Unrest from neighbouring residents of proposed Spalding business park

An indicative design of one of the business park buildings.

Several neighbouring residents are unhappy with the Lincs Gateway Business Park plan for Spalding in its current state.

They want the ‘noisy’ warehouse element to not be located near their properties, and they say a bridleway alongside the site cannot and should not be upgraded to a pedestrian and cyclist access.

Graham Brown has lived in Fen End Lane for more than 20 years and spoke at last week’s planning committee meeting on behalf of residents.

After the meeting, the 57-year-old managing director told The Voice: “We don’t object in principle to the plan but we want to protect our residential amenity.
“We don’t want 500 cyclists and walkers a day coming down Fen End Lane or using it as a rat run.
“There are two major things the applicant needs to address and then they won’t have any objections from us – they need to put a footpath in on Barrier Bank and move that warehouse.”

Mr Brown rounded on some planning councillors for not having a say on a major planning application for South Holland.
He said: “Coun Bryan Alcock was very good and very objective – I wish all the committee members were like him.
“About 25 per cent said something, the other 75 per cent sat there sucking their thumbs.”

One councillor not to contribute to the debate was Long Sutton ward member David Wilkinson, who was the only person against in the 11-1 vote.

He told The Voice afterwards: “I just don’t think it is in the best interests of Spalding.
“Everybody else supported it but I think moving things out of town will not help Spalding.
“I’m quite surprised that Spalding members didn’t mention that.”