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Welcome for Post Office action
13 October 2003
A new partnership between the Post Office and the village pub means that two Derbyshire communities are celebrating the return of their local post office service.
News of the re-opening of Turnditch`s sub-post office in the Cross Keys pub has been warmly welcomed by Derbyshire county councillor Geoff Carlile who has spearheaded the authority`s fight to protect Derbyshire`s sub-post office network.
And the council`s campaign - backed by both the Post Office and the Derbyshire Federation of Sub Postmasters - received a further boost last week with the news that the north east Derbyshire hamlet of Lower Pilsley had followed the office-in-the-pub model. In a deal brokered by the local parish council a new `satellite` service will run two mornings each week at the Star Inn.
Councillor Carlile, cabinet member for regeneration, said: "We are grateful to the Post Office for the efforts it is making to return rural sub-post office services to Derbyshire communities where they have been recently lost.
"Over the last couple of years several Derbyshire villages have seen a part-time service attached to the village pub. It`s a great deal that combines an existing focal point for village life with a service that is much valued, particularly by those people without access to a car." Sub-post office services are also set to return to Heage with a new facility housed in a barn conversion within the courtyard of the Windmill Inn. Subject to planning permission and a grant towards conversion costs, the service should re-open early next year.
The county council and the Post Office are continuing their search for solutions to replace village post office services in Weston Underwood where the sub-post office closed in March and in Great Longstone where the service was lost in April.
Councillor Carlile said: "We recognise that it is hard for a sub-post office to be financially viable in a small community and the idea of combining it with another local business such as a pub, shop, café or village hall is the ideal compromise. "We`ve seen new services established in a number of villages and, in particular with the Post Office, we`ll continue our efforts to replace the services in these two villages whenever it becomes possible to do so."
A new partnership between the Post Office and the village pub means that two Derbyshire communities are celebrating the return of their local post office service.
News of the re-opening of Turnditch`s sub-post office in the Cross Keys pub has been warmly welcomed by Derbyshire county councillor Geoff Carlile who has spearheaded the authority`s fight to protect Derbyshire`s sub-post office network.
And the council`s campaign - backed by both the Post Office and the Derbyshire Federation of Sub Postmasters - received a further boost last week with the news that the north east Derbyshire hamlet of Lower Pilsley had followed the office-in-the-pub model. In a deal brokered by the local parish council a new `satellite` service will run two mornings each week at the Star Inn.
Councillor Carlile, cabinet member for regeneration, said: "We are grateful to the Post Office for the efforts it is making to return rural sub-post office services to Derbyshire communities where they have been recently lost.
"Over the last couple of years several Derbyshire villages have seen a part-time service attached to the village pub. It`s a great deal that combines an existing focal point for village life with a service that is much valued, particularly by those people without access to a car." Sub-post office services are also set to return to Heage with a new facility housed in a barn conversion within the courtyard of the Windmill Inn. Subject to planning permission and a grant towards conversion costs, the service should re-open early next year.
The county council and the Post Office are continuing their search for solutions to replace village post office services in Weston Underwood where the sub-post office closed in March and in Great Longstone where the service was lost in April.
Councillor Carlile said: "We recognise that it is hard for a sub-post office to be financially viable in a small community and the idea of combining it with another local business such as a pub, shop, café or village hall is the ideal compromise. "We`ve seen new services established in a number of villages and, in particular with the Post Office, we`ll continue our efforts to replace the services in these two villages whenever it becomes possible to do so."
