Georgetown is to get its full-time publish workplace service restored at a brand new everlasting website. A short lived service has been working from Georgetown Library since August following the resignation of operator CJ Lang from the Spar store.
Nonetheless, neighborhood appeals, backed by native politicians, urged the Publish Workplace to give you a extra everlasting answer with extra hours.
The library publish workplace service will shut on Friday, Could 20, at 3pm and the brand new Georgetown Publish Workplace – providing 57 hours of Publish Workplace service per week –will probably be launched throughout the Premier Retailer, 43 Calside Highway on Monday, Could 23, at 1pm.
A Publish Workplace counter will function alongside the retail counter of the comfort retailer Monday to Saturday from 8am to five.30pm. Steven Simpson, Publish Workplace community provision lead, stated: “We're delighted to be restoring a everlasting, full-time Publish Workplace at Georgetown as we all know how vital a Publish Workplace is to a neighborhood.
“We sincerely thank Dumfries and Galloway Council for offering the library premises within the interim which allowed us to keep up service to the neighborhood.”
Though the neighborhood has been given the choice to provide suggestions till Could 27 – on-line at postofficeviews.co.uk with the department code 226818 – Mr Simpson stated that, given the appeals already for a everlasting answer: “We're eager to revive full-time providers to this neighborhood as quickly as attainable, so we now have determined to go forward with our plans.”
South of Scotland MSP Colin Smyth stated: “That is nice information for Georgetown and it's right down to the laborious work and dedication of the neighborhood who've labored tirelessly to assist safe a brand new residence for his or her Publish Workplace. I’m additionally grateful to Publish Workplace and the store homeowners who've responded with this proposal.
“For nearly a yr I've been working with native councillors, companies and teams to search out options to the Publish Workplace closures of their areas and I’m completely happy this has labored out in Georgetown.
“Nonetheless, there are nonetheless different cities and villages in our space that are struggling to search out long run options to Publish Workplace closures. Numerous work nonetheless must be carried out and we'd like the assistance of native companies and the neighborhood to make sure we don’t lose these providers. Having a Publish Workplace in the neighborhood is important for therefore lots of my constituents, significantly those that are older or individuals who can’t journey simply.”