List of areas by Tier

[RedToothBrush]

For those of you struggling with the postcode look up:

Tier 1: Medium alert
South East
Isle of Wight
South West
Cornwall
Isles of Scilly
Tier 2: High alert
North West
Cumbria
Liverpool City Region
Warrington and Cheshire
Yorkshire
York
North Yorkshire
West Midlands
Worcestershire
Herefordshire
Shropshire and Telford & Wrekin
East Midlands
Rutland
Northamptonshire
East of England
Suffolk
Hertfordshire
Cambridgeshire, including Peterborough
Norfolk
Essex, Thurrock and Southend on Sea
Bedfordshire and Milton Keynes
London
all 32 boroughs plus the City of London
South East
East Sussex
West Sussex
Brighton and Hove
Surrey
Reading
Wokingham
Bracknell Forest
Windsor and Maidenhead
West Berkshire
Hampshire (except the Isle of Wight), Portsmouth and Southampton
Buckinghamshire
Oxfordshire
South West
South Somerset, Somerset West and Taunton, Mendip and Sedgemoor
Bath and North East Somerset
Dorset
Bournemouth
Christchurch
Poole
Gloucestershire
Wiltshire and Swindon
Devon
Tier 3: Very High alert
North East
Tees Valley Combined Authority:
Hartlepool
Middlesbrough
Stockton-on-Tees
Redcar and Cleveland
Darlington
North East Combined Authority:
Sunderland
South Tyneside
Gateshead
Newcastle upon Tyne
North Tyneside
County Durham
Northumberland
North West
Greater Manchester
Lancashire
Blackpool
Blackburn with Darwen
Yorkshire and The Humber
The Humber
West Yorkshire
South Yorkshire
West Midlands
Birmingham and Black Country
Staffordshire and Stoke-on-Trent
Warwickshire, Coventry and Solihull
East Midlands
Derby and Derbyshire
Nottingham and Nottinghamshire
Leicester and Leicestershire
Lincolnshire
South East
Slough (remainder of Berkshire is tier 2: High alert)
Kent and Medway
South West
Bristol
South Gloucestershire
North Somerset

Source
www.gov.uk/guidance/full-list-of-local-restriction-tiers-by-area

In my opinion the government saying the tiers are due to many reasons apart from cases is just a way of meaning the general public can't complain that their area has less cases than another area as the argument will always be... oh but the tier system is based on more than cases!

Why is south west on all three lists? That's a big area, some parts of which are in tiers 1, 2 and 3?

My questions is what if you work /go to school in place that falls in a different tier to the one you live in. Which rules do you follow?

The key difference is that London has far better hospital capacity than Northern areas, London has always had far better investment than the North.

Not going to dispute the bit about investment, but in the context of Covid it's not that we have better hospital capacity, we're just not filling the beds right now despite our 9m population. It's got nothing to do with how good or not our hospitals are (and there are amazing ones up north, like in Liverpool), people just aren't getting hospitalised in the same volume because we're largely sticking to the rules and that's played a big part in us being in tier 2 now.

But I'm going to bow out now, I don't want to cause a row. Posters may hate London and hate Londoners and think we're the root of all evil in the UK, but we're human too and we're struggling in this pandemic as well and have been since March when we got really clobbered hard. I haven't seen my parents since Sept nor hugged them since Feb.

I wish this nightmare is over soon for everyone.

No surprise that Greater Manchester continues in Tier 3, or that London's in Tier 2. Just to put it in perspective the GM rate is highest in Oldham and in the north-west quadrant generally as far as Wigan, lowest in Trafford (below the national average) and across the southern areas generally. According to the MEN, there are fewer people in ICU beds in GM than at the same time last year, with 35% of those beds occupied by covid patients - just under a third of the number that occupied ICU beds in April.. The local Nightingale hospital isn't being used to treat patients but has been downgraded to a rehab facility. Given that the Manchester economy's being decimated and that it's a major contributor to GDP nationally, you'd think Westminster would be targeting it, not Liverpool for rapid testing and getting us back to work- not least because we've had one of the longest and most stringent lockdowns in the country.

Here in SE London cases are dropping. Be interested to hear what other areas are doing.

We're Tier 2 with 60 per 100,000. Cornwall has 62 per 100,000 and the Isle of Wight has 70 per 100,000. We also have far more hospital beds than Cornwall and Isle of Wight and are no where near capacity with admissions dropping.
BBC website states that these areas have had no recorded case in the past week but last night reported that a factory in Cornwall has had 106 workers test positive.

@Dustballs

Sorry - but what actual difference is there between these new tier 2s and 3s?

And how are they going to be any different to the lockdown that we've just come out of?

I'm struggling to see what I should be getting excited or depressed about.

