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The caravan moves on
SO THE excellent Balcombe Road post office in Horley is to die (Life, April 16).
The caravan of death, which killed off educational choice and sixth-form provision 20 years ago in the spurious name of expediency, has rattled through our town again.
At the "consultation inquiry" many compelling points were made against the execution by people who really know Horley to the camel drivers who did not.
These included the acute problems of east-west access across our arterial railway line for the less able, the prolific east sector housing development, the superior opening hours at Balcombe Road with immediate parking, the siege of queueing at the west office and the huge increase of the Horley population with the inexorable master plan.
In stark contrast, the "case" for closure was moribund and unconvincing and clearly prejudged. Horley's needs were irrelevant.
The best efforts of our beleaguered community, strongly led by our MP Peter Ainsworth, came to nothing.
The Government's puppets have danced. The camels were blind.
Alan Tracey, Rickwood, Langshott
10:26am Tuesday 15th April 2008
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