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Nine year old Annie Clough from South View Community Primary School has been chosen as the winning artist for South Holland District Council’s Chairman’s Christmas Card Competition. The Council had invited primary school pupils from across the District to send in their best festive designs and ideas for the card, which is sent out every year to partners on behalf of the council chairman. Picking ...

A family have been allowed to turn a paddock into a site for their family in Whaplode St Catherine. Whaplode Parish Council objected to the part retrospective planning application for an allocated travellers site only for the family of applicants Mr and Mrs Smith at Hurdletree Bank, claiming the site was ‘unsustainable’. Despite there being no objections from the public, ...

Residents using larger trailers and vans under two metres high vans can apply for a permit to use Lincolnshire tips, including Spalding’s, from next week. From December 15, those wishing to use such a vehicle for a visit to the Household Waste Recycling Centres will be able to gain the permit which will allow them one visit per month, Lincolnshire ...

South Holland residents who serve as Special Constables could be eligible for a 25 per cent discount on their council tax bill. Proposals due to go before the council’s cabinet on Tuesday outline the plans. “The contribution Special Constables make in supporting their regular colleagues is invaluable; during the 12 months to the end of May 2020 the Special Constabulary ...

A proposed Christmas market in Spalding will not now go ahead this year over COVID-19 safety concerns. The market was initially due to happen in November and had then been pencilled in for December 19 and 20. But South Holland District Council has announced the event can’t take place this year. A South Holland District Council spokesperson, said: “It is ...

Measures that work in Spalding and Holbeach to improve the town centres will be rolled out to other parts of South Holland it’s been said amid worries other towns in the area have been forgotten. While Town Improvement plans have been drawn up for those two towns, Coun Chris Brewis, South Holland District Council ward member for Sutton Bridge, has ...

Fly-tippers who dump rubbish around South Holland should have their cars ‘crushed on telly,’ according to the leader of South Holland District Council. Members of the council were discussing the recent prosecution of a West Pinchbeck man for fly-tipping in Surfleet. He was fined £200.Coun Chris Brewis said there needed to be some ‘serious dialogue’ with other district councils in ...

Plans to demolish the Cemetery Chapel in Whaplode have moved a step closer.But the building (pictured) is being dismantled and rebuilt in the village to be used as a house.A formal notice of intention has been posted at the site by the parish council which owns it.It is the latest move in a long-running battle over the building which has ...

The future of service sharing between South Holland and Breckland district councils is under review. A report which went before South Holland’s full council outlines a three-phase strategic review.The preferred option for the future should be identified by January next year and implemented by March.New Head of Paid Service Nathan Elvery has also been appointed as Strategic Advisor and within ...

Holbeach Parish Council is asking local residents for their views on two potential changes to the town centre. Residents are being asked whether they would prefer the High Street to have restricted access times or traffic calming measures.It follows parish councillors expressing concerns over early plans for the future of the centre of the town with a bid of £4m ...

Spalding businesses are being invited to provide financial and physical help to make the town centre better while a survey of residents is set to be launched. The latest meeting of the Spalding Town Centre Improvement Steering Group met last Monday to discuss potential improvements for the town. It followed a discussion on the Town Centre Improvement Plan, which includes ...

South Holland is seeing a ‘huge demand’ in requests to help those facing being left without a home amid a more than 150 per cent increase in Universal Credit claimants. The extent of homelessness in the area was provided by South Holland District Council’s Housing Services Manager Jason King to a joint meeting of the authority’s Performance Monitoring and Policy ...

The latest round of grants available to South Holland businesses who have been forced to close due to COVID-19 has been launched. The Local Restrictions Support Grant is the second round of government funding to help businesses through COVID-19 restrictions and is once again being metered out by South Holland District Council. Businesses with a rateable value of £15,000 or ...

It’s hoped plans for a long-awaited new park in Moulton will take a step nearer to completion early next year. South Holland District Council announced plans for the 23-acre site off Bell Lane last March which is set to include a children’s play area and spot for dog owners to let pets off their leads. An accompanying six to ten ...

Closing streets outside schools and roads regularly used as rat runs are measures being considered as part of the latest grant funding to be awarded to promote cycling and walking in Lincolnshire. As part of the second round of the government’s Active Travel fund, Lincolnshire County Council has been given £799,000 to be used to give people more opportunities to ...

Six affordable homes are to be built on the edge of Long Sutton despite planning officers recommending they should be refused. It was the third time the application by Proctor Bros for land on St James Road adjacent to Silverwood Garden Centre in the area known as Sutton Crosses has come before South Holland District Council’s Planning Committee after previously ...

Planning permission has been granted to build two new retail units in Donington, despite parish council opposition. The shops for commercial retail will be built on the corner of the A52 Bicker Road and Church Street with car parking for 34 vehicles. The site is currently a van sales firm and asbestos removal company. The meeting held last night (Thursday) ...

A development of 42 affordable homes is to be built off Cowbit Road in Spalding. Minister Property Group were last night (Thursday) given permission to build the homes on the former Loxmill Farm site. In September South Holland District Council’s Planning Committee deferred a decision on the application amid concerns that there was no park for young people. But that’s ...

Banning shops from selling single cans and high alcohol volume beer and cider are measures being called for by police. They were part of steps Lincolnshire Police requested be taken as part of South Holland District Council’s revised Licensing Act Statement of Principles. The document needs to be renewed by January and police have asked the council to include further ...

The next set of preparatory works for the northerly section of the Spalding Western Relief Road is due to start tomorrow (Tuesday). Vegetation clearance along the B1356 Spalding Road near Pinchbeck will begin on Tuesday, November 10. The works, which are for section five of the project, are expected to last for up to three weeks, Monday to Friday from ...