The Covid-19 pandemic has had an unprecedented impact on our lives. In some way all businesses across all sectors throughout Shropshire have been affected.

Our town centres have been impacted, some of which were already struggling following the severe flooding in February, followed by lockdown down on the March 23rd 2020 while the county was protecting its population during the pandemic.

Now though, our towns have opened up again since lockdown measures eased. Non-essential retail and hospitality businesses can trade, albeit with new restrictions to protect people, and consumers are able to return to the High Street.

We want to track how towns are adapting to the “new normal” and to monitor how consumer confidence is rebuilding so that we can make informed policy and investment decisions to help support town centre recovery.

There is some other material related to Covid-19 that you may find useful:

• Information for businesses and the self-employed can be found here.
• Businesses are reminded of the need to undertake a COVID risk assessment, more information on how to undertake this can be found here.
• Shropshire Council has made low cost COVID risk assessment training available which can be found here.
• You may find useful information on our Trading Standards pages
• There is also useful information on our Environmental Health pages