Local Restrictions Support Grant (LRSG)

At the start of the second national lockdown ( Thursday 5th November 2020) local business who have been ordered to close for four weeks may be eligible for a Government grant of up to £3,000.

The Local Restrictions Support Grants (LRSG ) which helped businesses ordered to close in local tier 3 lockdowns, is now available for business required to close in national measures.

Please note - The application below is only for those business that have liability for business rates. You will need to quote your 9 digit business rates account number that begins with 1.

We will be providing information on the discretionary scheme as soon as possible. 

A business may be eligible if it :

  • Occupies a property and has liability for business rates
  • Has been required to close from 5th November 2020, following the second national lockdown and was trading up to this date. 
  • Has been unable to provide its usual in-person customer service from its premises.

Businesses will not be eligible if

  • It has been able to continue to operate during the period of restrictions because it does not depend on providing direct in-person services from the premises
  • It has chosen to close but it not required to do so as part of the national/local restrictions
  • Has reached the state aid limits. (The national business support grant counts towards state aid.) If you have reached the limit , you may still be eligible for funding under the Covid-19 Temporary Framework rules where the limit is €800,000
  • Businesses that were in administration are insolvent or where a striking off notice has been made at the date of local lockdown.

  • For properties with a rateable value of £15,000 or under, the grant is £1,334 per  28 day qualifying restriction period
  • For properties with a rateable value over £15,000  and less than £51,000 the grant is £2,000 per 28 day qualifying restriction period
  • For properties with a rateable value of £51,000 or over  grant will be £3,000 per 28 day qualifying restriction period

Please note due to the checks we need to carry out there may be a short delay in issuing payments to eligible businesses.

In addition, further money will be given to Local Authorities, to enable them to support businesses more broadly. These grants are not available yet, but will be backdated to 5th November when the national lockdown began. Please check our website regularly for more information on how to apply for these grants.

 

Red asterisk denotes a required answer.

Local Restrictions Support Grant application form

All fields marked with an asterisk must be completed.

The information you supply will only be used to process your grant. Information will be passed to third parties where they are providing a service on behalf of East Herts Council or if we are required to do so by law.

About the business

If not a limited company please provide business trading as a name
As registered with HMRC. If you are not registered for VAT please state "Not registered"
As registered with Companies House

Business address

One file only.
15 MB limit.
Allowed types: gif jpg png bmp eps tif pict psd txt rtf html odf pdf doc docx ppt pptx xls xlsx xml avi mov mp3 ogg wav bz2 dmg gz jar rar sit svg tar zip.
30 MB limit per form.
Please state nature of business such as nail bar, hairdresser
What was the effect of restriction on your business?

Business Bank Account details

One file only.
15 MB limit.
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30 MB limit per form.

About you

Title
Please note the person completing must be the owner, director, business partner
For example passport or driving licence
One file only.
15 MB limit.
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30 MB limit per form.

Confirmation and Declaration

I confirm that the business was trading from the premises referred to in the application as at the date just before the local restrictions came into force and that the information I have provided is correct.
Under EU state aid rules a business may only receive a maximum of €800,000 euros of aid over a 3 years period. It is the business’s responsibility to ensure it does not exceed these limits.

More information on State Aid is available on the GOV.UK website.
The grant is for the ratepayer only and may be liable for recovery if the recipient was not the ratepayer on the eligible day. Any business caught falsifying their records to gain grant money will face prosecution and any funding issued will be subject to claw back.
We will collect and use the information you supply in this form for the purposes of processing your application. We will not share this information with anyone else unless the law allows us to do so. Further information in respect of how we handle your personal information is available on the East Herts District Council Data Protection page (this link opens in a new window).

Please confirm you have read the above privacy notice

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