Operators have said being omitted from the Government’s grant system has left them with daunting questions about how they will be able to reopen their pubs.
Following the extension of the UK lockdown, preventing non-essential businesses such as pubs from reopening and limiting the public’s activities, operators have raised concerns about the immediate future of their businesses.
Two licensees have said they believe rent should be cancelled for the period pubs are closed and, without this move, they will be in too much debt to reopen.
The husband and wife team behind the opening of an East Yorkshire micropub have announced that their new site will begin takeaway and delivery service at 3pm on 30 April despite the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic.
Beer drinkers and pubgoers across the nation are sending emails in their thousands to pub company bosses, asking them to cancel rents to save local pubs from permanent closure.
Some 250 pubs have a rateable value that is just one penny away from the higher Government grant of £25,000, which operators say is ‘make or break’ for their survival.
One of the sector’s largest trade bodies has written to the Government in a bid to to protect pubs from being punished by landlords for failing to make rent payments.
The announcement by the Prime Minister that all pubs, restaurants and cafes must close has left many in the industry reeling, despite growing expectation of the announcement.
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