A new drive to keep customers and employees safe in Hull’s supermarkets will see Coronavirus safety checks carried out by the council’s Public Protection Team and Covid Marshals.
Officers will visit supermarkets and similar shops, and assess whether measures in place are adequate. Those who fail to meet the necessary safety standards will be told they must improve, and advice will be given.
Hull City Council has been awarded the Investors in the Environment Green certificate for the seventh year in a row.
An audit in December praised the local authority’s energy use during 2019-20 and its action on reducing its environmental impact between October 2019 and November 2020.
Residents in Hull are being reminded of how to protect themselves from one of nature’s biggest threats to the city.
At present, there is around 120,000 home in Hull and of these, 106,302 are at risk from flooding.
Hull City Council is bringing an enforcement action against bars, pubs, restaurants and takeaways that remain open after the 10pm curfew.
The government brought in strict rules last month announcing that hospitality businesses had to close at 10pm as part of plans to limit the spread of coronavirus. Takeaways can still deliver food until 5am, but they cannot have any customers on their premises.
Businesses in Hull are being urged to implement new measures to help stop and control the spread of coronavirus.
The government has launched the NHS’s Covid-19 contact-tracing app, which allows people to register and ‘check-in’ when they visit a business.
Hull City Council’s flagship Customer Service Centre on Alfred Gelder Street will see a meet and greet area created, alongside a number of new online stations where customers can access services, as well as new cash kiosks, a waiting area and private interview rooms.
The changes will also see the Citizens Advice Bureau move downstairs to allow easier access for all.
A winner has been chosen in an international flood risk design competition run by Hull City Council.
The prestigious RIBA (Royal Institute of British Architects) competition, called Living With Water, asked architects from across the globe to produce innovative and practical design solutions to the flood risks facing future development in Hull.
The former Riverside and Wyke areas will continue to be protected by a Public Spaces Protection Order (PSPO), following a decision record approving an extension to the order.
The PSPO was established to address alcohol influenced anti-social behaviour within these areas of the city and requires a review every three years. The order gives the council or police the power to request anyone within the area surrenders alcohol, should it be required.
A director of a second-hand car business who misled consumers over the cars they bought, including failing to tell buyers their vehicles had previously been written off, and has been sentenced at Hull Magistrates Court.
Todor Neychev, 37, of West Hull admitted three offences under the Consumer Protection from Unfair Trading Regulations and one under the Road Traffic Act between April and May 2017.
A rogue trader who tricked Hull residents into paying him for work he did not complete – and in some cases did not even start – has been ordered to stop and repay the consumers over £8,800.
Sean Ross, 35, of East Hull, who traded as Example Bathrooms, failed to comply with his obligations under the Consumer Rights Act 2015 and breached an undertaking to repay the consumers he had dealt with.
A former director of a company which tricked elderly Hull residents into buying double glazing they did not need has received a prison sentence of 12 months, suspended for two years, and total fine of £57,528.
Mohammed Usman, 36, of Highfield Lane, Keighley, who ran Eco Warm Home Improvements Ltd, based at Office 3, Burnett Street, Bradford, admitted negligence causing his company to commit offences under the Consumer Protection from Unfair Trading Regulations between May 2015 and March 2016.
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