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The Old Post Office
- MJR (30th Nov 2021 - 15:52:29)

Congratulations to Stedman Blower Architects who have created a superb Christmas themed display in their office window located at The Old Post Office in The Square Liphook.

Well worth viewing!

Photos of the display are on the stedmanblower Facebook page

Re: The Old Post Office
- Pete (1st Dec 2021 - 07:59:27)

Walked past last night and thought the same, great display good looking tree as well. Maybe Greene King could make a bit of an effort outside the pub.

It seems at last there are some businesses coming into the square that are trying to create a nice interesting place to meet eat and shop. With the addition of the new cinema / bar Liphook square could and should be thriving, of course the fly in the ointment being the six roads and three roundabouts.

Re: The Old Post Office
- paul (1st Dec 2021 - 12:10:54)

So where would you say is a nice place to shop in the square? At the last count not sure I could see many places? Yes the old Post office is looking smart but it is a business which I am not sure many in Liphook would avail themselves of as across the road in the old computer shop is a similar business, redesigning your home. What we need in the square is something which many would find useful, so far not a lot apart from the new cinema development.

Re: The Old Post Office
- Pete (2nd Dec 2021 - 08:42:00)

Paul - Sorry did you actually read my post, I said there are "SOME businesses coming into the square TRYING to make a difference". I also said MEET, EAT and shop.

My post was to highlight the fact that some businesses in the square are making a real effort, (lazy lizard, Sweetshop, L&S, Old post office. When some businesses start to make an effort in an area it tends to create an uplift in the whole area by making it a more attractive place to start a business.

Maybe I just misread the tone but it seems you homed in on one aspect of my optimistic post to pick an argument and turn the whole thread into a pessimistic one. Well done you.

Re: The Old Post Office
- Sarah (2nd Dec 2021 - 09:54:36)

Pete - I completely agree with everything you said. That part of Liphook looks lovely at the moment, from Hamptons, Feebz, L&S and the architects, particularly when I drove through last night and saw all the Christmas lights. So cheerful! Hopefully the cinema will just add to it too. Also agree that the Lazy Lizard and Sweet Treatz look great and Homes has also looked very smart. Just lovely to see when businesses care.

Re: The Old Post Office
- Caroline (3rd Dec 2021 - 12:33:20)

Agree that the Square looks lovely and festive. Well done to everyone involved!

Re: The Old Post Office
- Dave mcgrath (3rd Dec 2021 - 20:40:56)

Yes the square looks lovely until you see that hideous advert on the old mobility shop which spoils the whole outlook, liphook autos operates out of Bordon or Lindford to be precise! It is not a liphook business, so WHY are we subjected to a mass of a blue and white Giant poster across the whole shopfront overlooking the main street? It is a conservation area so WHY has our parish council and ehdc not jumped on it? I live in the conservation area and abide by its planning rules so WHY is this being allowed? I repeat, this business is not liphook based so why is the owner allowing this , not withstanding i am sure it must contravene planning! Before I get shouted down I am not anti local businesses but it is an eyesore ! end of!

Re: The Old Post Office
- Gr (3rd Dec 2021 - 21:25:38)

Dm it looks tidier than old mobility shop

Re: The Old Post Office
- Pete (4th Dec 2021 - 07:53:03)

Gr- I thought that, its not great but it's better than looking into a derelict shop.

Re: The Old Post Office
- Sarah (4th Dec 2021 - 10:17:03)

Does anyone know if the old mobility shop is actually up for rent? I notice the dentist is, but haven’t seen any signs for the mobility shop.

Re: The Old Post Office
- Local Resident (8th Dec 2021 - 10:06:08)

"that hideous advert on the old mobility shop which spoils the whole outlook"

I agree 110%.

I assume they don't need planning permission to do this.

But it is a kick in the teeth for all those business who are making an effort in the Square.

LAS should be ashamed of themselves.

Re: The Old Post Office
- Jane B (8th Dec 2021 - 14:41:08)

DM, i think that is a little far fetched, Liphook Auto Services are within the area being 5/10 minutes down the road.
The advertising looks better than the derelict Mobility shop that had closed down.

What is the issue with advertising a local business in this day and age.

Well done to Liphook Auto Services for making the village look better.

Re: The Old Post Office
- D (8th Dec 2021 - 15:23:35)

Liphook Auto Services' origins lay at the Beaver Industrial Estate so it is a Liphook Business. What is an eyesore, in my opinion, are those temporary structures outside two of the cafes in the square. When the cafe near Barclays Bank did a similar thing years ago they were told to take it down.

Re: The Old Post Office
- Jane B (8th Dec 2021 - 19:40:59)

I think personally you have nothing better to do than be a keyboard warrior! Clearly if you this is such a problem you have no life.

Let businesses do what they need to do. Advertising isn’t hurting anyone in my eyes and nor is the wooden structures where the cafe’s are concerned.

Re: The Old Post Office
- D (8th Dec 2021 - 21:23:49)

What is it with people that they can't just say "I don't agree with you"? Why do a very small minority think it necessary to use derogotary remarks such as "keyboard warrior" and "troll"?

