We have submitted a £249,000 bid to the Department for Transport’s Emergency Active Travel Fund for a package of measures to support walking and cycling as part of our COVID-19 recovery plans.
If approved, the funding will be used to create a temporary, segregated cycling link through the city centre, from the railway station, through North Cross and Armada Way, to a new pop-up cycle parking facility outside the Guildhall.
The Council has taken delivery of 34,000 face masks from the Devon and Cornwall Chinese Association (DCCA).
The masks have been gifted to the Council, completely free of charge, so that they can be distributed to local organisations, voluntary groups and charities on the front line of the Coronavirus pandemic who may not have the funds for such a quantity of PPE.
Small businesses in Plymouth can apply for a new Government Discretionary Grant from Monday 1 June.
The scheme, administered by Plymouth City Council, will help small businesses with less than 50 employees that have not been eligible for other grant funding (with the exception of the furloughed Job Retention Scheme and the Self Employment Income Support Scheme) and who were trading on 11 March 2020.
Plymouth City Council leader Tudor Evans is calling for the Government to re-think its announcement of a 14 per cent cut to the city’s Covid-19 funding.
Plymouth’s latest allocation towards Covid-19 costs announced last night is 14 per cent less than its previous allocation, despite increasing demands to support some of the city’s most vulnerable residents at the same time as the council has lost many of its other sources of income.
Join people across Plymouth to celebrate VE Day 75 from the safety of your own home.
VE Day 75 takes place on Friday 8 May – which is the first May Bank Holiday this year - and marks 75 years since the end of World War II in Europe.
Shop local, support independent retailers and buy everything you need – from food and drink to gifts from the safety of your home.
A new online marketplace is making it easy to do just that. Shop 4 Plymouth showcases local traders that are open and following Government guidelines or which have adapted to offer a delivery service instead.
Hundreds of eligible businesses in Plymouth have not yet applied for grants to help them through the COVID-19 pandemic.
Plymouth City Council is actively looking for and contacting businesses that could benefit from the Small Business Grant Fund and the Retail, Hospitality and Leisure Grant Fund, which offer grants of up to £25,000.
In less than four weeks, the Council has approved almost 3,000 grant applications and paid out £32 million directly to businesses.
Council leader Tudor Evans has vowed to continue his fight for more support for the fishing industry brought to the brink of collapse by the COVID-19 lockdown.
While he welcomed last week’s announcement of £10 million for fishing and aquaculture businesses in England as ‘a step in the right direction’, he said much more needed to be done to keep the fishing fleet - and its supply chain - above water.
Councillor Evans said: “We’ve been lobbying hard to support the fishing industry so we do welcome this as a step in the right direction.
Plymouth City Council leader Tudor Evans is calling on the Prime Minister not to betray key workers in Plymouth by failing to honour his pledge to cover the council’s costs in responding to the coronavirus pandemic.
Councillor Evans has written to Boris Johnson demanding that the government does not betray hard working staff and vulnerable residents by failing to compensate the council for the significant costs and lost income due to COVID-19.
Please do not visit Plymouth or the wider South West region this Easter.
That’s message city tourism leaders are putting out to help ensure people follow the Government advice - stay home, save lives and protect the NHS.