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A new scheme to aid Spalding streets that frequently flood is being put together it’s been claimed after properties were flooded last week. Lincolnshire Fire and Rescue said it had more than 100 calls from Spalding and Pinchbeck residents alone last Wednesday (August 17). They attributed it to a larger than expected storm which saw 146mm of rain fall in ...

A council partnership has launched its own local lottery with a £25,000 jackpot. The South and East Lincolnshire Lottery is aiming to raise money for local good causes. South Holland District Council first spoke about the setting up of a lottery for its residents back in 2020. Now it’s been launched by the South and East Lincolnshire Councils Partnership of ...

A revamped path linking Spalding’s town centre and Johnson Hospital has been officially opened. The Daffodil Route has been spruced up thanks to £85,000 of Section 106 money secured from Spalding Power Station. The work carried out by CG Godfrey of West Pinchbeck, included the laying of a 850m-long, 2.4m-wide near maintenance-free surface, as well as the cutting back of ...

A 200-year-old pub looks set to be turned into homes after a council stripped it of its listing as ‘a community asset’. The Chequers in Gedney Dyke is thought to have been the site of a pub since 1793, but its doors were closed for the final time on Christmas Eve 2017 with the owner claiming it was no longer ...

Apologies were made to Holbeach residents over the Boston Road South saga at a packed public meeting on Tuesday night, but those affected said they just wanted action. Residents who live nearest to the work said they believe the road is sinking again days after Anglian Water completed its most recent work and with Lincolnshire County Council claiming it would ...

Lincolnshire County Council says it hopes to have Boston Road South reopened in two weeks. That’s after the authorities Highways department today (Monday, August 15) began work to reconstruct the road following the completion of Anglian Water’s rebuilding of the sewer system in the area. The county council had said it would initially take three weeks to get the road ...

The roll out of Holbeach’s completely revamped public toilets has taken place. The work to update the facilities and make them more secure has been funded by the Town Centre Improvement grants and the Changing Places Fund. The latter is a government fund to improve access for those with a disability. But it also includes new security features including an ...

Despite using almost five million plastic sacks a year, South Holland District Council is not joining a new scheme to collect dry recycling in a wheelie bin. Both the authority’s partners in the South East Lincolnshire Council Partnership have adopted a purple-lidded bin for clean paper and cardboard for recycling. South Holland is still the only council in the county, ...

A Spalding cycling group is looking to create a new path to help people get more easily to KFC, Taco Bell and Cowbit. Action group PEDALS is looking to create the New River pathway from the Little London Bridge and linking up with the Lincs Gateway Business Park. The majority of the proposed route would be along existing farm tracks ...

A CCTV deterrent has been put up outside Spalding railway station amid claims thieves have tried to steal benches installed for the Queen’s jubilee. One of the benches in particular has been damaged and loosened from its footings, just weeks after they were installed. South Holland District Council leader Gary Porter and councillors Gary Taylor and Glynis Scalese used their ...

The £20m bid to revamp Spalding’s Castle Sports Complex has officially been submitted. South Holland District Council wants to extend the ‘dry-side’ of the complex so it can incorporate three pools. Other attraction on the site would include a new 3G floodlit football pitch, a changing pavilion and a multi-use games area for a variety of other sports including basketball. ...

The three-year saga of a Holbeach sinkhole will be on the agenda at a public meeting in the town. With work continuing on Boston Road South, the parish council is responding to a request to hold the meeting. Anglian Water, county highways and county and district council member Tracey Carter have all been invited to take part. A date within ...

A businessman says he’s worried his car wash business will not survive the roadworks in and around Wardentree Lane. Mohamed Khaled, of Pinchbeck Car Wash on Enterprise Way, says business is down “60 to 70 per cent” following the closure of that road at its junction with Spalding Road on Friday. The length of closure has been extended and it’s ...

A host of new ‘intelligent’ CCTV cameras are to be installed in Spalding in a bid to create ‘safe zone areas’. The cameras will be placed in areas where there’s no current coverage between pubs and clubs and transport links such as taxi ranks. A network of volunteers is also to be created to monitor the cameras which are currently ...

Plans for a self-build, zero carbon home have been given the green light. The four bedroom home off Glenside North in Pinchbeck was passed by South Holland District Council’s Planning Committee last week despite officers recommending it be refused. They argued that it was on greenfield site and in open countryside and away from local amenities. But a number of ...

An applicant has been told to sit its plans for a dog training centre in Surfleet amid concerns over noise. Hayley Laches had hoped for change of use permission for land off Gubboles Drove to open at times between 9am to 8pm, Monday to Friday and 9am to 7pm, Saturday, Sunday and Bank Holidays. Five councillors, both Gosberton and Surfleet ...

A Gedney Dyke agriculture firm has been given the green light for an innovative new building. JEPCO says it is needed due to climate change, increased fuel costs and a lack of available seasonal labour. It’s also been praised for gaining a separate but linked application to build a private road that would mean traffic using its Norfolk House Farm ...

There’s calls for the NHS to honour a pledge for a surgery in the west of Spalding as it monitors if there’s enough places in the area’s GP surgeries following the announced closure of the Spalding Surgery. Set up in 2018 to replace the former Pennygate Surgery, it’s 3,000 patients are now to be transferred elsewhere before the planned closure ...

Plans have been resubmitted to site the Johnson drinking fountain in Spalding’s Ayscoughfee Gardens. South Holland District Council is applying to put the 19th century structure in the grounds of the hall. There had been a petition to have it put in the town centre, but the application is for the former site of a paddling pool. It had previously ...

County council plans to rebuild Boston Road South in Holbeach remain on hold as Anglian Water sewer works are still happening. Weeks of work by Anglian Water to repair a sewer in the sinkhole-hit Lincolnshire road are ongoing – and will carry on into next week.  The news means that Lincolnshire County Council won’t be able to begin the road ...