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Free parking for key workers amid coronavirus outbreak

News | Emily Gill - Local Democracy Reporting Service | Published: 10:45, Tuesday March 31st, 2020.
Twyn car park, Caerphilly town centre

Caerphilly County Borough Council is providing free car parking for key workers and essential travel during the coronavirus outbreak.

The council said those required to undertake essential travel or those that are key workers are able to use their car parks and do not need to pay and display.

Coronavirus in Gwent ‘following same pattern as Italy’

Monmouthshire council and Blaenau Gwent council have also said that their car parks are free to use for key workers.

The UK Government has advised everyone to stay at home. The only exceptions to this are essential travel, one form of exercise a day, to go shopping for essentials and travelling to and from work.


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