Letters

Regarding your page 6 report in the Spalding & South Holland Voice, Thursday, March 21, and the announcement of the Springfields Outlet expansion plans for the centre. Firstly, I would welcome what the expansion would bring to the area along with more jobs for local people that would improve the local economy. I also note the improvements have already been ...

George Scott is completely wrong when he says that Werrington junction at Peterborough is being altered so more freight trains can be rerouted via Spalding. Construction of the flyunder is to avoid the use of East Coast Main Line tracks between Peterborough station and the three or so miles to Werrington junction; at the moment all Spalding trains have to ...

Much is being made of the new Western Bypass but it seems that (perhaps intentionally) little attempt is being made to talk to the people who are going to be most affected. The Bourne Road fiasco comes to mind. My concern is at the other end. At the junction of Blue Gowt Road and Blue Gowt Lane is the footpath ...

I would like to comment on the Community Speed Watch (CSW) initiative. Whilst I applaud Jan Whitbourn, the co-ordinator, for her efforts to reduce the horrific incidence of speeding through villages in our area I would like to again express my doubts about this scheme. As I have stated in previous correspondence, the fact that those who receive a warning ...

Phillip James (VMail, March 21) proposes ignoring Alan Meekings’s ‘ranting’. But far from just ranting, Mr Meekings has brought out numerous pertinent facts that deserve notice in the continuing debate over Brexit. It would be good if facts, rather than assertions and slogans, were made central. Let me try a couple. It is often said or implied by ‘leavers’, that ...

I was pleased to see the article about the waste of council money in the 21 March issue of the Voice. We seem to hear frequently in the local media from Conservative portfolio holders about what a good job they are doing and to be fair, quite often they are. It’s perfectly reasonable that they are given these opportunities to ...

An open letter to Sir John Hayes: I understand that there are plans to close Blue Gowt Lane in Pinchbeck to make way for the new inner relief road, and I am appalled that this decision seems to have been made “on the quiet” rather like the charade of the Bourne Road crossing point, and no public larger public consultation ...

I am teaming up with my colleague Gary Taylor to invite you to join our Community Speed Watch initiative and come to the next training session on Monday, March 25 at The Castle Sports Complex, 6pm. Like you, I am increasingly concerned about the number of speed related incidents in South Holland and want to help to do something about ...

A Better Tomorrow, there is a way to end austerity locally and even raise the quality of public services. No, it is not a magic wand, the Government has made £6bn available for Green Energy projects, we need to build a tidal barrage across the Wash incorporating turbines for electricity generation. This would produce cheap green power for us and ...

It was on the early evening news Tuesday night that Spalding was one of two towns to vote to stay in the EU and as a local we know the other town is Boston I don’t agree with that as every working man I have spoken to around here wants out as do I. I think this is misleading as ...

An open letter to John Hayes: How could you betray your supporters and voters by going against everything you said you believed in and vote for that pathetic surrender deal by Teresa May? You sir are a disgrace and should stand down immediately. You have lost the support of the biggest Brexit voting county in Britain. The people will speak ...

The recent coroner’s inquest must have been another sad day for the family of the motorcyclist who lost his life last year on the notorious A16 road junction at Crowland. Our condolences go to that family and all of the others who have lost loved ones in a similar circumstance. Sadly, local opinion was also vindicated by the coroner coming ...

I was pleased to see that Sir John Hayes MP has added his voice to the discussion regarding the threat to people’s homes on Bourne Road, and the appalling way the residents have been treated. It was also great to hear that he took time out of his busy schedule to meet with the people affected. It has been horrifying ...

The leisure users of Spalding Castle Pool can only hope that the much publicised new service provider Parkwood delivers quickly on their promise to improve facilities. The old SHDC excuse: ‘we have had issues with 1-Life’ will not cut it anymore. On recent visits only two lanes have been available for swimming (due to classes being moved into the main ...

Good try Mr Mitchell (The Voice, Feb 28) in following the well tried Brexiteer path of ignoring any debate based upon facts and evidence and deciding ‘not to read’ any further part of my piece of Feb 21, you ‘appear’, (note the word), to resemble the ‘fingers in the ears/closed eyes whilst uttering, can’t hear/can’t see you’ brigade. That is ...

I cannot understand the need for Alan Meekings’s continued campaign to fight the referendum issues ad nauseum. His fellow Remain favouring majority MPs in the house are making a very good show of undermining the referendum result, whilst claiming the contrary. His rants influence nothing at all and it is time he was simply ignored and let the real power ...

For most people, crossing the A17 to go into Holbeach is quite difficult without a suitable crossing. We are at the mercy of a small number of thinking drivers. I am a fairly able bodied woman in my late 70s and I cross to Boston Road South regularly. Recently I spoke to a gentleman who was walking with a mobility ...

An open letter to Sir John Hayes: We wish to record how appalled we are about plans for the proposed Spalding Western Relief Road. How can it be deemed to be a relief road when the middle section may, or may not, be constructed sometime/never. Why do the councillors and planners regard the local residents as gullible idiots? We are ...

I had to read the article about crisp packet recycling twice in the February 28 issue of the Voice as I could not quite believe what I was reading. How long has it been since we needed special places to dispose of crisp packets, especially Walkers, it would appear? I have always put mine in the recycling back at home. ...

Boundary changes The review of boundaries just agreed by South Holland District Council have little to do with democracy or cost saving. Population spread in our district wards is well within the national recommendations. No government or council ever initiates such a review unless they believe it will benefit their party. The aim here looks more like an attempt to ...