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An end could be in sight for a long running planning dispute that halted building on a Moulton Chapel estate. Allison Homes has been granted permission to complete its 86 home development north of Roman Road. It had previously been served enforcement action after making the site higher than the surrounding area and contrary to the permitted plans. It appealed ...

A further 13 homes are to be built on the former Keston Nurseries in Pinchbeck next to a site where work on 100 homes has already begun. Outline permission for 13 dwellings off Mill Green Road was voted through by South Holland District Council on Wednesday night. The site is officially listed as open countryside, but also was previously granted ...

A developer has been told to meet some of its agreed contributions to the community for the 900 homes it’s building in Holbeach. Ashwood Homes had asked South Holland District Council if it could not build any affordable homes at its Holbeach Meadows site and go back on an agreed £1m to Lincolnshire County County’s Highways department which built the ...

A property developer given outline permission to build industrial units at the Lincolnshire Gateway on the outskirts of Spalding says it will bring ‘significant investment and job creation’ Last spring Alcan Properties bought the 70,000sqm which has been the subject of numerous previous planning approvals for employment land, one of which included a conference centre. It’s looking to build three ...

New funding of £20m over ten years for Spalding has been hailed as perfect timing for the town. It’s to be given on the proviso that a town board be set up to be led by local businesses.And with the Spalding Business Board having recently been set up, South Holland District Council leader Nick Worth says it’s perfect to take ...

A first step has been made into a possible bypass around Whaplode. Lincolnshire County Council has agreed to fund a feasibility study into its creation.The calls for it are being led by county councillor Peter Coupland who says over 14,000 vehicles and 1,000 HGVs are going through the centre of Whaplode every day on the A151.He says he’s calculated a ...

The leader of the district council has written to the owners of a Spalding pub asking them to carry out works or face legal action. Coun Nick Worth told South Holland District Council he’d personally written to the Samuel Smith brewery, which owns Ye Olde White Horse in Church Street.“I’ve written on behalf of the council to the Samuel Smith ...

Everyone on the waiting list for ‘brown bins’ will get one when this week’s roll out of new waste collection days has bedded down, a councillor has claimed. Coun Jack Tyrrell also told South Holland District Council the scheme will be expanded again.The meeting of the council was told that no new brown bins for garden waste collection had been ...

The district will not be having wheelie bins ‘in the immediate future’ the leader of South Holland District Council has said. As new routes for collecting waste were rolled out this week, the matter of whether it could happen was raised at the authority’s Full Council.Coun Nick Worth stated there were no plans for introducing wheelie bins while highlighting a ...

The election for the Spalding St Paul’s ward is set to take place on Thursday, November 9. Nominations to be a candidate are open from tomorrow (Friday) until 4pm on Friday, October 13.It follows South Holland Independents’ Bailey Boulding resigning from the council citing a family situation since his election in May.In his place they’ve announced that Vanessa Browning will ...

A councillor has urged the district council to take legal action against the county council over a proposed move to create a Greater Lincolnshire authority headed by an elected mayor. The details over a potential devolution deal which would lead to another layer of local government being created are still under wraps.District Council leader Nick Worth says even he’s been ...

South Holland District Council is one of 15 authorities that has agreed to be part of a new group aiming to pressure the government on the cost of dealing with drainage. All of the councils have drainage boards which they have to give some of their share of the council tax to.“It’s one of our biggest financial pressures,” Coun Nick ...

Those calling for a 50-metre pool as part of the renovation of the Castle Sports Complex have been told to ‘move away from the negativity’. Councillors James and Mark Le Sage have led the calls for the pool to be of that standard and have regularly brought it up at meetings of South Holland District Council.Spalding para-swimming champion Orlaigh Greer ...

A group is calling for the 30mph area around Deeping St Nicholas to be extended to Hop Pole. Catherine Waldon has led the calls for the measures in the village.And she recently met up with South Holland and the Deepings MP Sir John Hayes.He backed the campaigners.“Traffic tends to speed up travelling through Hop Pole,” he said. “We need more ...

South Holland District Council has seen a ‘surge’ of developers looking for it to buy properties from them as it agreed the purchase of 17 more as well as a grant to bring eight others up to standard. The authority is bringing funds from its Housing Revenue Account forward to buy the homes.It follows deputy chief executive Christine Marshall telling ...

The proposals of how Hall Place, Red Lion Street and the Riverside in Spalding could look have been released. South Holland District Council is spending £280,000 in an attempt to brighten up the three areas. A spokesman for the council, said: “Hall Place, the Riverside and Red Lion Street are the three key areas of the public realm in which ...

Holbeach’s Remembrance Parade will be held in the morning next month. Lincolnshire County Council had refused the parish council’s bid to move it to 11am.But they have now agreed to close roads for it on Sunday, November 13.It had previously been held in the afternoon so veterans could attend other services elsewhere including Spalding’s.But led by calls from parish councillor ...

Barriers look set to go up in Spalding town centre to stop vehicles entering Market Place every day from 10am to 4pm. That’s after 86.4 per cent of town residents surveyed said they wanted the current Traffic Regulation Order (TRO) to be maintained.The survey was carried out after being commissioned by the Spalding Town Forum in a bid to settle ...

It’s been claimed benches branded a ‘circle of death’ could be gone by April with a consultation on street scenery in three parts of Spalding due to launch. The meeting of Spalding Town Forum on Tuesday night was told that plans for Hall Place, Red Lion Street and the riverside would be revealed this week.It includes possible solutions for the ...

The leader of South Holland District Council says there will be an effect on services due to the ‘difficult decisions’ it will have to make on savings. The authority is facing a £353,000 overspend based on its performance from April to June.Coun Paul Redgate told a special meeting of its Cabinet that the reason behind it was homelessness costs, ‘some ...