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Long awaited work to reconstruct the A151 at Pode Hole is to take place next month. Lincolnshire County Council has announced the works will include night-time closures (6pm and 6am) for five evenings starting on Monday November 8, along with daytime closures for the final surfacing on two Sundays November 14 and 21 (6am to 6pm), subject to weather. Temporary ...

A Sutton Bridge shop is facing a review of its licence after a man whose work visa had expired seven years ago served 15-year-olds alcohol. City Stores in Bridge Road, Sutton Bridge will go before South Holland District Council’s Licencing Panel next week following a sting operation by Lincolnshire Police. The licence for the shop has been held by Arumugam ...

A Fleet Hargate man who has supported veterans in the area branded Holbeach Parish Council a disgrace for cancelling part of the town’s Remembrance Sunday event. For the last five years Harold Payne has toured war memorials in South Holland villages using military vehicles, timing it so he got to Holbeach at the same time as the parade. The parish ...

A development of 55 affordable homes in Fleet has been given full planning permission despite objections from nearby residents. The site to be accessed off Fleet Road already had outline permission for the homes, though only 33 per cent were due to be affordable. Now developer Kaplan Property Group has been given permission for 33 homes to be rented and ...

The roll out of brown bins for those in Spalding who wish to take part in the Garden Waste Scheme is continuing, a meeting has heard, though there continues to be a waiting list. South Holland District Council has had to slow deliveries of the bins in recent weeks due to pressures over labour shortages, a meeting of the Spalding ...

Spalding Town Forum heard that some members had confronted drivers through Hall Place which is meant to be banned from 10am to 4pm. Enforcement is meant to be carried out by Lincolnshire Police, but though the meeting was told there had been some instances of warnings being given to drivers, action was only being taken on certain days when officers ...

Long awaited proposals to increase Pinchbeck Cemetery and renovate the village’s war memorial are now progressing thanks to the parish council. With just three to five years left at the current Cherryholt Lane Cemetery, preparatory work on a new seven acre site at Blue Gowt Lane is now due to start later this year. Final plans for the site will ...

Bringing birds of prey into Spalding in an attempt to lessen the amount of pigeon poo on the streets has been mooted amid a proposal to bring outside contractors in to clean parts of the town centre due to staff shortages. Members of Spalding Town Forum last week expressed their concern at the cleanliness of the town, with bird excrement, ...

Main construction of the north section of Spalding’s relief road will now start during January 2022 despite Lincolnshire Council being yet to have agreed a price for the work with the contractor. Main work on the section from Spalding Road near Pinchbeck was due to start last Spring with preparation work having begun last February. But increased costs of a ...

Holbeach Parish Council has come under fire for cancelling this year’s Remembrance Day parade. There will still be a service on Remembrance Sunday, November 14, but the traditional parade for veterans is not going ahead. A council statement said the decision was taken ‘with regret,’ and plans were already being worked on to reinstate the parade next year. But the ...

Parking charges are returning to three Spalding car parks as a summer initiative comes to an end. In a bid to encourage shoppers to return to the high street, South Holland District Council axed charges for three months at three short-stay car parks. But normal service will resume on Friday (October 1) when charges will be reintroduced at Vine Street, ...

A South Holland pub hit by the ‘disastrous impact’ of COVID-19 is not opening its doors again. Plans have been submitted to demolish the Duke of York at Gosberton Risegate and build new homes on the site.The pub has been occupied since 1881, according to documents submitted to South Holland District Council, but it is no longer viable.“The current owner/licensee ...

Work is expected to start on replacing the damaged Bedford Bridge at Quadring Eaudyke.The northern side of the bridge partially collapsed in late 2019 and was temporarily repaired.A full replacement is scheduled to be installed with a wider bridge and concrete parapets.Work is due to start on Monday, October 4 and is expected to last nine weeks. Water Gate will ...

Just months after South Holland District Council broke up with its counterparts at Breckland, the authorities are set to share some officers again. In July the district council began a partnership with Boston Borough and East Lindsey District Councils after splitting with the Norfolk-based council it had shared services with for more than ten years. A part-time head of paid ...

One of Europe’s largest growers of coleslaw cabbage is planning a £20m eco-friendly plant in Spalding. Naylor Farms say it’s looking to create around 150 new jobs at the Rangell Gate site, if the planning application is approved. The site will be dedicated to a new type of plant-based extraction and the £20m investment and additional funding will help support ...

The leader of Lincolnshire County Council says an ombudsman has ‘bullied’ the authority into paying back people it overcharged for care. In July a report from the Ombudsman found the local authority was not adhering to the Care Act 2014 and people had suffered financially as a result. The monitor of local authority practices had been looking at another financial ...

A controversial planning application to transform a former clothing shop into an adult gaming centre has been refused by planners. Merkur Slots (UK) Ltd applied to South Holland District Council for permission for a change of use of the former Dorothy Perkins store in Hall Place, Spalding, to a 24-hour slot machine arcade.The application, which was submitted back in June, ...

A farm has been allowed to store more varied goods in a refrigerator despite over 50 objections from members of the public. JD Robinson and Sons of North Drove applied for change of use planning permission to turn one building from ‘agricultural coldstore to mixed agricultural coldstore and storage of third party agricultural products.’ Speaking on behalf of the company ...

A former owner’s application to turn a now reopened Surfleet pub into flats has been refused in a move welcomed after a similar plan was revealed for another establishment in the village.  As previously reported, The Riverside on Station Hotel has been taken over by Amar Odera and is back operating, but only after previous owner Mr Bond had submitted ...

An application to build 150 homes in Weston has been thrown out by planners following a meeting last nigtht. Persimmon Homes had last month been told to look again at the proposal by South Holland District Council Planning Committee who raised concerns over the number of private drives, bin collections and car parking arrangements on site. But after that deferral ...