Re: The Old Post Office
- Joe (8th Dec 2021 - 23:05:50)

There are planning rules on what signs including advertising should look like in a conservation area. If anything goes it quickly becomes as tatty as the worst run down area anywhere and will lose the conservation status. There is a report on EHDCs website on Liphook which states that some of the conservation area is not looking good.

Re: The Old Post Office
- D (9th Dec 2021 - 08:52:41)

We must get away from this fanciful idealistic chocolate box image of Liphook. It isn't and never has been. Conservation area? Seems more demolition going on than conserving.

Re: The Old Post Office
- Sarah (9th Dec 2021 - 10:19:22)

Why can’t it be viewed as Chocolate Box? It is a pretty area and lots of the buildings in the square are old and historical and could look fantastic. Why does there have to be such negativity about people wanting things to look nice.

Re: The Old Post Office
- Pete (9th Dec 2021 - 11:43:29)

Sorry D cant agree with you or not entirely anyway. Yes although we cant live in a chocolate box village at the expense of progress, Liphook once was that chocolate box village (or as much as any village has been in real life) and the vast majority of buildings that give a place its character are still standing. With the willingness, proper thought processes and correct use of funding (from all sources) the square could an I would argue should be a shining example of a progressive village centre that has retained its heritage.

Re: The Old Post Office
- Very old resident (9th Dec 2021 - 15:19:26)

Sorry D have to agree with Sara & Pete !iphook was and still is a VERY pretty village. When the A3 went through motorist used to say what a pretty village. What I just cannot understand is why some people have gone out of there way to protect the unused farm land behind Bohunt school because it’s in the National park at the demise of the square when it could go a long way to help relief traffic just cannot get my head around it. I thought the National parks were supposed to protect conservation areas the square should take president over everything. Loads of towns and villages have managed to save their communities and history from the motor vehicles why can’t we . The square is fantastic wouldn’t it be nice to sit at one of the lovely coffee shops without having to breathe in traffic fumes huge lorries rumbling bye all the time. Why do people not want to save anything history is very precious.

Re: The Old Post Office
- er (9th Dec 2021 - 15:47:56)

No sorry, Liphook is certainly not 'chocolate box' there are a few great photo spots, but it's clearly the most uncoordinated, poorly planned High Street, Square or whatever we laughingly choose to call it! I don't think there was ever a market here like in Peterfield or Haslemere, both slightly more chocolate box!

It is simply the distorted remnant of a busy intersection dating back several hundred years at most, to a time just after the introduction of stage coaches, where exhausted passengers could stop for the night after surviving the ride over the highwayman infested Devil's Punchbowl, and yes that history is interesting, but resulted in more of a crossroads than a High Street, and Station Road is handy but obviously in no way chocolate box either!

Thankfully the London to Portsmouth traffic has now bypassed Liphook, yes we had all that A3 commercial traffic right here once, but with a massive increase in housebuilding and zero other alternative routes through, it's still not exactly a 'must visit' tourist stop!

So what is it?

We can't embrace the truly modern, like Bordon with some really interesting new spaces, we cling to the past like Haslemere and Petersfield, but when people come to visit from afar, we take them to the Punchbowl to see nature, to Haslemere, Alton, Petersfield etc to get a proper old world High Street experience, a wander through the Square is all a bit brief and traffic ridden, narrow pavements and plenty of busy road crossing to get anywhere.

Many of the buildings have needed a lick of paint for a while and are very ordinary. A few spots are pretty, but it's hit and miss.

Personally I think we should shut all roads off completely once or twice a year and have a real pedestrian market experience to see what it could have been like, then we could invite our friends to actually experience our town, yes the motorists will go crazy, because the detours are 15-20 minutes long, tough!

Could the Parish Council try that or is it a district council thing, because I don't believe East Hampshire care about Liphook, it's just somewhere to plonk housing estates which sell for more because apparently, we're an oldie woldie chocolate box village with great transport links!

Re: The Old Post Office
- Joe (9th Dec 2021 - 17:54:59)

Closing the 6 routes in and out of the square would be chaos. If I had a relative waiting for an ambulance I would not best pleased. It is neither the parish nor district council it would be Hampshire county council highways dept.

Re: The Old Post Office
- Anon (9th Dec 2021 - 19:05:17)

The farmland isn’t unused, it’s being farmed, currently with fodder beet.

Re: The Old Post Office
- paulRobinson (9th Dec 2021 - 22:30:58)

So, forget all about the feral posts about chocolate box vistas. My family and I have lived in the village for over thirty years and we appreciate the steps that businesses in the village centre have taken in the festive period.

The Old Post Office should be commended for a first class spectacle., as indeed should L & S Coffee shop for their magical windows.

Paul Robinson

Re: The Old Post Office
- Richard (14th Dec 2021 - 13:03:15)

Have just seen the excellent display . It’s so well done and a real touch of class added to The Square. Well done to those involved.

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