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Public consultation on climate change strategy for South Holland has been launched by the district council. Residents are invited to share views on plans to work towards the country’s net zero by 2050 target set by national government. Emissions in South Holland have dropped 25.8 per cent between 2005 and 2019, though that’s less than Boston (35.3 per cent) and ...

South Holland District Council is putting its share of the council tax up by 2.83 per cent – but says that will all go to the area’s drainage boards while it is still looking to save half a million pounds. The increase will amount to £4.95 a year for a Band D property but the authority’s portfolio holder for finance, ...

Work has officially begun on the first section of the Spalding Western Relief Road with an aimed completion date of Autumn 2023 having been revealed. What is intended to be the first of five sections to be accessed from a new five-way roundabout off Pinchbeck Road is being created in the north of the town. Lincolnshire County Council, which is ...

Creating a Business or new Community Improvement District is the latest idea being looked into to help town centres such as Spalding. As the ‘closing down sale’ signs went up on another shop in the town, M&Co in Bridge Street, South Holland District Council officers are looking into whether to create a new group town centre businesses can get involved ...

Plans for 81 new homes in Holbeach have been recommended for approval, providing around £450,000 is provided for infrastructure. The application for the site east of Chaffinch Way by Ashwood Homes has received numerous objections including from MP Sir John Hayes and Holbeach Parish Council Concerns included the access to the homes and lack of facilities in the town, but ...

Plans have been submitted for a zero-carbon home complete with insect hotel and bat boxes to be built on land in West Pinchbeck. The new property, on Glenside North, is a self-build and the design stems from the desire to have minimal impact and for the owners to become ‘more self-sufficient’ and grow food and flowers while generating their own ...

A man had to be rescued from the water by firefighters at an accident blackspot yesterday (Wednesday, December 29). Long Sutton fire crew attended the incident at around 8.15am after a car entered the river at Saturday Bridge off Ravens Bank in Holbeach St John. The driver of the car managed to get out of the vehicle before fire fighters ...

A legal street art wall for Spalding has taken a step closer after a committee to look into the idea was formed. Artists Karl Barfoot and Adam Sadd set up a petition asking for a legal place for their art in the town after being amazed at the reaction to displays they’d created around Spalding. Now South Holland District Council’s ...

The authority that oversees the majority of roads in Lincolnshire is urging you to send in your pictures and stories about their condition as part of its bid to get more funding for them from central government. Lincolnshire County Council has warned it won’t be able to afford the £12m it pooled from its reserves this financial year to replace ...

Long Sutton Market traders will have to pay more for a stall after a bid not to put prices up failed. Following a consultation this year, South Holland District Council says it’s bringing all of the market traders into the same price bracket of £7 for a stall after complaints Spalding traders were paying more to stand at its market. ...

Local councils are calling on central government to give Lincolnshire more funding. Lincolnshire County Council had its funding on roads cut by £12m last year and it’s calling for it back. The authority made up the loss from its own reserves, but says it won’t be doing so again. And it follows the South and East Lincolnshire Lincolnshire Partnership which ...

A £15m investment to create a new factory, the first of its kind, at the forefront of food technology is recommended for approval. The Naylor Farms development on land near Rangell Gate, Low Fulney, would see a facility to extract protein from plant sources.The technology would recover ingredients which can be further used within plant-based sectors including bakery, dietary supplements ...

A town could be set to net a new floodlit 3G football pitch. Holbeach United Community Sports Academy is looking to add the all-weather football pitch to its Penny Hill site. In documentation supplied with the planning application to South Holland District Council, the club says it will replace an existing grass pitch for its currently 18 affiliated teams to ...

Ambitious plans to transform a derelict town centre building have been submitted. The old sorting office in Spalding is a semi-derelict eye sore on The Crescent, but despite appearances it’s structurally sound.Plans for ten flats and ground floor retail units are with South Holland District Council.“Originally built by the Royal Mail Post Office in 1961, the building provided use as ...

An initiative to give ‘an intensive clean’ to South Holland’s towns is due to begin on Monday. South Holland District Council says it’s taking on a Christmas Clean-Up as part of an intensive 30-day cleaning programme planned across six towns and villages.  The Clean-Up will begin in Sutton Bridge, before heading to Long Sutton, Holbeach, Crowland, Spalding and Donington throughout December ...

Plans have been submitted to build up to 400 new houses in Pinchbeck by developer Ashley King. The application is for outline permission for 300 homes with a detailed submission for 100 properties at Yew’s Farm. A supporting design and access statement says the first 100 plots could be ‘rapid delivery’ to release money to fund the Spalding Western Relief ...

The creation of an adult gaming centre in the centre of Spalding has taken a step closer after the company that’s behind the bid was granted a bingo licence. Merkur Slots Ltd has been granted a licence to operate the gambling machinery in the former Dorothy Perkins store in Hall Place by South Holland District Council’s Licencing Panel following a ...

Measures to improve traffic flow in parts of Holbeach are being followed up with issues involving parking along High Street being raised as a particular issue. It was described as a ‘nightmare’ at the most recent meeting of Holbeach Parish Council.County councillor Tracey Carter told the meeting she was already working with the highways authority on a solution.“I’m already having ...

A proposed new swimming pool for Spalding looks a long way off as councillors discussed concerns over leisure provisions in the district. South Holland District Council’s Performance Monitoring Panel heard payments to operators Parkwood to subsidise the area’s leisure centres initially during the first lockdown are set to continue as usage and membership are not up to pre-pandemic levels.A ‘National ...

A council needs to get tougher over fly-tipping, it’s been claimed, after concerns were raised over a lack of action. One councillor even expressed dissatisfaction that he’d approached a fast food outlet to get CCTV evidence of one fly-tipper, only to be told by South Holland District Council there wasn’t enough evidence to progress it further.The district saw a 90 ...