Hinckley town centre gets ready to safely re-open

Safety measures are being put in place to help adhere to social distancing guidance.

Hinckley & Bosworth Borough Council with Hinckley BID are working with businesses to get Hinckley town centre ready to safely re-open.

It's following the announcement that retail and shops can reopen from Monday 15th June.

Hinckley & Bosworth Borough Council says new safety measures which includes pavement signage, banners, hand sanitiser stations, stewards to help and advise shoppers and guidance for shops to keep ‘covid-compliant’ are among the precautions being implemented to help adhere to social distancing guidance.

The team are also supporting shopping areas across the borough. 

Council Leader Stuart Bray said: “For everyone emerging from lockdown it is going to be a learning process. As things unfold, we will all need to change our processes and our shopping and town centres are no different.
“Our approach currently is based on trusting people to follow the social distancing guidance and highlighting the safeguards that need to be in place to protect our residents, visitors and businesses. We will be reviewing how the first few days go and if we need to review and change our plans we will do.  We will do whatever we can to make sure our borough is safe. 
“We do however need our residents to play their part; follow the guidelines and consider carefully and plan their shopping to ensure their safety and the safety of others.”

Steve Wegerif, Hinckley BID Director said “Throughout the pandemic we have been working to help support the businesses in our area and as our town centre starts to slowly re-open it is our priority to support them during this ‘new normal’.  There is a lot of behind-the-scenes work going on to enable the town to reopen safely, all part of a borough-wide recovery strategy.”