Letters

Well done on your front page article regarding Enough is Enough. I have already written to John Hayes MP on this matter and hope he will get involved too. There is absolutely no need for anybody to be selling alcohol at 6am as Mr Korwan has asked for in his application. Licences have been given too easily in the last ...

I’m reading last week’s edition of The Voice, which carries the front page headline “Enough Is Enough” and goes on to say how the residents of Spalding are fed up with the proliferation of licensed premises in the town centre. The Voice goes on to say: “Many readers vented anger at the latest premises licence application for the former China ...

I have just read your front page article in The Voice and I heartily agree that Spalding is inundated with off-licences. It is time to put a stop to them. If people want to buy alcohol there are supermarkets and pubs. The licences that have been revoked should not have them renewed. Please, no more off-licences. They are a detriment ...

I am writing following your excellent front page this week highlighting the growing public concern over off-licences and foreign food shops. It is high time the local council listened to the long held beliefs that this town is losing appeal because of the spread of tacky convenience stores and takeaways. Winsover Road is rapidly becoming the fag-end of Spalding as ...

I read your latest headline with a sense of relief – relief that someone is listening and prepared to make a stand for the people of Spalding. The town has reached saturation point with off-licences and simply doesn’t need any more. As you quite rightly point out, the high number doesn’t encourage the diversification of shops and increases anti-social behaviour ...

Having just read your article “Enough is Enough” in The Voice, I’m not sure if our council members are listening to the townspeople. I agree completely with their actions on these criminals that we read about week on week, not only has our once beautiful town got more than enough of these of shops with their windows full of awful ...

Brilliant to see The Voice at last having a strong voice on the issues of eastern European shops and more particularly, off-licences in Spalding. Of course the people of Spalding are totally fed up with the influx of so many migrants and their illegal activities, which now seems to be a daily issue in Spalding. Of course their trade and ...

Just wanted to say how pleased I was to see your article “Enough is enough”. How many more European supermarkets are the council going to allow? I agree, how can they be legitimately making a profit given how many stores there are vs. demand? Surely if a business owner is caught supplying illegal contraband, they shouldn’t be granted permission to ...

How can you have integration in Spalding where when you drive into town via the A151 all you see is eastern European shops catering for people from Europe. I’ve never been in one of these shops as I feel like an outsider in my own town, and now China City has closed and become another shop (we don’t need any ...

Your article about Sir John Gleed School implies that the highly paid CFBT employees, (with no local knowledge/interest, as opposed to the unpaid local governors) “expert team parachuted in” by CFBT had some influence over the latest Ofsted report. The volunteer local governors were dismissed on November 26. The Ofsted inspection took place on December 8. I do not think ...

After a remarkably productive inaugural meeting of the Riverside Community Forum in December, I paid a visit to the district council depot on West Marsh Road in order to discuss some items raised. Not only on that very day but also in the weeks previous, members of the team had been fighting an ongoing battle with vandalism to bins and ...

I belong to Holbeach walking for health. We meet every Thursday at the Services Club, Holbeach, and then have a walk around the town and surrounding fields etc. This particular route took us up Northons Lane and what we saw was unbelievable. Along the length of the field at the bottom of the lane field side were at least 27 ...

Europe is now experiencing a mass migration of people escaping from levels of extreme poverty, persecution and endemic war in their homelands. I too share some of Craig Jackson’s concerns about how to control the influx of migrants and how to maintain community cohesion among our citizens. Simply saying we will enforce Border Controls will not in itself diminish the ...

I vowed I wouldn’t write another letter concerning the death trap of a road or lack of roundabout on the A16 because I feel no-one is listening. After Friday’s frightening experience at the Old Radar Cross Road, I’ve changed my mind. At 6pm there was a very heavy flow of traffic both ways. I was coming off the Holbeach B1116. ...

Spalding Arts & Crafts Society is celebrating its 100th anniversary. Started in 1916 by surgeons at the Johnson Hospital to help rehabilitate wounded soldiers, it is one of the oldest art societies in the country. We are keen to hear from locals who were members, or who had family who were members, with a view to having a folder on ...

It’s very interesting to see South Holland District Council considering this construction. Surely at a time that all these cuts are being proposed, would it not be better to wait until more important issues have been resolved. Kay Weeks Holbeach   It is awful! It looks like something that belongs on the beach, NOT in Ayscoughfee Gardens. l fail to ...

In reply to Coun R Gammba-Jones’ letter 20/01/2016: Obviously Paul Foyster and Roger have differing political allegiances. The issues of market position can only be answered by trying it down at the new site. However Roger seems to imply that all is fair when it comes to the distribution of monies and services within the district. This, of course, is ...

I presume in the interests of economy, the council has changed the quality of the refuse collection bags. The green ones in particular are inferior and unsuitable. They are thinner and tear easily when full. They are not scored properly where they join, that’s if you can find the join, and tear easily when being separated. Whilst I appreciate we ...

South Holland District Council never ceases to amaze. I have tried to get something done about the speed vehicles travel down Broadgate, Sutton St James. It is a 30mph road but everyone seems to travel around 50mph. Cars, motorbikes, school buses, heavy huge farm implements and lorries all thunder through Broadgate, rattling houses and putting cracks in walls. When I ...

Council services, including elderly care, children centres, parks and libraries, have suffered desperately under the weight of the previous government’s spending cuts, which amounted to an £18bn cull in real terms since 2010. But local authorities’ pain is far from over after the Chancellor’s autumn statement revealed they will continue to bear austerity’s greatest burden. The central government grant – ...