For more information regarding supporting businesses and the local economy, please see our Approach to Planning Requirements - Coronavirus Update page

• Business support
  A package of measures from government to support businesses
  
  
• Self-employed Income Support Scheme
  How to access the support scheme to continue paying part of employees’ salaries for those that would otherwise have been laid off during this crisis.
  
  
• Coronavirus job retention scheme
  How to use this scheme if you're self-employed or a member of a partnership and have lost income due to coronavirus
  
  
• Deferring VAT and Income Tax payments
  How government is supporting businesses by deferring Valued Added Tax (VAT) payments for 3 months
  
  
• Statutory sick pay relief packages for small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs)
  Legislation to allow small-and medium-sized businesses and employers to reclaim Statutory Sick Pay (SSP) paid for sickness absence due to COVID-19
  
  
• Business rates
  Find out about Expanded Retail Discount and Business Rates Nursery Discount
  
  
• Grants, funding and loans
  Small Business Grant Funding (SBGF) and Retail, Hospitality and Leisure Grant Fund (RHLGF)
  
  
• Coronavirus Business Interruption Loan Scheme
  Temporary scheme to support SMEs to access bank-lending and overdrafts.
  
  
• Time to Pay Service
  Businesses and self-employed people in financial distress, and with outstanding tax liabilities, may be eligible to receive support
  
  
• Businesses housing the homeless
  Guidance for hotels, hostels, and B&Bs providing rooms to support homeless people
  
  
• Rent support for businesses
  Commercial tenants who cannot pay their rent because of coronavirus will be protected from eviction
  
  
• Covid Corporate Financing Facility
  New lending facility for larger firms from The Bank of England 
  
  
• Local Business Support
  Organisations offering businesses support and advice   
  
  
• Additional guidance
  Useful government, local and business links
  
  
• Licensing and Environmental Health Business Guidance
  Closure regulations and guidance for food and licensed premises, including delivery information
  
  
• Financial support for fishing businesses
  Information about financial grants for commercial fishing
  
  
• Working safely during COVID-19
  Government published guidelines for safe working during the coronavirus pandemic

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