Council

The details of a new trial of alternate recycling waste collections for Pinchbeck, Surfleet and northern Spalding have been finalised. In total 2,600 homes are set to be sent a new purple sack to put paper and card waste in for the next year. It will be collected every other week alternating with the current recycling collections. The idea behind ...

The district council’s £250,000 investment in its Pride scheme has been described by a councillor as the authority “papering over the cracks” when it comes to curbing antisocial behaviour and problem buildings. At the South Holland District Council meeting on Wednesday, July 31, Long Sutton councillor Andrew Tennant suggested such large investments could be put into targeting well known “grot ...

A town’s crisp packet recycling scheme has earned enough money to buy the town new bike racks. Since Holbeach Parish Council set up as a community hub for saving landfill and recycling used crisp packets, the scheme has attracted a number of residents and businesses alike to save their packets and drop them in to the Parish Council offices at ...

Construction of the first building at Holbeach’s new Food Enterprise Zone (FEZ) is set to begin later this month. Wednesday (July 31) will see the start of ground works for the University of Lincoln’s agri-food research and development facility. A Lincolnshire County Council spokesman said The Centre of Excellence in Agri-food Technology will be the linchpin of the FEZ, delivering ...

Further details regarding a complaint made against a South Holland District Councillor have been published. Ahead of next week’s South Holland District Council meeting, a redacted report has been added to an agenda that was updated today (Thursday). Earlier this month, Coun Peter Coupland was found guilty of “bringing his office into disrepute” by an independent panel but was cleared ...

A South Holland district councillor has been found guilty of bringing his office “into disrepute” by an independent panel. A complaint about Coun Peter Coupland, Conservative member for Fleet, went before a Joint Standards Hearing Panel for Babergh and Mid Suffolk Council earlier this month. The report was published on the joint website of those councils on Tuesday. Much of ...

The towns and villages in South Holland that will take part in the year-long recycling scheme trial have been announced. Parts of Pinchbeck, Donington and Spalding will switch recycling to a two-week cycle, with paper and cardboard being collected one week and mixed recycling the next. The reports pack for the meeting of the South Holland District Council Cabinet details ...

A new bi-weekly collection of paper and card refuse is set to be trialled in South Holland for the first time. From September residents in selected areas will need to put paper and card into a blue sack which will be collected once every two weeks. Collections will alternate with the current green recycling bags which will be for all ...

Another ‘drive-thru’ coffee shop could be on the cards for the region after Costa Coffee has put in a planning application for a Spalding site. An application has recently been submitted for a drive-thru Costa shop at Long Sutton. Now RPA:Group has submitted plans for a Costa Coffee drive-thru with 21 car parking spaces off the A16 in Spalding, near ...

Around 3,000 people descended on Carter’s Park last weekend as Holbeach’s Food Festival returned bigger and stronger than ever. For the first time the event was held over two days and Sunday also incorporated a hugely popular South Lincolnshire Strongest competition that produced entrants from as far afield as Newcastle and Nottingham. That was alongside food merchants, a host of ...

A man who responded to a Facebook request for the disposal of household waste despite not having a licence was fined last month, after the items were found fly-tipped in Holbeach. Liam Scott was identified following investigations by South Holland District Council, and appeared before Boston Magistrates Court on June 24 for failing to comply with the duty of care ...

Three months of roadworks in Spalding town centre are set to begin next month as a half a million pound water main is installed from the Chatterton Tower. Residents in and around Pennygate and Monkshouse Lane have received leaflets outlining the works. As reported in The Voice in April, the substantial works are to increase the productivity of the Chatterton ...

The community is being asked to back a “phenomenal” proposed upgrade to the Johnson Hospital by completing a survey. As previously reported in The Voice, as part of the local NHS’s Healthy Conversation 2019, the hospital could be upgraded to a Major Treatment Centre providing care for all but the most serious cases. A recent engagement event in the town ...

More artwork, ‘Boris bikes’ and images of Spalding town centre are among the ideas being mooted to attract more visitors. More displays like the recently installed The Hiring, including the re-installation of the Johnson Fountain were among the ideas Spalding and District Civic Society’s David Jones told a meeting of the Spalding Town Forum last week. He also said that ...

A brand new public swimming pool facility for Spalding is being looked at as part of improvements in leisure facilities across the district, it’s been claimed. South Holland District Council is “looking at replacing” its facilities which includes the Castle Sports Complex and Peele Leisure Centre in Long Sutton. Coun Angela Newton asked the cabinet at its meeting on Tuesday ...

District councillors have been told they can keep the iPads previously provided to them by the council. Each councillor has been given an iPad Pro (pictured) and accessories at the cost of more than £1,000 each, totalling £41,000, minus tax and data contracts (a further £600 per month). Councillors who had previously been elected had iPads already provided by the ...

A woman is bidding for listed building status to be granted to a historic Spalding building subject to a planning appeal. The Spring Garden property, which was formerly a Christian Association and Literary Institute and social club for Geest employees, was most recently owned by The Fitness Company. A change of use application to turn it into flats from a ...

A former chief executive of Lincolnshire County Council picked up £292,263 for less than six months service, it’s been revealed. The authority announced last November that Keith Ireland was departing the role after being announced in it in May 2018. The figure of how much money he received is just short of £300,000 according to the BBC’s Local Democracy Reporting ...

Junction improvements, reduced speed limits, traffic calming, ‘Park and Walk’ sites, a community cycle hub and more benches are among the ideas to alleviate traffic issues in Holbeach in the next 17 years. The draft Holbeach Transport Strategy sets out how the town will deal with traffic, including that generated from an extra planned 2,000 homes and the Food Enterprise ...

The 37 district councillors elected this month have been provided top-spec iPad Pros – along with hundreds of pounds worth of accessories and data plans. South Holland District Council members chose to buy the highest-powered tablets at a cost of £863.16, along with Apple Smart Keyboard Folio flip-cases, costing an extra £160.94, and a second generation Apple Pencil for each ...