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Holbeach’s Boston Road South is set for a three-week rebuild with a council saying it hopes to be “back to normal” in five weeks. The road has been plagued with issues and has repeatedly sunken every time it’s thought to have been fixed in over two years. After the completion of an Anglian Water survey, Lincolnshire County Council says it ...

A decision on whether to turn a village pub and replace it with housing has been deferred to allow the applicant to get more financial information together. An outline application has been submitted to turn The Duke of York in Gosberton Risegate into four homes. Planning officers at South Holland District Council recommended the plan be rejected stating: “The proposed ...

A local developer has been told it can’t reduce the number of affordable homes on its more than half built Holbeach site amid worries it would ‘open the floodgates’ to similar applications. Loosegate Developments is building 77 homes off Wignall’s Gate, 19 of which (25 per cent) are designated as affordable homes. It applied to South Holland District Council to ...

A bid to build more than 120 homes on a site in Sutton Bridge has been thrown out for a second time. While a smaller site of 79 homes has previously been passed, developer Loyd Homes wants to build more on a bigger area, part of which is outside of what has been allocated for development as part of the ...

The number of prosecutions over fly-tipping in the area has been branded ’embarrassing’ as a man became the first fined in over two years. After South Holland District Council made no prosecutions in either the 20/21 or 21/22 financial years Martin Salter, of Wright’s Lane, Sutton Bridge, was earlier this month prosecuted for dumping used tyres in Centenary Way. Boston ...

The public toilets in Vine Street have been vandalised so many times after a £3,000 refurbishment was completed in January that they’ve been forced to close again. Vandals have smashed through different locks a meeting of South Holland District Council’s Performance Monitoring Panel were told last week. The council say £4,000 worth of damage has been caused in its toilets ...

The ‘public are not impressed with the present performance’ of CCTV in South Holland it’s been claimed, with a review of the service set to be carried out. However Coun Bryan Alcock also said he felt it was working in Spalding after it was revealed that all but one of the 24 arrests made in the last financial year in ...

Long Sutton could soon be welcoming more tourists as plans for a new holiday park have been submitted. The new park would offer accommodation in timber huts and sites for touring caravans. Proposals have been submitted to South Holland District Council for land adjacent to 80 Wisbech Road. There would also be work carried out on an existing lake as ...

South Holland District Council has received over 400 calls a day more than normal due to the £150 rebate scheme. It was revealed after Amie Househam, the head of customer contact for PSPS, the company set up for customer interaction, came before the authority’s Performance Monitoring Panel who asked why it hadn’t been meeting targets. Only 77.41 per cent of ...

A 60-year-old man from Sutton Bridge is the first to be prosecuted for fly-tipping in South Holland in two-years following a public tip off. Martin Salter of Wright’s Lane is £3,038 out of pocket after dumping seven used vehicle tyres in Centenary Way on November 25, 2021. South Holland District Council carried out the prosecution after the fly-tipping was spotted ...

A wide range of groups have been left looking for a new meeting place as a popular Spalding venue is taken under county council control. For almost 40 years, the Ivo Day Centre on Albion Street has been a safe haven for groups ranging from addiction support to mental health services. Now building owner Lincolnshire County Council has given the ...

Officers have highlighted actions it’s proposed to improve Spalding, including ‘positive steps’ having been made towards the possible creation of a Business Improvement District. The Spalding Town Centre Improvement Group and South Holland District Council work was outlined to the town’s forum last week. Other work included encouraging a clean up of the outside of the Bet Fred building and ...

New benches have been put in place outside Spalding station to mark the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee. South Holland District Council leader Gary Porter and councillors Gary Taylor and Glynis Scalese used their allocated ward budgets to purchase the specially crafted designs that replace old, worn benches. The new benches were installed by Coun Jack Tyrrell and Ivan Thompson with Jan ...

There are calls for two hours’ free parking to be introduced amid the setting up of a group to look at ‘public space use’ in Spalding town centre. Councillor Christine Lawton argued that would help stop people breaching the Traffic Regulation Order (TRO) which is meant to ban vehicles from Market Place and Hall Place from 10am to 4pm Monday ...

A meeting is to be held next week to discuss a proposal to bring Spalding’s Flower Parade back next year. As reported last week, Steve Timewell has launched a campaign to return a popular event to the town.He’s now set to hold an open public meeting at 7pm on Thursday, June 23 at the Constitutional Club in Broad Street, Spalding. ...

Residents are being asked not to feed pigeons in Spalding Town Centre amid a claim bringing in birds of pray to scare them away isn’t working. For the past few weeks a pest control company has been bringing in a peregrine falcon in a bid to move the birds on, the Spalding Town Forum was told last week. But Coun ...

Calls for a town council for Spalding have been renewed amid criticisms of the ‘talking shop’ town forum and lack of Jubilee celebrations in the town. Forum chair Coun Roger Gambba-Jones has long advocated for the town to have its own level of authority. Instead the Spalding Town Forum acts for discussions and is meant to be made up of ...

Creating more homes above shops in Spalding town centre is something that’s being looked into, but councillors have warned it might not be possible. South Holland District Council is looking at other authorities’ attempts to see if it might work in the district. The council’s assistant director for strategic growth and development Matthew Hogan told last week’s Spalding Town Forum ...

A new 3G floodlit football pitch and multi-use games area are among new facilities proposed as part of a planned revamp of Spalding’s Castle Sports Complex. South Holland District Council is bidding for £20million bid from the Government’s Levelling Up Fund to invest in the site. The bid is set to include a full remodel of the existing provision at ...

The ‘money pit’ South Holland Centre is in a much better place after last year’s cuts, it’s been claimed, amid an increase in usage in recent months. The recommendations put forward by a task group set up to look at the district’s main arts venue were passed by South Holland District Council’s Executive on Tuesday. The meeting heard that cost ...