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What’s uniting MPs at the moment? If I give you three guesses, I bet you won’t get it.

Ok, you win.

It’s low-level letterboxes.

They hate them.

As do postal workers, not surprisingly.

If anyone can relate to the postal workers, it’s MPs and any seasoned political campaigners, who spend most of their weekends knocking on people’s doors and putting leaflets through letterboxes in all kinds of weather.

They will have tried desperately to avoid the bits of metal on the other side of the box, or the fuzzy bit, or tried to shove a leaflet into a box that was too small, or upright (not horizontal).

Every MP, councillor and activist will have either experienced or heard of someone putting a leaflet through a low-level letterbox on polling day and subsequently been bitten by a dog, or hurt their back.

In January this year, just a few hours before the no confidence motion in the government, Conservative MP for Chelmsford Vicky Ford, introduced a piece of legislation which brought MPs of all parties together in unison.

A private members’ bill banning low level letter boxes and changing the UK building regulations to bring our current building standards up to European levels, meaning that all new builds will have letterboxes 0.7 – 1.7m higher from the ground.

The campaign itself has been a long-standing campaign by postal workers’ unions like the Communications Workers Union (CWU).

The aim of the campaign was to curb the number of back injuries, dog bites and other injuries suffered owing to low level letterboxes. Last year alone it is estimated that 16,800 back-related injuries were suffered by postal workers as a result of low level letterboxes.

With divisions on the left and right, it’s good to see that politicians can unite around harder to reach issues facing the UK.

And when you’re designing your next home, make sure you get that letterbox right – politicians will be the first to thank you.

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Top work

Thank you to the team! They did top work on this.

Smooth operation

Many thanks for last night: a very smooth operation!

Message was very welcome

Was a great result – especially to receive unanimous approval! Many thanks also for you and your team’s work in the run up to the committee. Getting those messages across really helped and was evident by the feedback given by members on both sides of the political spectrum … notably on the successfully engagement with residents and how the scheme responded accordingly. Message was very welcome!

On point

Harry was on point and has been the whole way through. We are all very chuffed. We are already preparing for another rather testing application on another site and you can be certain that we will engage you

Appreciated

Thanks Richard, your help has been much appreciated. Will let you know when the next job comes up!

Big guns!

Thanks for your and the team’s help. It was good to know we had the proverbial big guns in our armoury!

You kept calm

Many thanks for that: your team did very well, and kept a lot calmer than me! Matt was a sensible wise head, as was Alex, but he also made me think succinctly for the questions and how to answer, which is a great skill to try and acquire. Especially for someone as verbose as me!

A unanimous approval

Councillors praised both officers and the developer on their work and engagement.

A unanimous approval 5-0

With your help

Really pleased to hear the news this evening

With your help, we got it through !!!!

Best Regards!

Truly excellent example

Great news that we approved 60 houses on green belt last night.

It was tremendous that the Chair said that this was a “truly excellent example of good consultation…”

Gave me more confidence

Thank you – we were both somewhat surprised given the level of objections but in fact the committee hardly discussed the scheme at all before consenting it.

Thanks to your team for preparing me well for the committee which certainly gave me more confidence.

A big relief

Thank you. A big relief. As I am sure you can appreciate, we are delighted!

Your team did a great job, especially Matt who was integral.

I look forward to catching up soon.

Unanimous

196 flats approved unanimously, thanks to all involved.

Professional and effective

I wanted to thank you and all at Thorncliffe for managing the consultation process so professionally and effectively. This, without doubt, played a crucial role in gaining the approval.

Once again, all our thanks.

Was a good result

Cant remember the last time I got anything through unanimously!

Was a good result, it’s the right scheme for the site and of course we had a great team including yourselves working on it,

First class troops

Richard. Your troops did a first class job as always. Many thanks

Praise for communityUK

Well done for the way you presented tonight’s online consultation. I thought it was an excellent format.

Great result last night

I just wanted to say thank you again for all your help with the great result last night.

You have been tremendous and it is much appreciated.

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