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Monday 13 July 2020
 We have now launched our Havering Hero parking permit scheme.
It offers free parking to NHS and care workers for three hours at a time within certain areas. This includes NHS staff, emergency services and social workers.
The purpose of this permit is to make it easier for the key workers helping the most vulnerable in the community. It will allow them to get around the borough as easily as possible ensuring their patients continue to get the care and medicines they need during the coronavirus crisis. You can read more about this later in this bulletin.
We are also making it easier to visit local shops with our "Stop and Shop" hour of free parking in parking bays in our neighbourhood shopping areas, and use of the RingGo app where you can get 20 per cent off the cost of parking in Havering Council's car parks.
Thanks once again to everyone who followed the health advice at the weekend to socially distance when out shopping or enjoying some of the leisure activities now permitted under new government guidelines.
Please stay safe. If you think you have coronavirus symptoms get tested as soon as you can.
Cllr Damian White,
Leader, Havering Council
Havering Council has launched its Havering Hero parking permit scheme.
The Havering Hero permit enables NHS staff, emergency service employees, domestic carers (people who look after relatives or other residents on a non-paid basis), social care key workers (such as social workers, occupational therapists, home care workers and personal assistants) and those dropping off food and essentials via volunteer services, working for our community hub or for voluntary sector partners to have three hours of free parking in certain areas.
Holders of the new permit wil be able to park in resident parking bays for a maximum stay of 3 hours with no return to that bay for 2 hours, and also in Council-run car parks for a maximum stay of 3 hours with no return to that bay for 2 hours.
Permit holders will not be allowed to to park on single, double yellow lines, bus lanes, restricted bus stops, red route clearways or where there is a loading only or a loading restriction ban in operation.
The permit must be displayed in the windscreen of the permit holder's vehicle.
You can apply to get a Havering Hero permit via the Council's website.
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From today (Monday 13 July) the Government has said that beauty salons, spas, nail bars, tattooists and tanning salons can reopen.
However, no treatments are to be provided on the face until government advice changes.
Specific guidance was provided last week.
Please read that before reopening one of these businesses.
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Havering Council now publishes a weekly report on coronavirus in Havering on its website.
It includes information on the number of Havering residents testing positive for COVID-19 each week, starting from 6 March 2020.
It also compares the number of new cases in Havering with neighborouring boroughs and the regional and national figures.
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From today (Monday,13 July), parking enforcement has been brought back for business and resident bays in Havering.
Current permit holders will receive a three-month extension from this date.
If you have a resident or business parking permit these are the revised renewal dates:
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Your original renewal date
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When you should now renew
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23 March to 31 March 2020
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8 July to 30 July 2020
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1 April to 30 April 2020
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8 July to 30 July 2020
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1 May to 31 May 2020
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1 August to 31 August 2020
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1 June to 30 June 2020
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1 September to 31 September 2020
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1 July to 31 July 2020
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1 October to 31 October 2020
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1 August to 31 August 2020
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1 November to 30 November 2020
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1 September to 30 September 2020
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1 December to 31 December 2020
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1 October to 31 October 2020
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1 January to 31 January 2021
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1 November to 30 November 2020
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1 February to 28 February 2021
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1 December to 31 December 2020
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1 March to 30 March 2021
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1 January to 31 January 2021
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1 April to 30 April 2021
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1 February to 28 February 2021
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1 May to 31 May 2021
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1 March to 31 March 2021
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1 June to 31 June 2021
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The return of parking enforcement is to ensure that the borough’s road network operates safely and efficiently, in particular for emergency services. It also means that permit holders receive the service they pay for.
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If you’re parking in Havering, use RingGo, the parking app with millions of users nationwide.
You can use your phone to pay for parking with RingGo across Havering. It’s quick, secure and you don’t have to hunt around for loose change to feed a parking machine.
You can use it when parking in pay and display bays, and, if you use it when parking in one of Havering Council's car parks you get a 20 per cent discount on the parking fee.
You can download the free RingGo parking app from the Apple Appstore or Google Play Store.
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Restaurants and other establishments serving food for consumption on their premises can now sign up to a new government initiative encouraging people to safely return to dining out.
Restaurants, bars, cafes and other establishments which use the scheme will offer a 50% reduction, up to a maximum of £10 per person, to all diners who eat and/or drink-in every Monday to Wednesday, between 3 and 31 August 2020.
Businesses will receive a window sticker to show they are using the scheme.
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A mobile testing unit for COVID-19 will be at Havering Town Hall again this week.
The unit will be in Havering on Thursday 16 July, and Sunday 19 July.
Before you attend the site in Romford, you will need to make an appointment.
The testing at the Town Hall rear car park is between 10.30am and 3.30pm.
Vehicles and pedestrians should enter via Park End Road, Romford RM1 4AU, where a one-way drive and walk through system will be in place. Please do not try to enter from Main Road.
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Today (13 July) the Government launched a new public information campaign setting out the actions businesses and individuals need to take to prepare for the end of the transition period out of the EU on 31 December 2020.
The campaign will include information for the general public, and for businesses that import or export to the EU.
The end of the transition period will mean many changes. For example, the end of Freedom of Movement will mean that visits by UK nationals to the EU will be limited to no more than 90 days in any 180-day period.
Government advice includes:
- Making sure you are ready to travel to Europe from 1 January 2021 by getting comprehensive travel insurance, ensuring your passport is valid, and checking your roaming policy with your mobile phone provider.
- If you want to travel to Europe with your pet from 1 January 2021, contact your vet at least four months before you travel.
- Making sure your business is ready to export or import from or to the EU, for example by getting an EU EORI number, or registering with the relevant Customs Authority.
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Havering Council is recruiting volunteers aged over 50 who can use their life experiences to help local young people to achieve their aspirations.
More mature people are being sought to become Future Choice Mentors for young people between the ages of 18 and 24 who are in care or who have left care to help them to achieve their goals in employment, education and training.
There are currently around 250 young people in care in the borough living in foster care, semi-independently or in residential accommodation.
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All London buses are now taking payments after enhanced safety measures were installed across the fleet to protect drivers and customers from coronavirus.
Customers are now required to touch in with Oyster, contactless and concessionary cards on all buses, entering through the front doors on most buses in a near complete return to traditional front-door boarding arrangements.
Temporary bus capacity limits have now been increased in line with the Government’s latest social distancing guidance.
Double-decker buses can now carry 30 passengers, while single-deckers, depending on size, can carry either 11 or 14 passengers.
Signs on buses clearly mark these new passenger limits, and drivers have the discretion to allow more customers on board if they are travelling in household groups.
A one customer off, one customer on policy operates on buses at full capacity.
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Highfield Road near Upminster Bridge tube station will be closed at its junction with Upminster Road for gas main replacement work from today (Monday 13 July) until Friday 28 August.
The Walk nearby will also be closed from the side of No 95 Upminster Road to the junction with Upminster Road for work from today until 14 September.
Havering Road in Collier Row will be closed overnight from tonight (Monday 13 July) until Saturday 18 July for carriageway resurfacing work.
Essex and Suffolk Water will be working in Abbs Cross Lane in Hornchurch at the junction with Sunrise Avenue tomorrow night (14 July).
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Havering Council's fostering team is hosting their first art competition.
It is open to all children in care and all care leavers.
The art can come in many forms, including poetry, photography, painting, or dance.
There will be two categories: under 18’s and over 18’s.
A winner will be picked by an independent guest judge and announced on Friday 24 July. Every entry will receive a certificate and the lucky winners in each category will receive a £30 voucher.
Entries should be emailed to fostering@havering.gov.uk.
The closing date for submissions is Sunday 19 July.
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