Keeping you posted
This morning, I spent two hours at London’s City Hall – a really impressibe building by Tower Bridge – attending a meeting of the London Assembly’s Health and Public Services Committee. I was there as the Chair of the Greater London Region of the consumer watchdog Postwatch to answer questions – together with four other witnesses – on the Committee’s inquiry into the future of the post office network.
In Britain as a whole, there are around 14,300 local post offices, but the Government has recently announced the planned closure of around 2,500 of them (although some 500 outreach schemes will also be introduced) because they are losing about £4M a week.
In London, there are currently about 850 post offices and the closure programme might result in some 150 going. All this is going to keep me busy for the last year of Postwatch’s lfe (the Government is going to merge the organisation with two other consumer bodies).
You can access a webcast of the hearing here.
February 6th, 2007 at 9:23 pm
i’ve a few pictures of city hall here:
http://www.funkypancake.com/blog/archives/cat_city_hall.html
including a few nice ones of the swirly staircase:
http://www.funkypancake.com/blog/archives/cat_city_hall.html?page=2
February 6th, 2007 at 10:58 pm
Great pictures – thanks for the links.
February 7th, 2007 at 12:14 pm
I like the idea that a local government building is ‘impressible’. Not so much in the hope that the building itself is easily lead but that the policies and decisions made within it are.
February 7th, 2007 at 4:57 pm
I really must improve my typing skills.