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A man’s bid to take on the premises licence of a Sutton Bridge shop where an illegal worker sold 15-year-olds alcohol has failed due to claimed connections with the previous owners. Ramesh Babu Mohan had applied to South Holland District Council’s Licensing Panel to take over the responsibility for City Stores in Bridge Road. In October the committee revoked the ...

Moulton residents are being asked for their views on the latest plans for a long-awaited play and picnic area for the village. South Holland District Council has ear-marked £88,000 towards the development in its budget for the 2022/23 financial year. The current plan is for Moulton Parish Council to lease an acre of Moulton Park, off Bell Lane. A parish ...

A part-retrospective application to create a site for traveller families in Gedney has been refused. Some work on a driveway for the site for five families and associated buildings off Blazegate has already been carried out, planning officers said, but they recommended the application be refused on grounds including that there’s already enough allocated places for traveller sites in the ...

What’s it’s claimed will be a ‘world first’ factory of its kind just off the A16 in Low Fulney has been given the thumbs up by planners. Naylor Farms is set to build World First Protein, a plant based protein extraction facility on agricultural land south of Low Road that’s outside the usual areas for permitted development. It aims to ...

Controversial plans for 81 new homes in Holbeach have been given the go-ahead after a debate over what developer contributions needed to be made. The application for the site east of Chaffinch Way by Ashwood Homes has received numerous objections with concerns raised including over the access to the homes and lack of facilities in the town amid increasing housing ...

More than a year after the Spalding Wombles starting clearing rubbish around the town and several thousand black bags later, there have been no prosecutions for fly tipping by the district council. While neighbouring Boston Borough Council has secured 25 prosecutions in six months, South Holland has zero in the last year. Despite ‘hundreds’ of reports of fly tipping around ...

A little over two years from leaving a council with a “significant bullying problem” a former boss is in his third role working with South Holland District Council. It first appointed Nathan Elvery as Head of Interim Paid Services in October 2020 officially to oversee its break up with Breckland Council. It followed him leaving as chief executive of West ...

Public consultation on climate change strategy for South Holland has been launched by the district council. Residents are invited to share views on plans to work towards the country’s net zero by 2050 target set by national government. Emissions in South Holland have dropped 25.8 per cent between 2005 and 2019, though that’s less than Boston (35.3 per cent) and ...

South Holland District Council is putting its share of the council tax up by 2.83 per cent – but says that will all go to the area’s drainage boards while it is still looking to save half a million pounds. The increase will amount to £4.95 a year for a Band D property but the authority’s portfolio holder for finance, ...

Work has officially begun on the first section of the Spalding Western Relief Road with an aimed completion date of Autumn 2023 having been revealed. What is intended to be the first of five sections to be accessed from a new five-way roundabout off Pinchbeck Road is being created in the north of the town. Lincolnshire County Council, which is ...

Creating a Business or new Community Improvement District is the latest idea being looked into to help town centres such as Spalding. As the ‘closing down sale’ signs went up on another shop in the town, M&Co in Bridge Street, South Holland District Council officers are looking into whether to create a new group town centre businesses can get involved ...

Plans for 81 new homes in Holbeach have been recommended for approval, providing around £450,000 is provided for infrastructure. The application for the site east of Chaffinch Way by Ashwood Homes has received numerous objections including from MP Sir John Hayes and Holbeach Parish Council Concerns included the access to the homes and lack of facilities in the town, but ...

Plans have been submitted for a zero-carbon home complete with insect hotel and bat boxes to be built on land in West Pinchbeck. The new property, on Glenside North, is a self-build and the design stems from the desire to have minimal impact and for the owners to become ‘more self-sufficient’ and grow food and flowers while generating their own ...

A man had to be rescued from the water by firefighters at an accident blackspot yesterday (Wednesday, December 29). Long Sutton fire crew attended the incident at around 8.15am after a car entered the river at Saturday Bridge off Ravens Bank in Holbeach St John. The driver of the car managed to get out of the vehicle before fire fighters ...

A legal street art wall for Spalding has taken a step closer after a committee to look into the idea was formed. Artists Karl Barfoot and Adam Sadd set up a petition asking for a legal place for their art in the town after being amazed at the reaction to displays they’d created around Spalding. Now South Holland District Council’s ...

The authority that oversees the majority of roads in Lincolnshire is urging you to send in your pictures and stories about their condition as part of its bid to get more funding for them from central government. Lincolnshire County Council has warned it won’t be able to afford the £12m it pooled from its reserves this financial year to replace ...

Long Sutton Market traders will have to pay more for a stall after a bid not to put prices up failed. Following a consultation this year, South Holland District Council says it’s bringing all of the market traders into the same price bracket of £7 for a stall after complaints Spalding traders were paying more to stand at its market. ...

Local councils are calling on central government to give Lincolnshire more funding. Lincolnshire County Council had its funding on roads cut by £12m last year and it’s calling for it back. The authority made up the loss from its own reserves, but says it won’t be doing so again. And it follows the South and East Lincolnshire Lincolnshire Partnership which ...

A £15m investment to create a new factory, the first of its kind, at the forefront of food technology is recommended for approval. The Naylor Farms development on land near Rangell Gate, Low Fulney, would see a facility to extract protein from plant sources.The technology would recover ingredients which can be further used within plant-based sectors including bakery, dietary supplements ...

A town could be set to net a new floodlit 3G football pitch. Holbeach United Community Sports Academy is looking to add the all-weather football pitch to its Penny Hill site. In documentation supplied with the planning application to South Holland District Council, the club says it will replace an existing grass pitch for its currently 18 affiliated teams to ...