Council

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 ...

A councillor has welcomed new parking measures being brought in at a busy Spalding junction. Double yellow lines have been painted around where Winsover Road, Bourne Road, Hawthorn Bank, Carrington Road meet. County councillor Angela Newton says it’s something she’s been campaigning for over the last two years with three shops being situated in close proximity. “Before people were parking ...

A Sutton Bridge man has been found guilty of a new non-fatal strangulation charge. Robin Goldsmith, aged 45, of Garners Wharf was charged with non-fatal strangulation after an alleged assault reported in the village on Monday July 11. Goldsmith appeared via video link at Lincoln Magistrates’ Court today (13 July) where he was found guilty of the strangulation charge. He ...

Plans for closures of Enterprise Way and Spalding Road in Pinchbeck for the building of the most northerly junction of the Spalding Western Relief Road have changed. Spalding Road was due to be closed in the evenings from next Monday (July 18) but that will now not take place until mid-October. Work will begin when Enterprise Way has been reopened ...

Almost half of teenagers leaving local authority care in Lincolnshire are not in education, employment or training, members of the county council heard. A report to committee members says 53.1 per cent of care leavers in the county have found a role in one of the three options. “This measure remains below target but is slowly improving, despite fluctuations. “The ...

An adult gaming centre can open in the centre of Spalding, a central government planning inspector has ruled. Merkur Slots Ltd has been granted change of use planning permission for the former Dorothy Perkins in Market Place. South Holland District Council planning officers had previously rejected the application, but the company appealed to the planning inspectorate which has over-ruled the ...

The plans to build Boston Road South in Holbeach have been delayed yet again. Lincolnshire County Council hasn’t revealed a new date it will finally start work after Anglian Water’s ongoing strengthening of the sewer in the area continues to go on longer than expected. A spokesman for Lincolnshire County Council said: “It’s déjà vu for the start of the ...

A Spalding town road will be closed at nights later this month for improvement works. Church Street is set to be resurfaced from the traffic lights up to Stonegate junction.  Works are planned to happen from 8pm to 6am, Monday July 18 to Friday July 22 During the works a diversion will be in place which will direct traffic down ...

A judge warned a Spalding man to expect jail after he admitted attempted sex offences relating to five under-age girls. James Andrew Killner (50) was ordered to comply with the notification requirements of the Sex Offenders’ Register after he pleaded guilty to five offences during a hearing at Lincoln Crown Court. The offences which occurred between January 31, 2019 and ...

A parish council has said it’s fed up of the state of its roads and is to lobby for improvements. Members of Pinchbeck Parish Council say they are particularly a concerned about Northgate, a road meant to have a weight limit but still regularly used by HGVs. A council spokesman said one deep pot hole that highways authority Lincolnshire County ...

Lincolnshire County Council is being asked to back up its claim that not opening the tip two days a week has not had an effect on the increase in fly-tipping in South Holland. South Holland District Council’s Performance Monitoring Panel has asked a representative from the authority that oversees the running of the tips to attend a meeting to answer ...

Plans to create a place to help integrate veterans in South Holland have been deferred to ask for more information on the project. Project Dignity says it aims to help groups of veterans by providing accommodation, therapy and support to adjust back into civilian life. The scheme would house groups of six veterans in accommodation at Station Road, Gedney Hill ...