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The outdoor seated area at Lussmanns Harpenden.
- Credit: Lussmanns
Weeks after adapting to the demands of al fresco service, pubs and restaurants across the district are now preparing for their next challenge - welcoming customers back indoors from next week.
Although the unseasonably cold weather put something of a dampener on the long-awaited reopening of pub and restaurant gardens, customers wrapped up in jumpers and blankets to ensure they didn t miss out.
Spokeperson for the Save St Albans Pubs campaign, Sean Hughes, said: We would like to say thank you on behalf of Save St Albans Pubs for the continued support of residents and visitors in visiting their local pubs and helping us by sticking to the rules we have been given to enable us to stay open.
Sean said: Being without pubs for most of the past year I’m sure that we can all agree that we have missed our community spaces and we will continue to protect our local pubs. For almost five years the government has promised reforms to business rates and failed to deliver on these promises. This has cost hundreds of businesses to go under and pushed the price of a pint up, especially for independent pubs who cannot spread the cost over several sites, like larger pubs such as Wetherspoons. We are hopeful that the reform due in the autumn statement will support pubs, small businesses and the high street over large corporations such as Amazon who continue to fail with paying their fair share of tax.