Letters

It has recently been reported that Moulton Parish Council has concerns regarding redevelopment of the Gardman site, so close to the very attractive village centre. I hope Moulton will forgive me for using their concerns to illustrate a wider problem. In my personal opinion they are quite right to want a say with whatever happens in their patch at an ...

Recently in The Voice it stated that permission to build houses on the existing site at Battlefields Lane had been refused due to people having to cross the A17 to access facilities, etc. Two councillors were the main objectors. Where were these two councillors when Mrs Paula Hayes collected over 800 signatures from local people because of danger crossing the ...

Went for a walk around Spalding Town Centre this morning – and oh, what a mess of detritus and dereliction! Victoria Road Car Park. A scene of lovely beauty? Oh no. A town centre deposit for any and all rubbish (just look at the origins of the rubbish – not from the UK!) Next a walk down Abbey Path (pictured ...

The state of the roads in Spalding is dire. A particular issue is the lack of drainage on St Thomas’s Road at the junction of Welland Road. A few inches of rain leaves flood water on the Grammar School side of Welland Road (no drain, but sunken road); the drain outside Anglian Water depot totally unserviceable; the drain outside the ...

I was so impressed by the letter from Emma McKenna, in the edition of March 29, that I felt I had to take the unusual action and write to congratulate her on an excellent summary of concerns which a number of us on the district council have been expressing for some considerable time. Members from both the independent group as ...

What is happening to the world these days? My wife and I were shopping at Sainsbury’s in King’s Lynn recently. Walking down one of the aisles my wife picked up what she thought was a piece of rubbish and found it was £60 – three £20 notes. She asked me to take the money to customer services as it was ...

I have just watched a news item about potholes and the terrible state of the national road network in general. North, south, east, west – the story is the same neglect, neglect, neglect and the reasons are the same austerity, lack of money, tight budgets and an estimated repair bill of £9 billion is totally out of the question. The ...

I read with interest your front page story regarding a potential “planned overhaul of the leisure facilities ie the swimming pool and the Castle Sports Complex”. Having discussed this at length with friends recently, can I put forward a few suggestions? Firstly – and controversially to residents who live in Spalding – move the whole complex out of town. As ...

Upon reading in The Voice of the proposed resurfacing work to the road at Fleet Hargate being undertaken by Lincolnshire County Council, memory fast retracked to the fiasco of surface dressing at High Street, Holbeach plus Fleet Street and beyond. Of course, us ordinary people do not know the job title of any road repair or work, we just quite ...

I read with interest your front page report in The Voice, Thursday, March 15, regarding the possible overhaul of tatty and tired leisure facilities in South Holland. I along with many other people would totally agree that sports and leisure facilities urgently need bringing into the 21st century. I hope this proposed review not only looks at the Castle Sports ...

There has been a string of positive economic Brexit news over the last couple of weeks which should be shared. UK exports statistics released last week by the Office for National Statistics (ONS) showed UK exports rising 11.5 per cent to £625.9 billion in the past year, with service exports up 10.1 per cent and goods exports up 12.6 per ...

I am aware of the concerns of many of our residents regarding details in our latest rates bill, and offer my own apologies (and those of Coun Doug Dickens) that we were outvoted by other councillors in our opposition to the enormous and totally unwarranted increase in the village precept. Having considered the public assets owned by we parishioners, and ...

My name is Richard Brader, I am a trustee of the St James Deeping Signal Box Group. Our aim is to see the rebuilding of the Deeping St James signal box which was deemed to be in the path a Network Rail modernisation programme and was sympathetically deconstructed just over three years ago. The signal box was built in 1845 ...

I just wanted to say what a fantastic evening was had by everyone who attended the Jane Austen presentation hosted by Lucy Worsley last Saturday night at the South Holland Centre. The organisers, the staff at Bookmark and at the South Holland Centre have to be congratulated on bringing such an entertaining, knowledgeable, funny and interesting TV personality to Spalding. ...

It was good to be at the meeting on Tuesday evening (March 6) where many locals, parish councillors and district councillors turned out to Cowbit Village Hall. Many from other parishes also came for the open meeting regarding speeding through their villages, forgetting the bad weather conditions and putting their villages first. It was very informative and organiser Nigel Pepper ...

It is only a matter of weeks since my last communication with SHDC about fly tipping at Holland Road car park. I have to say that the previous tip was cleared within a couple of days of my report. Now, once again, the Flat Clearance Operatives have been at work – a mountain of detritus in the car park (pictured ...

In March 2013 the chairman of the Parish Council told us we were on the way to a zero precept, and the precept was reduced by 14 per cent in time for the General Election. Since then the precept has risen by over 50 per cent until this year it rises by a further 150 per cent. Only two councillors ...

There’s very little interest in the street lighting switch-off – I’m not surprised, it doesn’t matter what viewpoints the general public has, the council doesn’t listen as its minds is already made up on what is going to happen. We as a community wanted a safer crossing on hearing of changes on the A17. Meetings were had, no-one listened, we ...

The Welland Rivers Trust (WRT) is a charity dedicated to conservation, restoration and education within the Welland Catchment Area, and strives to take action to address all the issues affecting the quality of habitat, wildlife and water in the entire river catchment. The WRT currently have a Tesco ‘Bags of Help’ project up for public voting to improve the riverside ...

As the Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy Committee met last week to look at the impact of Brexit on the automotive sector, there were calls for the Government to keep the closest possible relationship with the existing EU regulatory and trading framework to give UK volume car manufacturing a realistic chance of survival post-Brexit. In a recently published report regarding ...