Submitted on Tuesday 31st March 2020
Rejected on Monday 18th May 2020
Current status: Rejected
Rejection code: already-happening (see below for details)
Allow garden centres to reopen under lockdown with social distancing measures.
In time for Easter, allow garden centres to reopen and sell their huge stock of plants. Visitors can queue for entry like they do for supermarkets to maintain social distancing.
2,000 garden centres and nurseries have been ordered to close.
The Horticultural Trades Association says millions of plants, shrubs and trees could be binned in the coming days and weeks.
This would bring ruin for UK growers.
Reopening would avoid this huge waste, bring joy to the 23 million gardeners, allow the country to bloom in these dark times and save the UK garden industry.
Garden centres should be an essential retail outlet.
BBC article: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-52098436
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The Government e-Petitions Team gave the following reason:
Since you started your petition the Government has added garden centres and plant nurseries to the list of businesses that are permitted to open: www.gov.uk/government/publications/further-businesses-and-premises-to-close/further-businesses-and-premises-to-close-guidance
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www.gov.uk/coronavirus
www.nhs.uk/conditions/coronavirus-covid-19/
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You may also be interested to know that because of the large number of petitions that have been started in relation to coronavirus, the Petitions Committee has been questioning the Government about its response to the coronavirus outbreak.
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