Lincoln Cathedral Chapterhouse. | Photo: Steve Smailes for The Lincolnite
Lincoln Cathedral’s Chapter House, a leisure centre, and an indoor bowls club are among the venues chosen by pro-active councils as COVID-secure meeting places.
From May 7, councils across England will no longer be able to hold virtual meetings as the government ends the measures it put in place to stop the spread of the virus in the pandemic – including allowing authorities to hold meetings via video-conferencing programmes such as Zoom, Microsoft Teams or Skype.
Councils had hoped to overturn the decision, however, the High Court ruled in the favour of the Department for Housing, Communities and Local Government on Thursday that meetings must resume taking place “in person”.