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New pay machines costing a total of £88,500 have been installed in South Holland car parks. It comes after the recent rise in the cost of parking in the district.In total there’s two machines erected in Spalding’s Herring Lane, Victoria Street and Winfrey Avenue car parks as well as Holbeach’s Boston Road one.A single machine has been installed in Vine ...

Water levels on the River Welland look likely to be low for most of the summer after it was claimed asbestos was found where its banks were breached. The Voice understands work was meant to start on repairing the breach on Monday (April 22).The Environment Agency has not told The Voice the reason for not starting, but a representative told ...

A former South Holland District Council employee spent £8,470 on company cards after her mental health deteriorated due to the amount of work put on her, a court has heard. Beverley Paskell, 41, of The Chase, Crowland, pleaded guilty to fraud by abuse of position at Boston Magistrates Court today (Wednesday, April 24). The charge relates to a two year ...

A Spalding man has been fined for a host of charges relating to the illegal sale of cigarettes at a currently closed shop. Ganjo Omer, of Spring Gardens, appeared at Boston Magistrates’ Court earlier this month on the charges regarding the Baltic Shop on Winsover Road on December 12, 2023.Omer pleaded guilty to having criminal property amounting to 8,000 cigarettes, ...

The top earners at local councils have been revealed with 14 people at Lincolnshire County Council and five working with South Holland District Council earning over £100,000 a year. The Tax Payers Alliance group has published a list of every role that received above that figure, writes Local Democracy Reporter Ellis Karran.Collectively, all of Lincolnshire’s chief executives earned a combined ...

Councillors have said they hope building a holiday park in Whaplode will attract visitors to the area as one called previous planners ‘Philistines’ for not allowing more sculptures in the village. Bleu Raye Farm, off Millgate, has been before South Holland District Council’s Planning Committee on many occasions, and was previously listed to be a gypsy and traveller site.Now the ...

Plans to open Moulton Park to the public are at a ‘stalemate’, its proposed owner says, despite receiving planning permission last week. The John and Maureen Biggadike Foundation is looking to buy the land from South Holland District Council to make it a public park.But the charity’s chair Richard Lewis said it doesn’t know whether to go through with it ...

The running of the South Holland Centre could be farmed out and ran as part of the contract that operates leisure centres. ‘Boozy bingo’ nights, a dance festival and courses to learn jobs at theatres are among the ideas to improve ticket sales and make the centre better used.A report by South Holland District Council assistant director of leisure and ...

A bid for permission to make agricultural land into a garden has been deferred for more clarity, including over a static ‘caravan’ being sited on it illegally. The land is part of Seagate Farm in Long Sutton but the applicant wants to incorporate it to increase the size of the domestic garden of 184 Seagate Road.The initial application also included ...

The ‘Levelling Up’ work on the A16 Springfields/McDonalds roundabout is delayed by a few months, Lincolnshire County Council has said. It comes a week after the authority confirmed 10-months of works on the next roundabout north on the A16, the Wardentree Lane junction, will start next month. In a release entitled ‘Springfield Roundabout improvements pass midway point’, the county council ...

An application to build 92 homes in Gosberton has been given the green light by planners. The land off York Gardens had been ear-marked for housing as part of the South and East Lincolnshire Local Plan.It had been pencilled in to having up to 76 home on site, but developer Gleeson Homes initially asked for planning permission for 96 homes.The ...

An application to build an 88 bed care home on the site of the former Bull and Monkie pub in Spalding has been deferred. South Holland District Council Planning Committee members spoke at its meeting last night about issues with the application particularly the four storey height of it. Planning officers acknowledged the development would have a ‘serious impact’ on ...

Claims that Holbeach Parish Council might have paid out around £50,000 to ex staff in recent years, are being looked into. A police investigation has also been launched into a batch of anonymous letters sent out with alleged details of a payment.The authority’s accounts reveal it made an ex-gratia payment of £10,000 in January, but has declined to say what ...

The leader of Lincolnshire County Council is confident that the devolution deal for Greater Lincolnshire will proceed as planned, with the combined mayoral authority expected to be established from October. In March, LCC, along North and North East Lincolnshire councils, formally voted in favour of the deal, which promises to bring an additional £24 million per year to Lincolnshire.It has ...

South Holland District Council says the 76 homes it has delivered in the last financial year is a record for the authority. Some 48 are rented council properties, 21 are for sale under shared ownership proposals and seven are privately rented through SHDC’s own housing company Welland Homes.They are in places including Crowland, Holbeach, Gosberton, Surfleet, Weston and Sutton St ...

A new special educational needs school just outside Holbeach has been given the go-ahead by planners. The Three Chestnuts, on Fen Road, is currently operated as a residential care home for six children by Hexagon Care Services.The company applied for change of use planning permission to create an independent SEND (special education needs and/or disabilities) school catering for up to ...

BT has said it has scheduled cleaning work to be carried out on town phone boxes hit by graffiti. Recently at the Spalding Town Forum, district councillor Gary Taylor brought up the condition of the phone boxes in the town in a discussion about graffiti.He highlighted that BT was one of the organisations he’d struggled to get hold of about ...

Three South Holland shops were given temporary closure orders after tip offs by members of the public they were selling illegal cigarettes and vapes, Trading Standards has said. As previously reported, Nasza Biedronka in Sheep Market and Easy Shop in Station Street, Spalding plus Holbeach Market on that town’s High Street have been shut down for three months following court ...

A South Holland District Council-owned housing company has once again given its profits to charity. Welland Homes made a £128,274 profit which has been shared between Citizens Advice South Lincolnshire, the Lincolnshire Community and Voluntary Service, Active Lincolnshire and South Holland in Bloom. Citizens Advice South Lincolnshire will receive £88,074, which will be used in its goals to provide free ...

Time is running out for South Holland residents to add ideas to a heritage strategy for the area. South Holland District Council is working with Heritage Lincolnshire to create a strategy for Spalding.Over the next ten years, the Spalding Heritage Strategy will see groups and funders join forces with the district and county council.A survey online is due to end ...