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   WHAT NEXT FOR ABINGDON STREET? ASKS GORDON

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Gordon Marsden MP today went to examine the former Crown Post Office site on Abingdon Street in Blackpool.

Gordon Marsden has now written to Post Office managing director Alan Cook demanding urgent answers about what will happen to the Grade II-listed building in Abingdon Street.

Gordon expressed his concerns to residents who were there to meet him that it could be left to fall into disrepair and is calling for a guarantee from the Post Office that it will not be allowed to degenerate into an eyesore in the town centre.

In the letter to Mr Cook, Mr Marsden says there is "widespread concern" about the century-old building. He says: "I'd like to know urgently what plans you have for the building and what specific steps you are taking while it's unoccupied to keep is secure, in good repair and maintained."
Gordon has met with Post Office officials and is pressing the point home to them that this issue will not go away. "I have said that i will keep a very close eye on the Abingdon Street site. They wont get away with leaving it empty".

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 Message left at 09:24 am, Mon 14th Jul 2008
Dear Mr. Marsden The Post Office relocated the services of the central Post oFfice to the basement of W H Smith without any public consultation. By doing so it acted illegally and outside the public interest. The cramped quarters and inadequate access for those with a mobility handicap make a mockery of the facilities provided for the residents and the millions of visitors to Blackpool every year. When are we going have the facilities relocated back to the Abingdon Street premises? This is the only logical and practical solution. Failing that what other location could be usefully employed? If the Post Office is intractible in its attitude to the above solution then it falls on the Borough Council to come up with a realistic alternative and follow the lead taken by Essex CC and other local authorities around the UK Regards Lance Fogg
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