PENDLE Council reaffirmed its opposition to any more post office closures.
Post Office Ltd has been closing around 2,500 branches as part of a programme to reduce losses.
Now the council has stepped in to re-state its support for post offices as an integral part of the “social glue” of towns.
Although Royal Mail says all post offices due to be closed in Lancashire under the national closure policy have already been dealt with, Pendle Council is to instruct its chief executive to inform goverment ministers and Pendle MP Gordon Prentice of its opposition to any future closures in the Pendle area.
Coun Nadeem Ahmed will move a motion at the council meeting on Thursday.
He said: “If the Goverment review the structure again they could review Pendle again and we don’t want anymore closures. We’ve already had one in the Bradley ward close.”
A Royal Mail spokesman said: “We have dealt with Lancashire regarding to the national closure policy.”
Twenty-four post offices across East Lancashire, including Barkerhouse Road, Nelson; Bedford Street, Barrowford; and Gisburn Road, Barnoldswick, were axed earlier this year in the Government cost cutting exercise.
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