Letters

Wages are flatlining while bills skyrocket. This is a wages crisis and working people deserve better. Just this week, the Office for National Statistics confirmed that the real value of average wages (once inflation is taken into account) has fallen by almost four per cent since a year ago. It’s no wonder that we’re all feeling poorer, because we are ...

I wish to make it clear that I am writing this letter as a private individual and an elector of South Holland District Council and not on behalf of Long Sutton Parish Council. I was surprised to see in July 21, 2022 edition of the Voice that the Vice-Chairman of South Holland District Council has had the time to write ...

The ongoing and apparently never-ending sewage works on Boston Road, Holbeach, are a standing joke locally. I have just seen on Facebook that the total cost including all the failed remedial works prior to the current ones now total £2m. This together with information given to me by a worker (on site) that they had been told to reline the ...

I read with amazement what has happened to Ann Gregory. It seems strange that after three years of raising money for charity, now Ann needs planning permission. I’m also amazed the local councillors haven’t got involved to help after all this is their area. It might be time that our MP Sir John Hayes gets involved and finds out what ...

We’d like to clarify a statement in your page four story last week ‘Fountain Plan Back’. It stated the Spalding and District Civic Society ‘led the calls for the fountain to be in Hall Place’, but this is not correct. We are very much in favour of finding a place for the fountain in the town centre, but not in ...

The Conservative leadership election is now on its last leg. Given the party’s claim that it had a wealth of talent to choose from, it’s interesting to look at the candidates who got near the final stage. Penny Mordaunt, who in 2016 declared that in the EU we’d not be able to stop Turkey’s accession, thus facing a flood of ...

Many of us still miss Dr Nathu at Pennygate Surgery. I always found her very caring and staff helpful. I was very sad and disappointed when they moved the surgery to the hospital. I don’t think that was the right place. I am sure the staff did their best but I suspect it was underfunded and understaffed. We need something ...

I have been fund raising for three years, six days a week. Raising £15,000 last year because of it. Now I only open four days a week depending on hospital visits, weather and health. Now this complaint when we are not so busy? We do not understand what has changed? At this time I feel I need to get answers ...

On the subject of the UKSPF Stakeholder Consultation, and noting the recent letter from the clerk to the Long Sutton Parish Council contains information that may mislead the public, it would be remiss not to seek to correct that impression that the parish council only became of the consultation indirectly on June 22. As with all parish councils, the clerk ...

I have noticed we have yet another multi-coloured, plastic covered shop window on the Winsover Road. From the eight gates level crossing to the Sheep market we have, not one, not two but nine, make that ten if you include the multi purpose Post Office, of these kind of premises. I would like to ask SHDC what do they think ...

I am the husband of Ann Gregory, of Boston Road South, Holbeach, we have been married for 48 years. I would very much like to point out that she has worked tirelessly for three years raising very much- needed funds for our local Jerry Green dog rescue; £22,958.58 exactly. to date. It’s a cause very dear to her heart with ...

I write in disgust that the wonderful lady, Ann Gregory, has been reported to South Holland District Council. She is a volunteer charity worker for Jerry Green Dogs Trust, selling donated items from her driveway in Holbeach, a few days per week. All money goes to Jerry Green, often thousands of pounds per year. Sadly, some nasty person has reported ...

I am writing to express my disgust and anger at SHDC’s failure to refund £150 from council tax that we are entitled to and already paid in April to people who pay by direct debit. We paid our council tax in full at the beginning of the fiscal year. I have made enquiries by phone several times and been given ...

Judging by the patterns of newspaper consumption still favoured, notwithstanding recent price increases, at my local shop, I can’t imagine many local residents will have seen the recent publicity the town received in one more liberal section of the national media. I am afraid it does not reflect well on us. The stubborn inability of local Johnson loyalists to accept ...

I have been a supporter of Ann Gregory and her husband Mac, who have tirelessly worked for the last few years to raise about £23,000 for this charity by organising a “yard sale”. I was shocked and disappointed to learn that SHDC have stopped their admirable devotion to this cause, deciding that they are running a business from their home ...

I write with regard to the letter from Gill Allen (30/6/22), which appears to berate the recent strike action(s) by various workers and having particular reference to the miners’ strike of the 1980s. It is stated how, as a serving police officer at the time, they had to send officers to help other forces, with the inference being that this ...

After looking at all the planning applications for new homes with affordable homes, Help to Buy and shared ownership schemes, I am wondering where there are any for people with mobility issues (bungalows)? If I have missed them please let me know. Please remember people with disabilities would like these schemes. C Harman

I accept the subject of parking fees has been aired several times but I must add my observations to previous remarks. Today I visited Horncastle and parked in the middle of the town. The fee was £1 for up to four hours, but for one hour it was free parking. Is it not possible for South Holland to implement similar ...

All Boris’s faults and weaknesses – habitual lying, shallow thinking, self-interest – were widely known years ago, so Conservatives knew what they were doing when they chose him as leader. The end point was foreseeable and foreseen by many. Presumably, the determining factor in the choice was his good-old-boy manner, which was calculated to bring in votes from those who ...

Fund should be shared fairly Long Sutton Parish Council wish to advise that they are disappointed that they have not been advised of the UK Shared Prosperity Fund consultation until June 22 when they were indirectly advised. The council have made it known to ward members of their disappointment that SHDC did not send the council details directly. As one ...