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Financial support from the States is available for Vale businesses and self employed individuals affected by the coronavirus outbreak. This follows the setting up of a Guernsey Payroll Co-Sharing Scheme and a grant scheme for small traders, which were announced today.

As preparations for dealing with the spread of coronavirus are stepped up by government, social distancing is key to helping to reduce the spread of the disease. But what does that actually mean? Here's a guide for Vale residents.

As the coronavirus crisis develops it is clear that the parish meeting scheduled for 1 April cannot now go ahead, which potentially creates problems because ratepayers need to approve the parochial budget and fund raising for 2020.

A number of people have been asking what help there is available during the current virus crisis, especially for people self-isolating and so struggling to get basics or perhaps even just walk the dog.

Employment and Social Security is encouraging any Vale parishioner to get in touch if they need financial support as a result of the far reaching impacts of COVID-19.

Guernsey's developing response to the outbreak of Coronavirus may have an effect on the forthcoming Vale parish meeting, currently scheduled for 1 April at 7.30pm. Senior Constable Richard Leale has advised that it is currently going ahead but in the main douzaine hall to enable appropriate self-distancing.

Details of more than £560,000-worth expenditure that the Vale Douzaine needs to spend in 2020 have been published ahead of the forthcoming parish meeting.

Vale’s parish meeting will be held on 1 April this year, a week later than usual, after some of the financial information the Douzaine is required to scrutinise was delayed.

A further attempt to build at La Pointe, the area better known as the 'Triangle Field' opposite Alliance, has been rejected again by planners. 

Members of the Vale Douzaine have expressed "deep regret" that permission for 11 new homes on a site in Tertre Lane has been granted by planners when so many brownfield areas remain undeveloped.