Council

Plans to transform a Spalding eyesore into a new 88-bed care home look likely to be approved. The former Bull and Monkie pub, in Church Gate, has long been labelled a blot on the landscape, and members of South Holland District Council’s planning committee will discuss the latest development next Wednesday.The site is within the town’s Conservation Area and is ...

More than £800,00 has been allocated to South Holland District Council to get ready for waste food collections. Funding has been allocated to each of the councils in Lincolnshire responsible for collecting waste from residents.Weekly collections of food waste will be introduced across the country following a ‘simpler recycling’ government announcement last year.There is a working deadline of the end ...

A bid to turn a former barn into a museum to house a World War II amphibious vehicle pulled out of the ground a few years ago, has been approved. Daniel Abbot, who led the team that brought the second world war Buffalo landing vehicle out of the ground, has long wanted to keep it in the area and open ...

Work needs to be carried out on Spalding’s World War I memorial designed by Sir Edwin Lutyens. The memorial, in Ayscoughfee Hall Gardens, was unveiled in 1922 and is Grade I listed.But time is taking its toll, and remedial works need to be carried out, particularly to the plinth where many of the stones are ‘badly eroded’ says a report ...

The members of the board formed to oversee the £20m Levelling Up money for Spalding has been revealed. The Spalding Town Board met for the first time last night (Monday) in a meeting held behind closed doors. The board is to be made up of: Chair: Robin Hancox, Lincolnshire Field Products Alistair Main, Lighthouse Church Petronella Keeling, Spalding Gentleman Society ...

An hour’s free parking will be allowed in Holbeach’s Boston Road South car park after a change of mind. You currently get up to two hours free parking at the site, but as part of rises in charges in South Holland District Council’s budget it had been proposed to remove that. But just before the new charges were due to ...

Members of the public who are on South Holland District Council’s waiting list for its Green Waste Scheme are urged to respond if they’ve received a letter inviting to pick one up or lose their place in the queue. The cost of the scheme is also set to go up next month.The authority’s portfolio holder for environmental services Jack Tyrrell ...

A key underpass beneath the A17 in Holbeach became flooded last week after a log became lodged in the drainage system there. Coun Tracey Carter said it looked like it had been done deliberately but she hoped that wasn’t the case.As the underpass was unusable, instead pedestrians looking to come into Holbeach from the other side of the road had ...

South Holland District Council is looking into using Artificial Intelligence (AI) for some of its services. The issue was brought up at a recent meeting of the council.Coun Jim Astill, the council’s portfolio holder for corporate governance and communications, said: “AI has a position in some of the things we do and it can revolutionise some of our customer service ...

The firm hired to tackle anti-social behaviour in South Holland handed out more than 200 fines in the first two months of this year. The figures were revealed when a council member challenged if Kingdom workers were getting out enough in villages and outside of the towns.Coun Michael Booth raised the matter at South Holland District Council recently.“There’s more and ...

A new bus ‘passenger charter’ for the county has been published. Lincolnshire County Council, which has created the document, says it ‘commits bus operators to more consistent and improved services’.As part of the national bus strategy created by the government, every authority that oversees transports has to create a charter.It will come into effect on Monday, April 1.Coun Richard Davies, ...

The consultation into the proposed new South Holland Health and Wellbeing Hub has been launched and first impressions released. The redevelopment of the Castle Sports Complex in Spalding is being carried out following the awarding of £20m of Levelling Up money from the government. South Holland District Council hopes to start work on the new building later this year for ...

The National Grid could be facing legal action over the proposals to site 87-miles of pylons straight through South Holland. It’s looking to create a new above ground electrical line between Grimsby and Walpole, in Norfolk.But Lincolnshire County Council is ready to take the matter to court over the way the National Grid has been ‘consulting.’And the plans for 420 ...

Car parking charges in Spalding and Holbeach are being increased South Holland District Council has announced the increases it passed as part of its budget for the next financial year beginning in April. It says the charges are ‘necessary’ and is introducing new shoppers’ and workers’ passes. The changes are: Boston Road South in Holbeach will be a £1 fee ...

Planning permission has been granted to build 37 homes off Stockwell Gate in Whaplode Drove. The application had previously been deferred after concerns over the layout.But applicant Stinders Home had reworked the plans and they were passed by South Holland District Council’s Planning Committee last week.“We listened to the concerns at the last meeting and have to confess, we agreed ...

Less than one per cent of the population of Lincolnshire responded to a major consultation on devolution. With a population of 1.1m, Greater Lincolnshire saw just 0.3 per cent of residents take part. And the biggest cohort was those aged between 65 and 74.Members of the county council are being asked to approve the next steps on a road to ...

South Holland District Council will not be handing back any of its Green Homes funding a councillor has claimed.It’s been reported in the national press that many authorities had struggled to spend their allocation from central government.But Coun Tracey Carter deputy leader and portfolio holder for operational housing said SHDC had allocated all of its £2.8m it had been given.“A ...

Lincolnshire County Council is looking to take National Grid to court over the way it has been consulting the public on its massive Grimsby to Walpole pylon scheme.The Nation Grid announced in January that it would string up o 420 pylons across an 87-mile stretch from Grimsby to Walpole in West Norfolk.The news hasn’t been well received, with protestors launching ...

Some of the £262m funding being given to Lincolnshire should go on repairing potholes on the A16 and A17 through South Holland, a councillor has claimed. Coun Bryan Alcock asked South Holland District Council leader Nick Worth if he’d lobby Lincolnshire County Council to ensure funds are spent in the district.The money has been allocated by central government to Lincolnshire ...

South Holland District Council is the latest authority to announce its opposition to the planned pylon march ahead of the end of the initial consultation process on Wednesday, March 13. National Grid’s plan for the connection from Grimsby to Walpole in Norfolk is set to go right through South Holland.The issue was raised at South Holland District Council by Coun ...