Keep Southwark Safe newsletter

[JohnL]

I got one of these from Southwark Council with some guidance and information on the second lockdown.

First note for me is I've got an MOT on 10th November and that is not forbidden by law but not mentioned in the newsletter as a specific purpose to leave home. Any other stuff missed ?

Deliveries to outside my block are also going ahead.

[AylwardS]

JohnL as you say the legislation allows you to leave home to go to any business that is open or to pick up anything pre-ordered. The guidance from the Council covers the minimum.

Too long or complicated and people won?t read it so it could never cover everything. As some won?t even do the minimum which could mean extra restrictions for more for longer keeping it simple seems like a good approach.

The Council website has a link to the government guidance with more detail and I think that was on what came through the door. The government guidance covers more but runs to pages. How many have found and read it but read the two pages that came through the door?

https://www.gov.uk/guidance/new-national-restrictions-from-5-november#businesses-and-venues

Hope your MOT is booked in I called yesterday and they advised me to book for an MOT due in January. First available date 21 December.

[ianr]

Where is this newsletter? I don't want to chip in without knowing exactly what it says, and I can't find anything that looks like it or mentions it in any of the Covid-19 council emails I've received, or in the Keep Southwark Safe Campaign webpage https://www.southwark.gov.uk/health-and-wellbeing/public-health/for-the-public/coronavirus/keeping-our-borough-free-from-covid-19/keep-southwark-safe-campaign, apart from the references to the government's own guideline webpages.

[Sue]

Mine was a letter delivered through the door (no envelope).

[AylwardS]

Apologies for the quality of the scan - I scanned it on my phone.

This is what came through our door. Having read it again it doesn?t mention being able to leave for an MOT or provide the link for government guidance but it does say ?This includes? so isn?t intended to be complete.