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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 ...

A service company owned by the South and East Lincolnshire Councils Partnership is fit for purpose. Leader of South Holland council Nick Worth said a recent peer review which highlighted a number of issues, had been of benefit.Public Sector Partnership Services Ltd (PSPS) provides a range of services to the partnership, including human resources and finance.It was highlighted in the ...

Lincolnshire County Council is looking at whether to make a former railway line between Holbeach and Fleet an official footpath. Campaigners have for a long time attempted to get official status for the path between Dam Gate and Branches Lane.It would prevent landowners from blocking off the path in the future.Signs have previously been erected at both ends saying its ...

A man who carried out a stabbing during a 2017 Boxing day party in Spalding was spared jail after his case was delayed due to the case ‘being lost in the system’. Jaroslav Bogdevic, 37, was arrested in December 2017 after the victim suffered a stab wound to his thigh and was hit over the head with a wine bottle. ...

Councils in Lincolnshire have rejected a four-day working week after the Conservative government called for an end to a Liberal Democrat-run council trial recently. The Department for Levelling Up, Housing, and Communities instructed councils to halt any four-day working week trials immediately and cautioned authorities against planning such trials in the future.South Holland District Council and Lincolnshire County both say ...

A council-owned trading company providing financial services needs ‘urgent’ attention according to a review of activities. A Peer Review conducted by a group of council officers and members from other parts of the country, highlighted the issue with Public Sector Partnership Services Ltd (PSPSL).The company is owned by South Holland, Boston and East Lindsey councils and provides financial services, including ...

Voters in the Spalding St Paul’s ward will be electing a new district council member on Thursday, November 9. It follows South Holland Independent Bailey Boulding stepping down from the position in September.The Voice asked each of the five candidates to provide 100 words as to why voters should put the cross in the box next to their name. Vanessa ...

A gorilla was trying not to be missed in Holbeach High Street on Tuesday (October 31). It was in fact local resident Paul Poll in costume in an attempt to raise awareness of his complaint about money spent on repairs to the Cemetery Chapels in the town.He stood near Market Junction in the rain for two hours from 7.30am with ...

An application that could see a Spalding store turned into a 24-hour gym has been passed by planners. Switha Ltd has been told it can turn the Carpetright store on Westlode Street.It doesn’t need planning permission but did apply to South Holland District Council for a Lawful Use Certificate.Officers have now decided to approve the application.With the shop still open, ...

Anglian Water has paid Lincolnshire County Council more than £64,000 in fines between April and September and more than £200,000 for ‘missing’ applications says a county council report. The company has also reduced ‘overstay’ offences by 75 per cent but failed to apply for temporary traffic orders for 23 per cent of road closures.The report follows one in April which ...

Lincolnshire County Council faces significant challenges as it seeks to further reduce its carbon footprint, particularly in schools, a new report reveals. The authority’s Carbon Report for 2022-23, presented to the council’s Environment and Economy Scrutiny Committee on Tuesday, shows that schools are the leading gas consumers, greenhouse gas emitters, and oil consumers in the county compared to any other ...

The top person overseeing South Holland District Council looks set to get a wage increase – though the authority has no say in it. Since the formation of the South and East Lincolnshire Councils Partnership, the district council has shared a chief executive officer with Boston Borough and East Lindsey District Council.Like all shared roles in the partnership, South Holland ...

Delaying community investments will secure them for the town, Springfields has said after it applied to alter planning conditions for its expansion. When the Spalding shopping centre’s application for 18 new units on the site of the NFU building was passed in October 2020, a condition was imposed that work had to start by February 2024.Commencing the plans would also ...

The way South Holland is governed could change radically in the near future as devolution plays out across the county. A shift in power sharing between county and district is likely to be coming, and there will be differences in local government whatever the outcome, writes Local Democracy Reporter Daniel Jaines.For South Holland, East Lindsey and Boston it could even ...

Residents of a Pinchbeck road say they’re not happy after their street was resurfaced. Those that live on Mountbatten Avenue were initially pleased work was being done but have criticised the patchy finish.One resident, who did not wish to be named, said: “It looks awful.“It appears shoddily done and there’s been parts coming off and sticking to road users.”Lincolnshire County ...

The former leader of South Holland District Council has been shortlisted for a national award. Lord Gary Porter is up for the Lifetime Legend title at the Local Government Information Unit (LGIU) and County Councils and Local Authorities (CCLA) Awards.A spokesman for the awards said: “Lord Porter served as leader of South Holland District Council for two decades.“He is shortlisted ...

Cameras have been put up at a fly-tipping hot spot in Spalding. Residents of Ayscough Avenue have long been blighted with rubbish being left stacked at a corner.Some of them say people put their rubbish out early and that leads to others fly-tipping.District councillors Mark Le Sage and David Ashby have been campaigning for residents in the road.“We’ve had so ...

A councillor has resigned from Holbeach Parish Council over the behaviour of its members. Coun Mark Murfet said his ‘integrity was worth more to him more than accepting such behaviour’ after leaving the authority.Holbeach Parish Council was due to meet last week, but it had to be postponed due to a lack of numbers.It’s meant to have 18 members but ...

The owners of the old Johnson Hospital in Spalding have said they have no interest in selling after it was revealed they’re not paying business rates for the site, something branded ‘ridiculous and shameful’ by councillors. It means hundreds of thousands of pounds, potentially millions, worth of rates have not been collected for around 15 years from one of the ...

Waste collection crews and residents are still learning their new routes, a councillor has said. Last week South Holland District Council began new programmes of waste collections.The Voice has been contacted by several members of the public who hadn’t had their waste collected on the day they thought it would.But Coun Jack Tyrrell, the authority’s portfolio holder for environmental services ...