Council

More than £7m is heading to South Holland, Boston and East Lindsey to help residents with energy efficiency in their homes The money will be used to deliver the next phase of Green Homes Grants to private homeowners and landlords. South and East Lincolnshire Councils Partnership is taking part in the Sustainable Warmth Programme to help low-income households. The Home ...

Council leaders across the county are inviting government minister Michael Gove for talks after missing out on a devolution deal. The Government published its levelling-up White Paper last week and Lincolnshire was not among the initial group chosen. The white paper proposes devolution deals designed to create new high-wage, high-skill jobs.Part of the deal will also look to transform towns ...

Long-standing plans to improve the Daffodil Route path in Spalding are to due to start this month. Partly built on the former Spalding to Boston railway line, it runs from Pinchbeck Road opposite the junction with Park Road to Enterprise Way in Pinchbeck, and was created just over ten years ago as a route for cyclists and pedestrians to get ...

An Army veteran has taken on the running of Holbeach Parish Council’s Remembrance Sunday parade for 2022 The authority cancelled the usual 2021 parade, citing a lack of volunteers coming forward by a set deadline as a reason. That caused outrage around the town and led to veterans’ fundraiser Harold Payne, of the Anglia Motel, Fleet Hargate, organising a parade ...

Holbeach Parish Council is to put up its share of the council tax by 9.4 per cent while announcing future projects. The change amounts to an increase of £6.03 for a band D property over the year or 50p a month. The authority says it hopes to use the £244,340 it will collect from the precept – the share of ...

Holbeach’s Boston Road South is set for yet-more roadworks. Lincolnshire County Council says a survey has identified ‘an anomaly’ caused by traffic as the reason for the work required. The council also states that the cause of numerous subsidences in recent years is not due to Anglian Water work. The roadworks are due to start on February 10 and 11 ...

South Holland District Council is to purchase more than 5,000 bins to extend its Garden Waste Collection Scheme. Three full times jobs for a supervisor, HGV driver and loader are also to be created as part of the £29,000 spend. Coun Roger Gambba-Jones, the council’s portfolio holder for environmental services, said: “The scheme is rapidly approaching maximum capacity of 10,000 ...

Amid criticism of the operator of South Holland’s leisure facilities new options for them are being pursued, it’s been claimed. Coun Angela Newton has been among those leading the calls for replacements for the likes of the Castle Sports Complex. And at a budget scrutiny meeting last week she criticised operator Parkwood’s closure of facilities, particularly the cafe, while the ...

Plans for 68 new homes in Weston look likely to be approved by planners. The application by Ashwood Homes is due to go before the members of South Holland District Council’s planning committee for discussion on Wednesday. Officers have recommended approval for developing the site north of High Road in the village. The parish council objected to the application on ...

Local police officers have asked councils to look at installing hydraulic bollards to stop people driving in Spalding’s market place when they’re not meant to, saying their attempts to enforce it are met with abuse. PC Craig Lockton asked members of Spalding Town Forum last week whether policing the traffic restriction order (TRO), which restricts most vehicles from driving through ...

There’s hopes M&Co will stay in Spalding as South Holland District Council says it’s working with the shopping chain to find new premises. A closing down sale began at the Bridge Street store last month which is due to shut its doors for the final time in mid-February. Coun Christine Lawton asked council officers what they were doing for the ...

Spalding’s Civic Society has launched a petition urging a historic drinking fountain be brought back to the town centre rather than put back in Ayscoughfee Gardens. As The Voice reported last week, South Holland District Council is working on planning permission to site The Johnson Memorial Fountain there. It was previously removed from Ayscoughfee to make way for the war ...

A Spalding cul-de-sac resident says she and her neighbours are fed up after four-years of fly-tipping underneath a ‘fly-tippers will be prosecuted’ sign. Amanda Goddard says she and fellow Pullmans Court residents are fed up of it being used as a fly-tip site, particularly as the dumped rubbish ends up blowing into their own front gardens. She says she’s been ...

Spalding’s Sheep Market toilets are set to be closed for the foreseeable future due to asbestos as a district-wide clean of the district’s other facilities was announced. Councillors are looking into a “new situation” for the facilities while also looking at options for the toilets in Holbeach and Ayscoughfee Gardens. Councillor Rodney Grocock, portfolio holder for planning and assets, said: ...

A man’s bid to take on the premises licence of a Sutton Bridge shop where an illegal worker sold 15-year-olds alcohol has failed due to claimed connections with the previous owners. Ramesh Babu Mohan had applied to South Holland District Council’s Licensing Panel to take over the responsibility for City Stores in Bridge Road. In October the committee revoked the ...

Moulton residents are being asked for their views on the latest plans for a long-awaited play and picnic area for the village. South Holland District Council has ear-marked £88,000 towards the development in its budget for the 2022/23 financial year. The current plan is for Moulton Parish Council to lease an acre of Moulton Park, off Bell Lane. A parish ...

A part-retrospective application to create a site for traveller families in Gedney has been refused. Some work on a driveway for the site for five families and associated buildings off Blazegate has already been carried out, planning officers said, but they recommended the application be refused on grounds including that there’s already enough allocated places for traveller sites in the ...

What’s it’s claimed will be a ‘world first’ factory of its kind just off the A16 in Low Fulney has been given the thumbs up by planners. Naylor Farms is set to build World First Protein, a plant based protein extraction facility on agricultural land south of Low Road that’s outside the usual areas for permitted development. It aims to ...

Controversial plans for 81 new homes in Holbeach have been given the go-ahead after a debate over what developer contributions needed to be made. The application for the site east of Chaffinch Way by Ashwood Homes has received numerous objections with concerns raised including over the access to the homes and lack of facilities in the town amid increasing housing ...

More than a year after the Spalding Wombles starting clearing rubbish around the town and several thousand black bags later, there have been no prosecutions for fly tipping by the district council. While neighbouring Boston Borough Council has secured 25 prosecutions in six months, South Holland has zero in the last year. Despite ‘hundreds’ of reports of fly tipping around ...