List of areas by Tier

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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

What frustrates me is that my area is going to be tier 3.

We work from home, have no DCs at school and only mix with others when one of us does the fortnightly shop. Our risk is almost nill unless we catch it from our post which we try to quarantine anyway.

It’s so frustrating to have externally exposed restrictions when our personal risk is so low.

I know it’s selfish and not everyone can limit their outside contact like we have but it doesn’t stop it being frustrating.

I think that it has in some cases been too broad. Havering could have been in tier 3, parts of Lancashire and Kent in tier 2, and also the more rural parts of County Durham (unless it was to ensure Barnard Castle was in tier 3).

Well looks like the onslaught of very unwelcome summer and half term school holiday-makers didnt drive up the rates in Cornwall, after all!

As predicted....

@Bathroom12345

So what about going to a restaurant in T2 which is 2 miles from us?

Although it’s not suitable for everyone there will be people on the fringes who have been caught up in this. I heard someone from
Blackpool talking earlier about hospitality in the area.I feel desperately sorry for them.

Obviously not supposed to but there will definitely be people doing it. Our area is Tier 3 as expected, but we live on the very edge of the district, close to the county area in tier 2, and the pubs / restaurants that we always visit are in tier 2 areas . I would only go with DH at a quiet time if we do go, I was wondering if the track and trace app which you use to check in knows what you are doing and reports you to someone ?

And just to be clear DH and I WFH , for the last 6 weeks I've only left the house for daily walk, seen adult DC outdoors and DC occasional shopping so we would be very low risk as family .

Tier two here which I thought it would be. Previously we were tier one. 😕

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

Is this really true? From personal experiences of both the hospitals and NHS facilities in general in the North East are so much better with so much more capacity, less waiting times etc, than London (which in normal times are absolutely chaotic to put it lightly).

@coffeeforone

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

Is this really true? From personal experiences of both the hospitals and NHS facilities in general in the North East are so much better with so much more capacity, less waiting times etc, than London (which in normal times are absolutely chaotic to put it lightly).

Yes it is true. London has more hospital beds per head of population than anywhere else in the country.

Not only that but in a pandemic they benefit from the fact they are geographically closer. That means its much easier to divert emergencies to other hospitals if need be. If you compare with say Liverpool the problem is that if the city's two hospitals over flow then the next two covid back up hospitals are Knowsley and Warrington (Halton and St Helens have both been designated as covid free hospitals). Both have also been struggling which means you are looking at diversion times of up to an hour each way if you have a major incident declared because of geography and location of facilities.

I still think that some of the decisions could have gone below county and unitary authority level. The three London Boroughs that should be in tier 3 in my opinion are adjacent, as are the parts of Kent and Northumberland that should in my view be in tier 2 not 3.

There is a real possibility of people making longer journeys than they would otherwise make, to avoid tier 3 places. Also the more the reasons seem illogical, the more likely some people ignore the restrictions in their area. Someone will know if you have too many visitors, but not if you go shopping in a town not near where you live.

In London though people go here , there and everywhere helped by excellent transport links, so you really need to treat it as a whole.

Damien Green's comments on the lunchtime news about restrictions by borough make sense. Boris Johnson's response and suggesting you would end up with a patchwork quilt show how little he knows.

Oh for a vaguely competent government.