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As far as I am aware the Bollo Lane building is a Royal Mail sorting office not a Post Office so there are no counter services there.The article suggests that Royal Mail are only a leaseholder at the moment so they will have no involvement in the redevelopment of the site and I don't see how a new Post Office could be provided in the building as they are closing Crown Post Offices. Making it a sub post office would be really complicated and probably unviable.Other than the loss of the post office, delivery office and sorting office, a redevelopment of this ugly building would be very welcome and I would assume that it would be no higher than the nearby mansion blocks which establish precedence for the area.I don't think I will be persuaded to oppose the building of housing here. Any new housing built in Chiswick these days is beyond the means of most local residents but if we are going to end the housing crisis and tackle homelessness, most of the new homes have to be built by the private sector for profit as has always been the case in this country. No developer builds flats that are unaffordable, someone will buy them and someone will live in them and creating extra supply reduces upward pressure on prices and rents.That said, I'm sceptical that we are on the cusp of an announcement about a development. Particularly if the delivery office remains open, this looks like an issue between the sub postmaster and Royal Mail i.e. tenant and landlord or unavailability of key personnel.

Francis Rowe ● 38d

If it's still closed, this is very worrying indeed. We need our Post Office as you can pay in/draw money from your bank account, given almost all the banks in Chiswick High Road have closed. And we need it for the many other services available through the Post Office. The Acton Post Office, up Bollo Lane is not a realistic proposition for local people. There are two railway crossings en route, in frequent use. It's a long, long walk from the main road, to the Post Office itself. I have an awful feeling that Trillium, the property arm of BT, which also owns the large, former telephone exchange building at the back of the site, has its eyes on some massive development .... huge blocks of flats, at unaffordable prices?! As a community, we need to find out what we can about Trillium's and the Royal Mail's plans for the site. At all costs, 'development' in the form of blocks of 10, 11, 12, 13-storey flats is totally unacceptable. We need a post office and Royal Mail service. The building at the back could be converted for use as work spaces, the ground floor, with its wonderful Art Deco curved area, could be turned into a community café. The concrete could be dug up to provide play spaces for children and allotment spaces. I have just written to Labour councillors at LBH. I will also be writing to the Conservative councillors for Turnham Green. Is there an appetite for joined-up action, to ensure that Trillium/Royal Mail do not turn the site into luxury flats, unaffordable for the majority of local residents?

Pamela Mayorcas ● 38d