Letters

Fortunately The Voice has informed residents about the 100 plus trains due to be diverted on Saturday. Unfortunately Network Rail has again, as with every train increase on the Spalding line last year, not informed residents next to the line. The increase due will close the level crossings for over five hours cutting one side of Spalding off from the ...

I read with interest the article published by Nigel Chapman on the Saturday train schedules. As a resident of Clumber Drive which is to the west of the Woolram Wygate crossing I do wonder how we are to move around on the days in question. To my reckoning, if we were to spread the timetable equally over 18 hours (say ...

The freight trains are a problem, but the larger problem is the poor traffic management in the town. I’m not a traffic expert but know when something is not working. For several months I have tried to convince Highways that our current traffic management for Spalding is not fit for purpose. I have tried to seek a solution as Chairman ...

What planet is the Town Centre Manager on? Is he going to provide residents with flying bicycles? To the best of my knowledge cyclists have to wait in the same queue as cars when level crossings are closed. With regard to the length of time the crossings are closed the automatic gates do not seem to be any quicker than ...

I’ve just read your article on the train diversions through Spalding causing “horrendous tailbacks”. What a lot of fuss about nothing. These diversions happen on only a handful of days in the year. The total number of ‘paths’ translates to an additional four trains an hour at the very most – and, as your article hints, not all of the ...

One hundred trains passing through Spalding is a joke – it’s bad just waiting for one. The town will be closed to traffic coming in from Winsover Road and Park Road because the crossing will be closed for most of the day B Lawson via email

After reading Rachel Mayfield’s report in The Voice (February 5), I have to say that I am so pleased that the Spalding Chamber of Commerce and Spalding Town Centre Management Board have decided to run a competition to find the best design for a new logo for Spalding. I must say that the entrants so far are of a very ...

In response to the letters over the last few weeks about candidates in the local elections, I would like to make the position with regard to Conservative Party councillors and candidates clear. We do have the position of the group whip. This job isn’t to deal with votes because, with the exception of manifesto commitments, all votes in our group ...

We were filled with dismay after reading the article in the Voice regarding the 100+ additional trains passing through Spalding on the five Saturdays commencing February 28. Since the beginning of the year we are experiencing considerable noise and vibration from the additional freight services using the line on a regular basis both day and night (the night services causing ...

I’m just replying to comments made by Dennis Hannant, that these extra trains won’t have much of an impact. I own a business down Winsover Road and have to come and go all day. The road is a nightmare and don’t even start me on the traffic lights along here not being in sync with each other, meaning pulling out of ...

When I read what Mr Hannant had to say (100 Saturday trains scheduled to pass through district, February 12) I just had to speak out. How can the town centre manager not agree with this? Ok, let’s put it into perspective. If Spalding receives 100 trains on a Saturday that could potentially equate to one every 15 minutes. Hold on, ...

May I, through your paper, reach the residents in the Bourne Road area to assure them that all licensing by South Holland District Council is taken very seriously and that there is a procedure to ask for a review of any licence premises that are in breach of the conditions. There is also an opportunity to appeal within 21 days ...

I would like to reply to several of your letters, issued dated January 29. I’ve never done this before, but some of the letters infuriated me. First and foremost – Spalding needs a better bus service: You have been unemployed for nearly two years and had the chance of a weekend job in Peterborough, then you complain about the lack ...

I read the response from Jane Frapwell, on behalf of Vodafone, with great interest. I have been a Vodafone customer for many years and during the past ten I have always encountered serious service difficulties while visiting family members who reside in Weston Hills. To describe the cause of the problem as recent service issues caused by a local mast ...

Interesting reading regarding Vodafone signal in this area. I live in Woodfield Close, Spalding, and never get a signal unless I walk all over the bungalow holding my phone at all windows before I am unable to send messages – gets very annoying. Pamela Ivatt Spalding

I fully sympathise with your correspondent bemoaning the difficulties of getting to work by bus, and wish I knew the answer. I also agree that an hourly service to Peterborough with curtailed services at weekends is seriously insufficient. I serve as a district councillor and regularly use the bus services and am very grateful for my bus pass (as are ...

I would like to totally agree with what your reader Chris Harwin said about the off-licence at 2 Bourne Road. As one of the local councillors for the Bourne Road area, on behalf of many residents who raised their concerns, I lodged an objection to the proposals and attended the Licensing Panel meeting on January 20, 2015. I am not ...

Question: What do Nigel ‘I spend my taxpayer-funded MEP general allowance of £3,580 a month “as I see fit” without having to provide receipts’ Farage, Neil ‘brown-envelope bungs’ Hamilton, jailbird Lord Brocket, ladies’ man Roger Bird and our own ‘dodgy’ Dave Parsons have in common? Answer: UKIP! According to the Hinckley Times (October 8, 2014), “Disgraced former Leicestershire County Council ...

I would like to acknowledge the support Home-Start South Holland has received during 2015 from the community. As a family support organisation that is reliant upon volunteers, I would like to thank our volunteers who offer direct support to local families and our trustees and advisors who work tirelessly behind the scenes. It is so reassuring that there is so ...

I was only thinking the other day, what Spalding really lacks for and desperately needs is another off-licence. I mean, in some parts of town you have to walk up to 50 yards to find an opportunity to buy alcohol. So how are those wonderfully colourful street drinkers to keep themselves adequately supplied in such an arid environment. That’s all ...