Council

The chairman of South Holland District Council reached new heights in his fundraising efforts. Coun Paul Redgate is looking to raise money for the charity MIND during his year in office and is looking to do at least one event a month to raise money and awareness for the organisation. The most recent was a skydive at Sibson Airfield done ...

A woman who has raised over £27,000 for charity by selling second hand goods from her Holbeach home has been told she can continue to do so. Ann Gregory will be able to sell from her Boston Road South property from 10am to 4pm three days a week (excluding bank holidays and Sundays) after South Holland District Council’s Planning Committee ...

The Johnson Drinking Fountain can be re-erected in Ayscoughfee gardens, councillors have ruled, but they also criticised the council for its lack of planning and consultation over its siting. South Holland District Council’s Planning Committee last night granted permission to return it to the hall where it sat from 1956 to 2018. It follows opposition led by the Spalding and ...

Long Sutton Parish Council says it could hold an event the same day as next year’s Spalding Flower Parade as it declined to participate in something it said ‘would only benefit the Spalding economy’. Like other parish councils in South Holland, it had been offered the opportunity to have a float at the event scheduled for Saturday, May 6. But ...

A retrospective planning application for three structures at a Holbeach Hurn recycling site was withdrawn before a decision could be made this week. Midwest Polychem has applied to Lincolnshre County Council for the structures, which already exist, but officers recommended the application be rejected by members of the committee. Before the planning and regulation meeting was due to be held ...

A developer has requested all of its contributions to the community from a Long Sutton site be removed amid a row with the parish council over removing hedges. Loosegate Developments, which has started preparation work as it looks to build 180 homes off Seagate Road, is meant to build 25 per cent as ‘affordable’ and provide around £80,000 for local ...

A man will appear in court tomorrow charged with attempted robber and possession of an intimidation firearm after an incident in Spalding town centre yesterday. Vaidotas Mecislauskas, aged 49, of Spalding Common is also charged with criminal damage after police were called to an incident at Nasza Biendronka store in Sheep Market, Spalding around 1.15pm yesterday (Thursday, September 29). A spokesman ...

Businesses in Pinchbeck’s Enterprise Way have been left dismayed at more delays to work surrounding the Spalding Western Relief Road. The road was initially only meant to close for six weeks in July and the closure of Spalding Road carried out after it was opened. Following delays the length of closure was then pushed back to October. Now Lincolnshire County ...

A new plea to central government for more funding for South Holland roads that deteriorated rapidly during this summer’s drought could be ‘investigated’. Lincolnshire County Council leader Coun Martin Hill could investigate that route when asked if he could reassure residents Fenland roads would be ‘made safe’. But he also told Tuesday’s meeting of the council it faces a shortfall ...

One of Lincolnshire County Council’s leading members has said she’ll visit Holbeach’s new museum if she can ‘find’ the town. Coun Lindsey Cawrey, the council’s executive for cultural services, was asked to visit the new pop-up museum Memory Lane by Coun Tracey Carter during Tuesday’s meeting of the council. The representative for Washingborough near Lincoln said she’d be ‘delighted’ but ...

A float for the people of Spalding at the town’s Flower Parade took a big step closer last week as funding was secured. Parish and town councils in South Holland will be allowed to enter one for next year’s event on Saturday, May 6. In the absence of such a council for the town the Spalding Town Forum is organising ...

Controversial plans to relocate a historic fountain to Spalding’s Ayscoughfee Gardens look set to be approved. South Holland District Council wants to re-erect the Johnson Fountain in the gardens despite calls for it to be put in the town centre. The fountain, which no longer works, was in the gardens but dismantled in 2018 to make room for the new ...

Failure to submit a correct flood risk assessment should see retrospective planning approval for a waste recycling site refused. Midwest Polychem applied to retain three structures already put up at its Holbeach Hurn site. A planning enforcement team saw the buildings during a monitoring site visit. The waste processing facility is approved, but it is in Flood Zone 3 so ...

Plans for a chicken farm in Donington are back before South Holland District Council next week. The application for six poultry houses and infrastructure at Gibbet Fen was approved earlier this month. But a report is due to go back to the council’s planning committee next week as the result of ‘additional information forthcoming.’ Each of the proposed chicken sheds ...

South Holland District Council made savings of £1.24m in the last financial year but further cuts are likely after it also had a £249,000 overspend on its budget. The deficit, which is against a budget of £13.1m, will be made up from the council tax reserve and is offset by a £125,000 underspend, a report to the council’s cabinet states. ...

A tender has gone out for an ‘enviro-crime’ team to tackle the likes of fly-tipping in the district. It was revealed in March that the South and East Lincolnshire Councils Partnership, of which South Holland District Council is a member, was hoping to roll out such a team before summer. South Holland made no prosecutions against fly-tippers in the 20/21 ...

A woman who has raised more than £26,000 for charity by selling items from her Holbeach home has been recommended to be given a ‘certificate of lawfulness’ to continue. Ann Gregory was left stunned when told she received a letter saying she needed planning permission to continue selling bric-a-brac with all proceeds going to Jerry Green Dog Rescue from her ...

A 20-year-old man charged following an alleged stabbing in Holbeach’s High Street has today (Tuesday) appeared at Lincoln Crown Court. Joshua Marshall, of High Street, Holbeach, was charged following an incident in the town centre during the early hours of Sunday August 28. A man, who was aged in his 20s, was taken to Boston Pilgrim Hospital with serious injuries ...

Details have been released on the overnight closure of Spalding Road in Pinchbeck as relief road works continue. Night-time closures will be in place from 7pm to 6am, weekday evenings only, starting on Monday October 17 for four weeks. Outside of the evening closures, two-way traffic management will be in place to allow Spalding Road to remain open. The work ...

A historic World War Two pillbox situated on a Spalding estate is set to get a new lease of life thanks to a history buff and local company. The historic relic on the corner of Buttercup Close and Lavender Way is thought to be one of only a handful of its kind in the UK. It’s been derelict for a ...