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3:37 PM May 24, 2021
Stalls on Angel Hill at a previous year’s Our Bury St Edmunds Whitsun Fayre
- Credit: Our Bury St Edmunds
Visitors to the Bury St Edmunds Whitsun Market over the bank holiday weekend can be reassured that strict measures will be in place to keep the event as Covid safe as possible.
Stalls will be further apart to ensure social distancing, sanitising stations will be available and reminders about the hands, face, space message will be prominent.
Craft, flower and food stalls will take centre stage at Angel Hill, where a one way system will be in place, and in the Cornhill and Buttermarket areas of the town, where some local businesses will also have stalls.
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He said the company had looked at a couple of options in the town, adding this site had a central location with access to parking.
The building is on a retail park, which is also home to TK Maxx (in the adjoining unit) and Halfords.
The planning statement said: The proposed use has a local catchment and is aimed at catering for the surrounding local area, with the majority of users of the facility constituting residents and employees from the surrounding neighbourhoods.
It also said The Gym have an exemplary safety record across all existing gyms in the UK . Therefore, the operation and management of the premises will ensure a safe environment without an unacceptable impact on local amenity, it said.
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The organisers of the Our Bury St Edmunds Whitsun Fayre have welcomed the Government’s announcement that the further lifting of Coronavirus restrictions will be going ahead from Monday – in time for the return of the event at the end of this month.
It means that more hospitality establishments will be able to open and serve visitors coming into town for the free to enter two day Fayre, which this year, for safety reasons, will be a market-style event similar to its early days when it was known as the Flower and Continental Market.
Plant stalls at a previous year’s Our Bury St Edmunds Whitsun Fayre. (picture credit: Our Bury St Edmunds)
Organisers of Our Bury St Edmunds Whitsun Fayre have welcomed the latest government announcement on lockdown easing as it will allow more people to enjoy the event.