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Plans have been submitted to turn a Surfleet hotel into seven flats. The Riverside Hotel in Station Road is currently open as a hotel and serving drinks. But owner Nick Bond says he’s had interest from developers. “I’ve been trying to sell it for eight or nine months but I’ve had no interest as a pub or restaurant. “I’ve spoken ...

A bid to make a Greater Lincolnshire authority which would replace both Lincolnshire County Council and South Holland District Council is to be made. The county council has announced that together with North and North East Lincolnshire authorities, it will bid for local government reorganisation and is looking to create one council that serves the whole of Lincolnshire. Currently in ...

Bars, restaurants and cafes will be able to apply for a free pavement licence to enable customer social distancing. Lincolnshire County Council is working with the district councils to enable the licences to be issued in ten working days or less. The policy has also been extended to shop owners who want to put a stall on the street outside ...

A decision to no longer put up stalls for Spalding market traders has been sent back to South Holland District Council’s cabinet. A meeting of the Performance Monitoring Panel this week concluded with the decision going back for another look and a call for some ‘meaningful discussion’ with market traders. Coun Angela Newton said she had a lot of complaints ...

After reports of misuse of waste collection points, people who live on private drives could soon request bin lorries be allowed to collect from outside their homes. But the roads would have to meet specific guidelines and its owners enter a legal agreement with South Holland District Council. The authority says its waste collection vehicles have not collected from private ...

Councillors in Lincolnshire are calling for the government to do more to combat fly-tipping in the county amid claims some land owners are having to remove them from their land on a daily basis. A meeting of the Lincolnshire Waste Partnership last week heard that the county was seeing ‘the beginning of a really ugly trend” in waste disposal according ...

Creating a new town square and limiting traffic on Park Road are part of new plans to revitalise Holbeach town centre. South Holland District Council is set to bid for £4m of government cash as part of the Future High Street Fund. Among the plans are to create a new ‘public realm’ to the rear of the recently refurbished The ...

A meeting is to be held next week amid concerns over the future of Spalding market. Councillors Angela Newton, Manzur Hasan and Rob Gibson have ‘called-in’ South Holland District Council’s decisions relating to the re-opening of the markets after the COVID-19 outbreak. Market traders have expressed anger at several of the measures including the introduction of a book and pay ...

Images from South Holland District Council’s CCTV system contributed to 49 arrests being made in a year, though it failed to lead to a conviction after a man in his 70s was spat at. The system was used to support 65 packages of evidence between April 2019 and March this year. Operators were also able to alert police about an ...

The chair of the Lincolnshire Care Association has thanked the “amazing” staff at care providers in the county. Melanie Weatherley has written to Lincolnshire MPs to outline the tremendous efforts of care providers, Lincolnshire County Council and health partners in supporting vulnerable people through the pandemic. It follows the fall out after Prime Minister Boris Johnson criticised some care homes ...

Libraries in Long Sutton and Spalding are among those that will be reopening from July 13. The South Holland sites are two of 14 across Lincolnshire that will open in line with government guidance, and will have a number of safety measures in place, including entry on a one-in-one-out system, more frequent cleaning, stock quarantining and hand sanitising stations. A ...

A proposed trial to reduce accidents on Crowland’s Radar Junction has been thrown out by councillors. Instead, Lincolnshire County Council will look at altering the speed limit along that stretch of the A16, a meeting of its Planning and Regulation Committee has decided today (Monday, July 6). The authority had looked to spend £78,000 on implementing a barrier system for ...

You’ll have to pay to use South Holland District Council car parks from Monday (July 6) with the authority saying they will be enforced. Charges to park at the car parks in Spalding, Holbeach and Long Sutton were officially waived when the COVID-19 lockdown was brought in, though previous to that the parking hadn’t been enforced for a lengthy period. ...

The councillor overseeing the soon to be started Spalding Western Relief Road has said funding is “incredibly difficult” when questioned by The Voice about how confident he was that the middle sections would ever be built. Preparatory work on phase one of five, the most northerly section of the controversial project from Pinchbeck Road, will start on July 6. Lincolnshire ...

Long Sutton Market is to finally re-open on Friday (July 3). And it will be in the Market Place after objections were a plan to move it to a nearby car park. That’s held up its return, but a road closure order has now been finalised to allow the market to resume while also providing ample space for those attending ...

A Holbeach St Marks man who died just days after the passing of his wife of 51 years had asbestos poisoning, an inquest has revealed. That’s despite Peter James, of Crown Avenue, having no known history of working with the substance, an online hearing at Lincoln Coroner’s Court heard. He passed away on June 28, 2019, aged 84, just days ...

A bid that includes funding temporary measures to promote cycling and walking in Spalding and Holbeach town centres has been launched. Lincolnshire County Council, the authority responsible for highways in South Holland, has submitted plans to the Department for Transport for funding to make changes to town streets. What work is carried out will depend on how much the Department ...

Controversial plans for a gypsy/traveller site in Whaplode have been given the go-ahead. The application for the site for four pitches at Bleu Raye Farm on Millgate came before South Holland District Council’s Planning Committee this week after previously being deferred for more details. The application has proved controversial as a previous bid for one dwelling on the site was ...

A decision on what to do next with the A16 Radar Junction near Crowland is to be discussed at a meeting on Monday, July 6. Lincolnshire County Council’s Planning and Regulation Committee is to meet to rule on whether to trial a controversial barrier system for six months at the road’s junction with the B1040 or look at implementing a ...

Work on the first section of the Spalding Western Relief Road is due to start within weeks. Lincolnshire County Council says that preparatory work on the most northerly section of the controversial project will start on July 6. That’s when up to 16 weeks of archaeological investigations will begin and work on the removal of two Spalding Road in properties ...