Letters

Julian Frost asked (Voice, August 5) what’s going on at the recycling centre? The answer is inadequate facilities and insufficient opening hours! Terry ByattHolbeach

In your article about KFC and Taco Bell, the application submission demonstrates that there will be “environmental benefits” of the proposed development. How so? Concreting over prime agricultural land will ensure any rain, instead of being absorbed by the soil and released slowly over time, will be piped away quickly thus increasing the likelihood of flash flooding further down the ...

I should like to endorse the comments by Magdalena Podsiadly in a previous edition of The Voice. Spalding seems to be in the worst state I can remember since moving into the town over 40 years ago when it was an attractive market town with a vibrant atmosphere. Now the market hardly exists, thanks to SHDC making the stallholders feel ...

Regarding your article and Anglian Water’s answer to the capacity of the sewage system in Weston. It appears that they are winging their answers in order to collect the revenue gained by this potential development or trying to keep sweet the developers and local authorities. I recently retired from Anglian Water as a waste water maintenance technician and am fully ...

Great news about the new solar farm to be built on top grade farm land at Holbeach St Matthews.A couple of small details omitted from Green Energy International’s press release is how many homes will the farm by supplying electricity with overnight and also how many millions of pounds in subsidies paid out of my, and every other electricity users’ ...

Another gaming centre in the town centre? Is this what the town needs? I think not.Apart from adding more problems to an ever increasing deterioration of the town it will only make people stay away.Spalding is fast becoming a no-go area to decent people. It does nothing to make people want to shop there. It is dirty and run-down. It ...

On going home from work on a dark frosty late night at approximately 11.45pm, I decided to take a main road to be safe.So from Cowbit to Holbeach I went to Moulton Chapel to Saturday Bridge (Fen Road), then left towards Holbeach.Then I turned left on Hither Old Gate, not using this road normally, as I would have driven along ...

What on earth is the council playing at?I booked my slot to go to the Spalding Recycling Centre as I have done since the booking system was introduced. Never any problem. In and out in about five minutes.When I arrived, there was a queue with about six cars in front of me.As I waited I saw the queue building up ...

I refer to the article in The Voice of August 5 regarding relocating the funfair.I would wholeheartedly agree that the existing location of Victoria Street car park is totally unsuitable for this event. But I would not agree with the suggestion of relocating to the Castle Playing Field as there is definitely a lack of car parking at this site ...

Regarding the proposed adult gaming centre in the empty Dorothy Perkins shop – an application for signage for Merkur Slots has been lodged with South Holland District Council (application number H16-0789-21).Please object to both the business moving into our town and the signage proposal. If you don’t it will come!Our councillors don’t seem to care what is happening to our ...

Having been caught up in the recent queuing debacle at the recycling centre, when is it going to dawn on the county council that the site is no longer fit for purpose?The population of the area increases every month and they expect the populace (voters), to use the same inadequate resources instigated years ago.Additionally, how much recycling is being lost ...

Julian Frost asked (Voice, August 5) what’s going on at the recycling centre?The answer is inadequate facilities and insufficient opening hours! Terry ByattHolbeach

In your article about KFC and Taco Bell, the application submission demonstrates that there will be “environmental benefits” of the proposed development. How so?Concreting over prime agricultural land will ensure any rain, instead of being absorbed by the soil and released slowly over time, will be piped away quickly thus increasing the likelihood of flash flooding further down the system.Being ...

I should like to endorse the comments by Magdalena Podsiadly in a previous edition of The Voice.Spalding seems to be in the worst state I can remember since moving into the town over 40 years ago when it was an attractive market town with a vibrant atmosphere.Now the market hardly exists, thanks to SHDC making the stallholders feel unwelcome, reducing ...

Regarding your article and Anglian Water’s answer to the capacity of the sewage system in Weston.It appears that they are winging their answers in order to collect the revenue gained by this potential development or trying to keep sweet the developers and local authorities.I recently retired from Anglian Water as a waste water maintenance technician and am fully aware that ...

Reading of senior South Holland councillors’ plans to re-organise our services yet again via the proposed link-up with East Lindsey and Boston councils, I’m sure I can’t be the only one bemused by the way this all seems to have been cooked up behind closed doors. The challenges facing our area are blindingly obvious, yet it seems that our Conservative ...

I am pleased to see ACAS (Advisory and Conciliation Service) shining a light on the fire and rehire tactic that is being used against workers by unscrupulous bosses. ACAS has published a report into the practice of dismissal and re-engagement that has reportedly become increasingly common since the COVID-19 pandemic. ACAS was invited to carry out the fact-finding exercise by ...

I completely agree with Magdalena Podsiadly (last week’s Voice) about the appalling state of shop fronts in Spalding. All you have to do is walk along Winsover Road and you will see what she means. The Mini Poli shop gets my vote, the top floor windows are covered with rotting boards and falling apart. Will the council make the landlord ...

I have today returned from my second visit to the Spalding Recycling Centre working under the ‘new’ booking system. My visits have resulted in my queueing up – on the road – for over 40 minutes each time. Today’s visit resulted in some incidents of cars trying to push in. It ended after a visit from the local constabulary. The ...

What good news regarding KFC and Taco Bell getting permission to build new takeaways on Lincs Gateway Business Park. As well as providing direct employment, they will also provide endless jobs for Spalding Wombles in collecting takeaway rubbish that KFC and Taco Bell’s customers will doubtless generate along the roads around the site. As a keen walker I think the ...