Next week’s partial reopening of hospitality represents a huge moment in the sector’s recovery, nowhere more so than in Liverpool.
From Monday, pubs and restaurants will be able to serve groups of up to six outdoors, with hairdressers and non-essential retail also allowed to reopen.
With an economy dependent upon this type of trade, businesses, residents and visitors to Liverpool are now being urged to do their bit – and have been told “we’ll only make it out if we work together”.
Below, BusinessLive hears from the city’s economic chiefs ahead of the big day – and speaks to the combined authority’s Metro Mayor Steve Rotheram about the latest on the region’s economic recovery.
Bill Addy, chief executive of the Liverpool BID Company, said the region should view Monday as “starting a six week countdown” to the next step on May 17, when the city centre can “open more fully”.
He said: “Everyone has worked so hard to keep to the guidance and this next step sees us being able to do more but for business, visitors and people just out and…
