This is what Peterborough Telegraph readers are most looking forward to post-lockdown

The coronavirus crisis has changed all our lives, but many PT readers are looking ahead to life after lockdown.

We recently carried out a lockdown survey of our readers, asking them to answer 25 questions about the current situation.

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The results of the lockdown survey are in | jpimedia

This week we are running a number of stories looking at various aspects of the results that came out of the survey.

We have revealed how lockdown has affected those who took part in the survey and what their biggest concerns are.

Today we are focusing on what PT readers are most looking forward to post-lockdown, according to the results of the poll.

Those who took part in the survey were able to choose any number of the following options:

- attending sports events

- eating out and going to pubs

- going to the barber/hairdresser

- going for beauty treatments

- going to the cinema/theatre/live music etc

- going for days out at leisure attractions

- going on holidays/trips

- going shopping

- playing sport/going to the gym/exercise classes

- other

67.17% of PT readers said they were looking forward to going on holidays/trips, followed by eating out and going to pubs which 64.17% of readers opted for.

The third most popular option was going to the barber/hairdresser which 54.27% of people said they were looking forward to.

The least popular option was attending sports events with 17.84%.

Our survey also asked people to choose up to three areas of everyday life they were looking forward to from the following options:

- enjoying the outdoors again

- going back to their place of work

- seeing family

- socialising with friends

- their children going back to school again

The most popular options with our respondents were: Seeing family with 77.66%; socialising with friends with 60.87%, enjoying the outdoors with 40.78%, children going back to school with 18.14% and going back to place of work with 16.19%.

More results from our survey which saw around 800 completed surveys from PT readers and 23,000 completed nationally.

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