Council

Over 420 businesses in South Holland have taken up a total of £3.7m as part of the latest round of government grants to help businesses impacted by COVID-19. It takes the total grants handed out in the district to £22m since March. The funding, which is distributed and organised locally by South Holland District Council, has been targeted at those ...

The leader of South Holland District Council has called on more funds to make Christmas in Spalding extra special next year, if possible while a proposed council tax increase for the town’s residents was given the green light. Lord Gary Porter has called on the council to dip into its reserves to fund a bigger celebration for the area if ...

The best way to clean Spalding’s War Memorial is being looked in to after concerns over its upkeep were raised at a meeting. At last week’s Spalding Town Forum meeting, Coun Rob Gibson asked about the condition of the original monument based in Ayscoughfee Gardens. Emily Spicer, South Holland District Council’s place manager, said: “We are aware that there does ...

A Womble who, with her friend, has spent hours trying to tidy up a fly-tipping hot spot just outside Spalding is calling for more to be done to combat the littering. Rachael Wright and her friend Jane Peacock say they’ve spent a total of six hours clearing up mess in the lay-by on South Drove. But every time they’ve done ...

Hidden cameras are among the measures being proposed to catch fly-tippers in South Holland. The district council is looking to erect them at local flytipping hot-spots as the number of incidents increase. In December alone the cost of cleaning up fly tips doubled to £6,000.A rise has been reported across Lincolnshire and beyond. In November the number of fly-tips reported ...

Proposals to site a huge, Gothic-style drinking fountain in Spalding Cemetery have not been universally welcomed. The fountain, gifted by the Spalding Water Works Company as a thank-you to benefactor Mary Ann Johnson, is currently in storage. It had been in the town’s Hall Place since 1874 after Miss Johnson gave £1,500 to pipe fresh water for residents. The sum ...

Councillors have called on more to be done on getting empty buildings such as the Bull and Monkie and former hospital sites in Spalding tidied up and back in use. A meeting of South Holland District Council’s Performance Monitoring Panel last week heard that the authority was planning a new policy on tidying up derelict sites. But some councillors expressed ...

Plans to redevelop an area of parkland have been put on ‘pause’ by South Holland District Council just two months after it was announced that planning permission would be sought early this year. The district council announced plans for the 23-acre Moulton Park last March which is set to include a children’s play area, a memorial garden and a spot ...

The Spalding Western Relief Road is the “only hope” of stopping future traffic congestion due to increased trains in the town, the leader of South Holland District Council has said. Lord Gary Porter said that a bridge over the railway at Park Road to alleviate issues when the level crossings are down had been looked into but wasn’t feasible. And ...

Spalding’s historic drinking fountain could be erected in the town’s cemetery as part of improvement works there, it’s been revealed. A working group has been formed to look at improvements to the Pinchbeck Road site. And placing the historic fountain that used to be in the town’s Market Place is among the considerations. It was introduced into Hall Place in ...

Alternative funding is being sought to keep plans to improve Holbeach town centre a possibility. And those behind the schemes are still hopeful they may get the government funding they missed out on first time around. Proposed improvements of Market Hill junction in the town and the creation of a new ‘public realm’ at the back of the recently renovated ...

An unusual Roman oven and Iron Age ornaments were among thousands of artefacts discovered in preparation work for the route of the Spalding Western Relief Road. Main construction work on the most northerly section of the project from Pinchbeck Road is due to start in the Spring with the archaeological study part of the preparation work. According to Ian Marshman, ...

A ten-year partnership between South Holland and Breckland district councils looks set to come to an end. A report to go before South Holland’s Cabinet on Tuesday outlines a preference for each council to establish new ‘local’ partnerships. The two councils formed a partnership in 2010 with several areas of shared working. Officers and staff also regularly travelled between Spalding ...

Holbeach residents will have the council tax share they pay to its parish council increased by 4.55 per cent in a bid to lock up some of the town’s open spaces at night. Councillors also voted to make savings and take £30,000 from its reserves to avoid a tax rise higher than the one passed which equates to £2.84 a ...

A traveller site for a family next to an existing one off the A16 in Spalding has been allowed to stay. A retrospective application for the site of three caravans and portable cabin ‘day room’ was approved at a meeting of South Holland District Council’s Planning Committee last week. Speaking on behalf of the applicant Robert Home said: “The proposal ...

A company building two new retail units on the A52 at Donington has been allowed to change conditions placed on the application just six weeks after they were granted permission. The application for a retail unit on the corner of the A52 Bicker Road and Church Street was back before South Holland District Council’s Planning Committee last week after being ...

South Holland District Council is cancelling a planned two per cent pay increase for its staff alongside the raising of council tax to offset an estimated £1.52m loss for the next financial year. A Special Cabinet meeting on Tuesday heard that £759,000 of saving measures had been identified but £761,000 more savings needed to be found. Not providing the pay ...

There’s been a call for councils to work together on funding from developers amid concerns proposed changes to the planning system will leave Lincolnshire with ‘much lower’ contributions. In South Holland, larger developments can only be given planning permission when an agreement between the developer and district council to mitigate negative impacts of developments is signed, known as a Section ...

Council Tax bills are set to rise this year as budgets are being set while the final cost of the pandemic to local authorities is unknown. South Holland District Council’s draft budget sets out a plan to add £4.95 a year to the annual band D bill. Lincolnshire County Council also looked at budgets this week and looked to add ...

Almost 60 new jobs could be created if permission is granted for a new care home in Holbeach. An application has been submitted to South Holland District Council for the purpose-built home on Daisy Road, on the Meadows at the edge of the village. A total of 66 beds will be available when building work is complete. “It is anticipated ...