St. John's Wood Open Forum

Tuesday, 25 September, 2018

Local News

On Thursday 13th September over 100 local residents attended the latest St John's Wood Open Forum at St John's Wood Church organised by your ward councillors.

Councillors, Council and Police Officers were on hand to discuss important local community issues including CS11, the Post Office (PO), crime, the High Street and business rates. The meetings was timely given we had just heard the good news of our successful CS11 Judicial Review.

Councillors were able to put the record straight about the PO informing residents Westminster had been working hard to retain the Crown PO on Circus Road but the PO had made a commercial decision with the proposal to move away from directly-managed Crown branches to a franchise operation.

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