A huge difference for business owners! It’s not about who you can meet and where, it’s about the closure of all restaurants, cafes, pubs and entertainment venues at their busiest time of year after a shocking year of trading for them. The farm park my kids love is unlikely to be around next year, the cafe my two friends set up a year ago can’t repay its start up loans because it didn’t get to start up properly and is now forced to close again.

@RedToothBrush thanks for typing that all out!

Totally unsurprised to find my area in tier 3. Will tier 3 areas automatically get mass testing similar to that in Liverpool?

@LizzieSiddal yes I could drop the children at my parents to get a bit of rest-bite myself, and I have needed to do this once or twice so I could work from home getting my planning and marking done at a weekend ready for the week.

Autocorrect respite not rest-bite!

Not going to dispute the bit about investment, but in the context of Covid it's not that we have better hospital capacity, we're just not filling the beds right now despite our 9m population. It's got nothing to do with how good or not our hospitals are (and there are amazing ones up north, like in Liverpool), people just aren't getting hospitalised in the same volume because we're largely sticking to the rules and that's played a big part in us being in tier 2 now.

I don't think you can say London's lower rate of hospital admission is because it's residents are better at "sticking to the rules" than anywhere else, it's more likely due to having a lower concentration of older people, the age range statistically more likely to require hospitalisation.

Also - it was never about hospital performance, but capacity, and London has always had more money thrown at it than elsewhere, so of course there will be more capacity.

People 'in the Midlands and North' are following the rules too.

Doubt it. Still waiting for them to do it in Manchester which has practically been in some form of restrictions or lockdown since March.

East Sussex, tier 2. So, if you are a middle class numpty tory voting fuckwit you can go to a pub and have a meal.

I have complied up until now. I'm more likely to catch it from my yr11 teenage DS than I am having a drink in my local. If I catch it I will spread it to the vulnerable people I work with. But, I can stay home, and I can go to work, and then stay home some more, and then if I'm bored I can go to work.....jolly good.

I'm not in the mood to comply anymore.

Longwhiskers14 probably a wise decision. It's not about hating London or Londoners, but your comment that "people just aren't getting hospitalised in the same volume because we're largely sticking to the rules and that's played a big part in us being in tier 2 now" is disingenuous. We've endured some of the most stringent and lengthy lockdowns in the country even though we've stuck by the rules. And by 'we' I mean everyone I know and the people I see in n my area trying to carry on as best they can. The proof is in the fact that our local rate is below the national average and below most London Boroughs. If being put into a lesser lockdown was based solely on following the rules , we'd be winning. But we're not. Go figure

very surprised we are in T3 we were T1 before lockdown ridiculous..feeling very sorry for pub owning friends. Its suprising we are t3 as we are well below national averages bar two tiny areas where its higher so really not sure what is going on.

@Longwhiskers14
Lots of us in tier 3 are sticking to the rules as well. In fact we were all In lock down while London's numbers soared but ours were v low.
So it is not just Londoners who paid the price then. We were all In it together then ! Not now it seems.

Matt Hancock is my MP, West Suffolk has rates of 64 cases per 100K the whole of Suffolk is low except Ipswich. This looks like a classic case of doing the wrong thing because conspiracy nuts on forums and in the media might jump on it saying how convenient it is his constituency is let go. As a rural liver i still dont understand why the problems of the cities controlling covid are inflicted upon us putting us in the same boat following the same rules.

@clearasmuddypuddles I’m glad you can do that, it’s so important for parents to get support from somewhere.

So Bromley is both a London Borough and in Kent - what tier is that?!

@RB68

very surprised we are in T3 we were T1 before lockdown ridiculous..feeling very sorry for pub owning friends. Its suprising we are t3 as we are well below national averages bar two tiny areas where its higher so really not sure what is going on.

Our town was one area in Tier 1 surrounded by Tier 2/3 areas. I reckon we're now in Tier 3 because they can't be bothered to split out areas below county level.

OK Looks like we have been lumped with Solihull and Coventry which are much higher than us

For fuck's sake. We were tier 1 before lockdown, our infection rate has dropped steadily since and we're at under 70/100k. Yet we get lumped in with Coventry, Birmingham and Solihull despite being south of Stratford upon Avon. Wish I hadn't fucking bothered. Sooooo angry but will follow the rules.

Oh, but I'm sure the whole of Lodnon's infection rate must be lower than mine because lo and behold, they are in Tier 2. Fucking bastard government.

tier two as before

not sure why shops can open in tier 3 but resturants are closed-how this will be enforced is beyond me

@Titsywoo

So Bromley is both a London Borough and in Kent - what tier is that?!

classed as a london borough last time so should be tier 2