Open all hours?

<span>For the time being, certain businesses and venues are required by law to stay closed to the public. These include:</span> <ul> <li>restaurants and cafes, other than for takeaway</li> <li>pubs, cinemas, theatres and nightclubs</li> <li>clothing and electronics stores; hair, beauty and nail salons; and outdoor and indoor markets (not selling food)</li> <li>libraries, community centres, and youth centres</li> <li>indoor and outdoor leisure facilities such as bowling alleys, gyms, arcades and soft play facilities</li> <li>some communal places within parks, such as playgrounds and outdoor gyms</li> <li>places of worship (except for funerals)</li> <li>hotels, hostels, bed and breakfasts, campsites, caravan parks, and boarding houses for commercial/leisure use, excluding use by those who live in them permanently, those who are unable to return home and critical workers where they need to for work</li> </ul> Food retailers and food markets, hardware stores, garden centres (from Wednesday 13 May) and certain other retailers can remain open. Other businesses can remain open and their employees can travel to work, where they cannot work from home. From Wednesday 13 May, the government will also allow outdoor sports facilities – such as tennis and basketball courts, golf courses and bowling greens – to open, but you should only use these alone, with members of your household, or with one other person from outside your household, while keeping two metres apart at all times. At Charton Baker, we will continue to work remotely until such a time that the Government advise otherwise. Watch this space for updates on how we intend to return to the office.