches earmarked for closure:
Newcastle:
Clayton Road, Jesmond
Howard Street, East Quayside
Kenton Road, Newcastle
University of Newcastle Students’ Union
Walkerville
Brunswick Village
Garden Village, Gosforth
Walbottle
West Denton
Gateshead:
Allerdene
Sheriff Hill
Blackhall Mill
Crookhill
Winlaton Mill
Sunderland Road
North Tyneside:
Bates Cottages, Holywell
Monkseaton,
Wilton Drive, Whitley Bay
South Tyneside:
Station Road, East Boldon
Victoria Road West, Hebburn
Harton Village, South Shields
Westoe Road, South Shields
Durham:
Grange Villa, Chester Le Street
South Pelaw, Chester-le-Street
Brancepeth, Durham
Gilesgate, Durham
Tantobie
Castleside (Temporarily Closed)
Esh
Helmington Row
Low Willington
Medomsley
Stanley
Sunnybrow
Hetton Road, Houghton-le-Spring
Easington Colliery, Peterlee
Salters Lane, Shotton Colliery
Yoden Road (Temporarily Closed), Peterlee
Northumberland:
College Place, Ashington
Mitford (Temporarily Closed), Morpeth,
Scotland Gate, Choppington
St Mary’s Field, Morpeth
Ovingham
West Wylam, Prudhoe
Sinderhope, Hexham
Whitfield (Temporarily Closed), Hexham
Longframlington (Temporarily Closed)
North Broomhill (Temporarily Closed),
North Sunderland
Scremerston
Nelson Village, Cramlington
Horsley, The Crown And Anchor
Otterburn (Temporarily Closed)
Sunderland
The Drive, Washington, NE37 2LG
Mere Knolls Road, Sunderland
Millfield, Sunderland
Seaburn (Temporarily Closed)
Post offices to be replaced by an outreach service:
Ancroft, Berwick-upon-Tweed
Bamburgh
Doddington, Wooler
Longhorsley, Morpeth
Lowick, Berwick-upon-Tweed
Milfield, Wooler
Netherton, Morpeth
Norham, Berwick-upon-Tweed
North Charlton, Chathill
Scots Gap, Morpeth
Bardon Mill, Hexham
Belsay
Blanchland
Colwell, Hexham
Fourstones, Hexham
Gilsland, Brampton
Humshaugh
Langley on Tyne, Hexham
Newton, Stocksfield
Slaley
Stannington,
Whalton, Morpeth (temporarily closed)
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