{"id":18422,"date":"2020-03-18T20:10:01","date_gmt":"2020-03-18T19:10:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/?p=18422"},"modified":"2020-03-18T20:10:02","modified_gmt":"2020-03-18T19:10:02","slug":"covid-19-antrim-and-newtownabbey-borough-council-announces-closures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/2020\/03\/covid-19-antrim-and-newtownabbey-borough-council-announces-closures\/","title":{"rendered":"COVID-19 &#8211; Antrim and Newtownabbey Borough Council announces closures"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Antrim and Newtownabbey Borough Council will close all leisure, sports and cultural facilities to the public from close of business today (18 March) until further notice in response to COVID-19.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>All events, exhibitions\nand courses are also cancelled. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Antrim Civic Centre and\nMossley Mill remain open to the public as do all Community Centres and\nPavilions. However, all classes, courses and bookings are cancelled at these\nvenues.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The decision has been\nmade following the latest expert advice from the Government, Public Health\nAgency and Department for Health regarding increasing efforts to curb the\nspread of the virus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Statutory Services\nincluding Registration of Births, Deaths and Marriages, Environmental Health,\nPlanning, Building Control, Parks &amp; Cemeteries and Waste Collection\nServices will continue.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Council will monitor\nthis ongoing situation and will make changes as deemed necessary by the\nrelevant authorities to help with these measures.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Mayor of Antrim and Newtownabbey, Alderman John Smyth, said:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThis is a challenging\nand fast-moving state of affairs that requires careful decision making to\nensure the health, safety and well-being of our residents, colleagues and\nfamilies are protected at all times.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe public must heed\nthe advice of the experts and ensure they take all the essential measures to\nguard their safety and that of others, especially those more vulnerable during\nthese difficult times.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cBoth Civic Centres\nremain open, Council\u2019s statutory services will continue, our staff will be\nreporting for work and our parks and recycling centres remain open. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI would like to thank\nthe Council staff working to maintain essential services, and those at the\nfrontline of our Health Service or caring for others. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI would urge residents\nacross the Borough to remain calm, and to pull together so we can meet these\nchallenges as a united and resilient community.\u201d<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Antrim and Newtownabbey Borough Council will close all leisure, sports and cultural facilities to the public from close of business today (18 March) until further notice in response to COVID-19. All events, exhibitions and courses are also cancelled. Antrim Civic Centre and Mossley Mill remain open to the public as do all Community Centres and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/2020\/03\/covid-19-antrim-and-newtownabbey-borough-council-announces-closures\/\">Continued<\/a><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18422"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18422"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18422\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18423,"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18422\/revisions\/18423"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18422"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18422"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18422"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}