i would have preffered to see a post office in the high street to be honest........but f it has to be in the market place then so be it......
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my reasons....
the mini bus which a lot of the older generation use to acces the high street to start with stops right by the hight street ie barclays bank.... therefore the high street shops are easily acessesable..... the mini bus to my knowledge doesnt stop in the market place at all...so any of the pensioners or people who cant walk that far still be find it a struggle to walk from barclays bank to the market place and will have to rely on other to either get their money or do their transactions for them or transport them there instead.
unless of course the mini b us is going to change its route a bit and go to the market plaace as well as the high street..
will the market place parking area be able to cope with all the extra vehicles that having a p o there will make??
i agree the market place is looking 100% better since its transformation ( well done all) but why the need to put po there in the first place.... the business that are there are very speciallist and not something you go into every week even..... what is there?? 1 hotel 4 pubs 3 take aways and a one stop shop, not exactly a thriving area full of shops is it??
in the high street if that is the chosen area to put the new post office then there is already shops open and maybe struggling to survive and taking more people out of the area by getting them to go to the market place instead of the high street could be detrimental to a lot of th business in the high street.... many people couldnt manage to to "their business" in the market place and then get to the high street to do some more shopping or even get back to the bus stop
like a lot of others it doenst bother me where it goes as im capable of getting around and i have a car should i need to access it in othere places ie dilton, bratton, the ham..... im think more of the elder generation say t he 60's + ( yes some 60+ strugle through ill health to get around ) or people who have trouble getting about as it is, sticks and walking frames, chairs, these people are the ones who will find it the hardest to manage especially if they have no one to help them out on a more long term basis
maybe people who decide where these places go and if they are a viable option should also do it from the prospective of being unable to walk far...if they could only get about with the aid of a walking stick they would find out for themselves that barclays bank to the market place then back to the bank to catch the bus then walking back to their homes is going to be too far for many people..so they just wont do it.....they will have to rely of family to do it for t hem..if of course they have family nearby or even if they have family who want to start doing things like that for them on a more long term thing
just my thoughts looking at it through the eyes or the elderly ( i have spoken to a lot of my nans friends recently over this and these are the points that some of them have expressed) and some of the elderly custmoers i have helped out in coopers to ( i will talk and help anyone whho needs it)
like i said it really doesnt bother me where it goes in westbury so long as we get one..... i rarely use it for myself to be honest. but i do pay my nans bills there
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