There are two new planning appplications for single houses in the Queens Park Area.

Balfour Rd-corner of Trinity Avenue
APPLICATION NO: N/2008/160 Date Valid 12/02/2008
Proposal Erection of split level dwelling - amendment to previously approved N/2003/0363.
Location Building Plot rear of 166 Balfour Road Northampton.
Applicant Mr A Symons 21 Pentalek Road Camborne Cornwall TR14 7AZ.
Agent WCA Chartered Surveyors Albany House 16 Chapel Street Camborne Cornwall TR14 8ED.
Case Officer Amy Mottram

Balmoral Road
APPLICATION NO: N/2008/212 Date Valid 21/02/2008
Proposal Erection of end-of-terrace dwelling
Location 90 Balmoral Road Northampton.
Applicant Mr. A. Dennis 31 Ridgeway Weston Favell Northampton NN3 3AP

Despite public opposition it has been confirmed that Queens Park Post Office will close.

Clearly by announcing these closures earlier than originally planned the Post Office has ignored the case put by local people to keep these offices open. The whole consultation process appears to have been a sham – less than a month has been taken to look at people’s responses and decide which looks suspiciously like a decision that had already been made.

It seems that the Post Office was simply running a ‘numbers game’ where people don’t matter. How hollow their current advertising slogan now sounds.

The Labour Government clearly wanted to close 2,500 across the Country and that means closing offices in Northampton despite the strong cases made to keep them open. Labour MP Sally Keeble has supported her Governments plans for the Post Office in Parliament yet campaigned against the closures in Northampton. Clearly she has misled people by making them think there was a chance to change her Government’s plans – when there was not. She needs to explain her position.

Local Lib Dem Councillors will continue to do all we can to fight these closure plans.