Council

No to solar farms on top farmland

Lincolnshire County Council’s executive committee has decided that it will not support solar farms on the highest-grade farmland in our region. The committee reviewed its Energy Infrastructure Position on Tuesday, with Colin Davie, the Portfolio Holder for Energy and Environment, emphasising that Lincolnshire’s policy does not endorse solar farms on grade one, two, or 3A land, writes Local Democracy Reporter ...

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Busy month for enforcement

November proved a busy month for South Holland District Council’s Public Protection team, with 20 prosecutions for those who failed to pay FPNs (Fixed Penalty Notices) for littering offences and a further 109 FPNs were issued for offenders caught fly-tipping, spitting or littering in the district. Boston Magistrates Court issued the 20 offenders who hadn’t paid a fine of £220, ...

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Chappell Centre set for make over

Spalding’s Chappell Centre is to get a refurbishment. The Lincolnshire County Council owned building on Pinchbeck Road provides the base of a host of local services.Regular users include the Deaf Society, Police Cadets, Carers UK and Age UK.The county council’s executive member for adult care and public health, Wendy Bowkett made the announcement as part of an update on the ...

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Work starts on town toilets

Work has begun on the Sheep Market toilets in Spalding and its hoped it would be completed by May. Coun Henry Bingham, South Holland District Council’s portfolio holder for assets told last week’s Spalding Town Forum the authority was still liaising with contractors on the project but work has had to start to meet the deadline for the spending of ...

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Circle of seating will be replaced

Circular seating in Hall Place known as an epicentre of anti-social behaviour in Spalding is to be replaced. However the move has already been criticised amid claims it won’t solve the area’s problems.The issue was discussed extensively at last week’s meeting of the Spalding Town Forum where Shop Watch representative Stuart Brotherton said ‘95 per cent’ of people involved in ...

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Drivers pay £1.5m in parking fines

More than 37,000 parking notices have been issued in the county during the last financial year. Statistics going before county council members next week show a total of 37,445 penalty charge notices between April 2022 and March 2023.In total £1.5m was received, with costs running at £1,483,122 – leaving a £16,194 surplus.The top street for charges was Silver Street, Lincoln, ...

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No referendum on new mayor

A bid to hold a £1.3 million referendum on the Greater Lincolnshire devolution deal was rejected by county councillors, who voted to progress a deal for electing a mayor for the area. Instead, a public consultation will be held across the region, involving residents filling in a feedback form and submitting it.The new mayoral authority setup will bring more control ...

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Devolution splits county opinions

The announcement of plans for a devolved Lincolnshire has split local politicians. Council leaders at Lincolshire, North East and North Lincolnshire have welcomed the news.But independent members are less enthusiastic about a new layer of local government.South Holland leader Nick Worth said he was looking ‘optimistically’ at the news.“The views of South Holland as part of the Greater Lincolnshire authority ...

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More brown bins for garden waste

The long wait for garden waste bins in South Holland could soon be over. Some residents have been waiting for more than a year to join the brown bin scheme, but nothing is changing until January next year.The expansion of the collection scheme had been held off until the new general waste calendar changes were made.South Holland District Council made ...

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Views sought on tax support

Residents in South Holland are being asked to share their views on the council’s proposed Council Tax Support Scheme for next year.The scheme is a way of helping people on low or no income to pay their annual council tax bill. The overall cost of the scheme is around £4.3million with South Holland District Council supporting around 2,400 working age ...

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Former leader Lifetime Legend

The former leader of South Holland District Council has been awarded a Lifetime Legend Award at a national ceremony.Lord Gary Porter received the award from the Local Government Unit and CCLA’s annual Councillor awards in London last week.A spokesman for the awards said: “The judging panel noted that in his two decades as Leader of the council, his determination to ...

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Partnership’s new leisure board meets

A new board created ‘to lead cultural change’ has met for the first time.The South and East Lincolnshire Councils Partnership, which South Holland is a part of alongside East Lindsey and Boston councils has held the first meeting of a new, strategic eight member board, drawing on experience from a variety of sectors to lead cultural change.A spokesman said it ...

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Devolution deal and county CQC

A devolution deal for Lincolnshire was expected to be on the table from the Chancellor in his autumn statement this week. This means the county will have to elect a mayor to oversee a huge budget.Lincolnshire has been vying for a deal for several years, but missed out on the latest round of deals earlier this year.It also failed at ...

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Plans for SEND school in Whaplode passed despite objections

Plans to create a new school for students with additional needs have been approved, despite a letter against the idea from MP Sir John Hayes. An application to change use from residential dwelling to a school for students with special educational needs was approved this week.The school will be at Dorcette House, off Little Lane, Whaplode, and the site is ...

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Decision deferred on 37 homes

A plan to build 37 homes off Stockwell Gate in Whaplode has been deferred after councillors raised a host of questions about the application. Outline permission has already been granted for the proposal by Stinders Homes.The final reserved matters application came before South Holland District Council on Tuesday night.Councillors raised a host of concerns about the proposals.They included the lack ...

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House to be built on ‘grot spot’

A detached house is to be built on a Crowland grot spot after planners ‘made a mess’ of a previous application. The land on Broadway in Crowland had been designated as open space as part of a previous planning proposal.Tuesday night’s meeting of South Holland District Council heard that it had not been very well kept.A previous application for two ...

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Housing plan is ‘out of character’

Councillors need to ‘draw a line in the sand’ on the quality of housing, it’s been claimed, as an application for 48 homes in Long Sutton was refused. Members of the district council’s Planning Committee agreed with the recommendation of its officers, and rejected the 48 homes for land off Lime Walk.The proposal was a re-submission of the idea after ...

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Meeting on how to spend £32k

People in Long Sutton are to be asked what the parish council should do with £32,000 refunded after a development failed to go ahead. The authority has the money after originally selling land at Winfrey Park to Korvin Developments for a proposed development.But the company has since become defunct and as a condition of the original sale, the land has ...

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Conservatives regain seat after dramatic tie

Glynis Scalese has won back the Spalding St Paul’s seat on South Holland District Council for the Conservatives in the tightest race possible. Both she and Vanessa Browning, standing for the South Holland Independents, gained 155 votes in the by-election held on Thursday, November 9.After several re-counts, Returning Officer Christine Marshall put one vote from each candidate in a ballot ...

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‘Massive benefits’ for one council, leader says

Making South Holland District Council into one big council with Boston and East Lindsey would provide ‘massive benefits’, its leader Coun Nick Worth has said. He was asked if it was correct the South and East Lincolnshire Local Partnership was “going down the road of a unitary authority”, by Coun Allan Beal at the meeting of SHDC’s Cabinet on Tuesday ...

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