Garden centres to reopen this week as long as they impose social distancing rules - The Sun

GARDEN centres will reopen this week in a major boost to green-fingered Brits.

The reopening of garden centres will only go ahead if they can apply strict social distancing measures.

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Sun Gardening Editor Peter Seabrook visiting Abercorn garden centre Great Baddow Credit: News Group Newspapers Ltd

Garden centres are set to open doors on Wednesday — giving staff two days to install social-distancing tape and Perspex screens on tills.

Plans for non-essential shops to re-open were not mentioned in tonight's TV speech, instead they are expected to be revealed tomorrow or later this week.

Other shops will not open before June 1 under the current "road to recovery" set out by Boris Johnson tonight.

The PM laid out a roadmap to recovery in three stages.

In a video message tonight the PM said:

But the PM warned that the plans were conditional to infection rates dropping.

Shops allowed to stay open

ONLY a small group of retailers will be allowed to stay open, they include:

• Supermarkets
• Pharmacies
• Takeaways and food deliveries
• Health shops
• Medical services – eg, dentists
• Vets
• Newsagents
• Pet shops
• Hardware stores
• Retail shops in hospitals
• Petrol stations
• Bicycle shops
• Laundrettes and dry cleaners
• Undertakers
• Banks, building societies
• Short-term loan providers, credit unions and cash points
• Storage and distribution centres
• Post Offices
• Car rental services and car parks near vital services such as supermarkets
• Public toilets
• Car garages and repair shops
• Food banks and shelters

Workplaces that are allowed to reopen will have to follow strict new COVID-secure rules, such as separate entrances and exits, desks that face away from each other and possibly rotations of workforces to keep exposure to the minimum.

He added: "Throughout this period of the next two months we will be driven not by mere hope or economic necessity.

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"We are going to be driven by the science, the data and public health.

"And I must stress again that all of this is conditional, it all depends on a series of big Ifs."

Visits to pubs, cinemas and gigs will be banned for months.

While anyone entering the country will have to quarantine under new rules set out by the PM.

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