It's also possible that they rode into Brixton on pink unicorns. Have you any evidence from any source suggesting that the main Post Office in Brixton was under threat of closure? Anything at all?
Of course I do. And S&P deserves criticism for it. But is a different issue altogether, and its inclusion in a discussion about whether they’re to blame for the downsizing of the Brixton PO is completely irrelevant and unrelated to the issue being discussed at this moment in time.
Since nobody on either side has any actual evidence about how the downsizing of the Brixton PO branch came to be, but there is ample and well documented evidence of an ongoing policy of widespread branch closures, and reduction of branch services & customer service counters on countless other PO branches, I think we all know which of the two scenarios is the more likely. And also which side of the argument is in far greater need of producing evidence to support their less likely claim.
No, not you. You didn’t introduce those issue to the discussion.
They can be discussed, and criticised by anyone who sees wrongful behaviour by S&P. But as several of us have said in the current discussion, none of the other issues mentioned are related to the Post Office discussion or offer any kind of proof that S&P forced the PO to downsize.
Only if a company company catering to the super rich decides they want the adjacent buildings for their own showcase vanity project. You might even get a vetted, members-only exclusive bar plus a shiny new glass dome too! Oh, and one of those faux 'community spaces' as well.
Wait. So you're positing that the arrival of Squire & Partners has absolutely nothing to do with the PO being shunted into shitty new premises? Wow.
I said scrutinised or criticised, so I wasn’t necessarily agreeing with anything in particular. As to the issues, they are those that others, not me, have raised over the last couple of years. Such as possible impact on local rents, or as a driver of further gentrification, or their community values.
I am posting that there is no evidence at all that the management of the Brixton Post Office were forced by S&P to downsize. It might have happened or it might not. But patterns elsewhere more than suggest it is not unusual or far fetched at all that the PO was intending to downsize all along as part of the firm’s nationwide drive to close branches and sell off and reduce costs in others. And it was going to happen regardless of who was going to take over the building.
Sorry, who sho said they were "forced"?
This is a poor analogy but to run with it: if Sainsbury's were architects and took over the building to turn it into their show stopping vanity headquarters - while shunting the Post Office into smaller premises as part of the very same development - then it would be very odd to then claim that they played absolutely no part in the relocation/down-sizing.
Forced, driven to, not given the option to remain in their existing size... you know what I meant.
You have absolutely nothing to support your case, yet you choose to defend the multi-million, all-gentrifying, exclusive vetted private bar incomers.
