Joanne Campaigns Against Formosa Street Post Office Closure

- Joanne Cash, Kit Malthouse and Little Venice Councillors show their support for resident’s campaign to save the Formosa Street, W9, Post Office
- Following Clifton Road closure, residents were assured that Formosa Street branch would remain open.
- Closure would have a devastating impact on Little Venice’s most vulnerable residents and significantly inconvenience the entire community.

Joanne Cash, this week, urged the Post Office Network to reconsider proposals to close the Formosa Street Post Office. Joanne was joined by London West Central GLA candidate Kit Malthouse and Little Venice’s Conservative Councillors Melvyn Caplan, Ian Adams and Margaret Doyle on a street stall designed to raise awareness amongst residents about the nature of the Post Office Network’s consultation process.

The Post Office on Formosa Street is one of three branches in Westminster North earmarked for closure under the Post Office’s Network Change Programme. This decision has caused outrage amongst local residents who, less than five years ago, were assured that this branch would remain open following the closure of the Post Office at Clifton Road.

Joanne said: “A tremendous number of local residents have been working extremely hard to ensure that this Post Office remains open. The Formosa Street Post Office provides an invaluable service to the entire community and, if it were to close, many of our most vulnerable residents would be forced to use the St John’s Wood or Queensway branches. For the Post Office Network to suggest that elderly people, local businesses and those with disabilities should have to make such a journey on a regular basis is utterly unacceptable.”

Pledging to do her utmost to save the Formosa Street Post Office, Joanne said; “It is fantastic to see so many people engaging in the political process and, regardless of political affiliation, fighting to reverse an unpopular decision that would impact on the entire community. It is an unfortunate fact that 2,500 branches of the Post Office across the country WILL close as a direct result of this Government’s Post Office closure programme; it is up to us to make sure that Formosa Street is not one of them.”