Resident surged to show ‘ resilience’ over Nottingham’s Tier 3 controls

RESIDENTS IN Nottingham and surrounding boroughs have been urged to keep showing “resilience” ahead of new Tier 3 controls coming into force.

Tougher Covid- 19 rules for Nottingham city and the Broxtowe, Gedling and Rushcliffe borough council areas will come into force tomorrow.

Nottingham will join Warrington as well as the Liverpool City Region, Greater Manchester, Lancashire and

South Yorkshire in having fresh restrictions imposed in Tier 3.

Under blanket pre- existing Tier 3 measures, bars and pubs in the city will have to close unless they serve substantial meals.

Households will also be banned from mixing indoors or in private gardens and beer gardens, affecting some 700,000 people across the city and three neighbouring local authority areas.

A package of financial support measures for affected businesses and workers, agreed with Government, will be put in place, in line with other areas where Tier 3 measures have been imposed.

It is understood that councils managed to convince ministers to allow gyms, cinemas, theatres, hair salons and barber shops to remain open, during a week of intensive negotiations over specific controls for the area.

Rushcliffe Borough Council leader Simon Robinson said he believes the measures are supported by a “majority” of residents. He said people are showing “a lot of resilience, because people understand we need to get on top of the virus”.

The announcement of south Nottinghamshire’s measures promised a review after 28 days, with it promised to be a regular process. He said: “We’ll all be analysing that data to see what impact the restrictions are actually having. We do need to see it come down, not plateau. Plateau won’t be good enough. We’ve got to actually see these infection rates coming down, particularly in the over- 60s.”