Council

Your views are being sought on the state of Lincolnshire’s roads. It’s part of the County View panel launched earlier this year to gather residents’ views on Lincolnshire County Council services and help shape how those services are delivered. Anyone living in Greater Lincolnshire can join the panel. Members are invited to complete a short survey of just five questions, ...

A number of local libraries are to stay open during the latest ‘lockdown’ with new measures in place. Services at both Spalding and Long Sutton libraries will be available though run slightly deliberately, Lincolnshire County Council which runs them as said. And a number of Community Hub libraries ran by volunteers will also remain open with restrictions including Pinchbeck, Sutton ...

Donington’s High Street could be set for two big boosts with sale of The Red Cow and a new shop with Post Office announced for the village. The dilapidated 200-year-old former hotel has been an eye-sore for a number of years, but has now been purchased by API Limited which has recently completed refurbishments of The Chequers and The Bell, ...

A council that’s been subject to a number of complaints has adopted a new transparency code and complaints procedure as it looks to bounce back from internal conflict. There’s been 13 complaints made about Holbeach Parish Council and its councillors to the Standards Panel of South Holland District Council in recent months. To put that in context only five were ...

Spalding residents are being urged to get involved with a new animation film being created as a centrepiece for the town’s Christmas celebrations. South Holland District Council is teaming up with animation production team Different Light on creating a special version March of The Nutcracker. And it wants residents to get involved by sending in their own designs for the ...

A senior role at South Holland District Council has been given to the former head of an organisation which had a ‘significant bullying problem.’ Nathan Elvery was the chief executive of West Sussex County Council but left last November with a £265,000 pay out. A report for the Department for Education said the council had a bullying problem that was ...

Proposals have been submitted to build eight homes on the site of a former pub in West Pinchbeck. The former New Bridge Inn has been demolished and plans to redevelop the land have been sent to South Holland District Council. If approved, two blocks of three terraced homes and two detached houses will be built on the junction of Slipe ...

Market traders in South Holland will not have to pay any fees until April next year. In a surprise move, members of the district council’s cabinet voted unanimously to delay the reintroduction of charges. Tuesday’s meeting was due to discuss a range of options for scaling market stall charges but Coun Roger Gambba-Jones put forward a completely different option for ...

After a successful first event back in August, South Holland District Council and the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) are holding another Virtual Jobs Fair on Friday October 23 to help residents and businesses in the District take their next career steps. The first Jobs Fair took place on August 21, as a result of the cancellation of the ...

Lincolnshire could be set to miss targets set for recycling because of the current pandemic. All the county’s district authorities, including South Holland, backed a Joint Municipal Waste Management Strategy in January 2019. It outlined a way forward to meet government targets for recycling and created ten objectives with targets. But a report due to go before county council’s Environment ...

Work on trees in a Holbeach nature reserve is to be carried after around 30 graves were destroyed by one falling in a nearby cemetery. A meeting of Holbeach Parish Council last week heard that the authority would look to take urgent action at the Fishpond Lane open space as it was found work needed to be carried out on ...

The saga of South Holland market charges is back on the district council agenda at a meeting of the Cabinet next week. Members had decided in the height of the pandemic earlier this year to no longer have market stalls erected for traders in Spalding – a move that caused a backlash. Now there are recommendations to review the fees ...

A group that promotes cycling has backed controversial new bike racks that have appeared in Spalding and Holbeach The green, car shaped racks placed over car parking spaces have been called ‘monstrosities’ and “a dangerous eyesore wasting valuable space” by Voice readers. Lincolnshire County Council, which installed them as part of the government’s Active Travel fund, even said one in ...

Lincolnshire County Council has reminded residents that on Sunday the clocks will go back, temporarily affecting the timings of the county’s part-night streetlights. There are around 42,000 part-night streetlights across the county that are switched off between the hours of midnight and 6am. Coun Richard Davies, Executive Member for Highways, said: “Over the next few weeks you might notice that ...

A host of traffic measures to make Holbeach safer have been proposed by the parish council. And the parish councillor who is leading the way, Coun Michelle Manley, is also exploring the prospect of setting up a group of volunteers to monitor speed in the town. She has been researching traffic hot spots for the last few months and the ...

The brakes have been put on a major reorganisation of local government in Lincolnshire – with the councils told to concentrate on helping communities recover from the effects of coronavirus. District councils, including South Holland, welcomed the news that central government called a halt to the process of reorganising the entire structure. “This enables district councils to put our full ...

Infighting at Holbeach Parish Council has been likened to the Northern Ireland peace process in a fractious and, at times, bizarre meeting which was even interrupted by violin music over a claim of abusive behaviour. District councillor Nick Worth, who was among the public watching Monday night’s online meeting, described it as a ‘bonfire being lit” under the council. The ...

Residents are being urged to report all incidents of anti-social behaviour as it was revealed more people could be banned from Spalding town centre including some repeatedly caught drinking alcohol. Last month Matthew Bellerson was banned from Spalding for a host of such incidents, including pretending a footrest of a wheelchair was a gun. But last week’s meeting of the ...

A new bus service for Spalding connecting the town centre and the Johnson Hospital is “on the table for January”, a new town centre steering group has heard. The group of local community representatives and businesses held what has been hailed as a successful meeting recently. It follows on from a meeting of a number of parties interested in improving ...

Spalding’s South Holland Centre is to get a grant of nearly £180,000 from the government to keep it going. Arts Council England has announced it will offer the venue £170,860 of vital support through the DCMS Culture Recovery Fund scheme. The purpose of the fund is to help maintain England’s cultural ecology by supporting organisations of particular significance in their ...