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The level of debt at two councils has been revealed. The BBC’s Shared Data Unit says Lincolnshire County Council has just over £460m worth of debt.It relates to borrowing for long term financial projects, the authority’s Andrew Crookham, executive director for resources, told The Voice.“Like all local authorities, the council will often borrow money to fund large-scale projects that benefit ...

Change of use planning permission has been granted to open a portion of Moulton Park up to the public. The application unanimously voted through by South Holland District Council’s Planning Committee last week is a step closer to a long-awaited play area for the village.It does not include any play equipment and only relates to change of use for public ...

Bungalows are to be built on a former playing field in Crowland as permission was granted five years after it was first submitted. Five chalet style homes look set for the former grounds of South View Primary School near Chapel Street and Stricklands Drive.Part of the reason for the delay is that under planning laws any playing field lost is ...

Lincolnshire County Council is to look at giving £50,000 to its town centres and appointing a person to oversee them. It’s also aiming to set up a Spalding and Holbeach Local Transport Board, one of eight in the county, a report to its Environment and Economy Scrutiny Committee states.County councillors could also be given £3,000 to spend on events in ...

Council tax bills for residents across South Holland will rise by at least five per cent. Members of Lincolnshire County Council are looking to implement a budget of £639.1 million – almost six per cent more than last year, writes Local Democracy Reporter Ellis Karran.A meeting of the council’s executive discussed the budget on Tuesday, with the spending plan for ...

A transport group is calling for more to be done about speeding in and around Pinchbeck. George Scott, the chair of the Spalding and Peterborough Transport Forum, says not enough is being done in the village, particularly while more young people walk along its roads to Spalding with Two Plank Bridge still closed due to the ongoing Spalding Western Relief ...

Why bollards were removed from a narrow Spalding street is to be looked at amid a complaint vehicles are getting stuck. Measures to stop people driving along a narrow stretch of road between Palin Drive and Green Lane had been in place for around 20 years.That’s because the section is not big enough for two vehicles to pass each other ...

Parking restrictions are to be bought in on part of a Weston Hills road, despite objections from members of the public. Following a request by the local parish council, Lincolnshire County Council is placing 24-hour no waiting measures on Broadgate between the junctions with Carisbrooke Way and St John’s Road.It follows concerns staff are parking there to work for a ...

Spalding’s Argos is to move out of its Holland Market branch and into the nearby Sainsbury’s store. The shops now have the same owner and its part of a nationwide initiative to bring them under the same roof.Sainsbury’s has applied for planning permission to change the signage on the front of its own store on Holland Park to include the ...

A bid to open Moulton Park up to the public looks set to get the green light from planners. South Holland District Council is in the process of selling the majority of the site to the charity the John and Maureen Biggadike Foundation who are to open the space up for people to enjoy. The authority’s planning officers have recommended ...

A public event to discuss the proposed ‘devolution’ which includes having an elected mayor for Greater Lincolnshire will be held in Spalding later this month. It comes amid criticisms of the devolution itself.Lincolnshire County Council, which is pushing for the link up with North and North East Lincolnshire County Councils, is putting on 22 consultation events, though only one is ...

An application has been submitted to turn farm buildings into a museum and permanent home for a rescued armoured vehicle. Kennulph’s Farm on Wright’s Drive, Crowland, has applied for the change of use permission which would house the Buffalo 47 pulled from the ground in 2021.Documents submitted with the application states that the museum initially intends to be by appointment ...

South Holland Police says its found thousands of illegal cigarettes at shops in Spalding. Enforcement visits were carried out at Baltic, Warsaw and Spalding European Foodstore on the morning of Wednesday, December 20. A spokesman for South Holland Police said: “Thousands of suspected illegal cigarettes and vapes have been seized after joint enforcement visits were carried out at three shops ...

Lincolnshire councillors are outraged by the government’s decision to redirect £235 million from the scrapped northern leg of HS2 to repair roads in London. In October, Prime Minister Rishi Sunak unveiled a £36 billion plan to revamp British transport, allocating £8.3 billion for road improvements, in the wake of the HS2 line cancellation between Birmingham and Manchester, writes Local Democracy ...

A bid to build a bypass around Whaplode won’t be progressed after council officers claimed it would cost £87m to buy. Lincolnshire County Council said the benefits of the project does not justify the spend.It found that the cost would be between £45.2m and £139.7 with £87.4m ‘the most likely’.Officers also said it would cause disruption to ‘over 40 private ...

A number of families in South Holland will be in new homes in time for Christmas thanks to the district council’s £1m purchase of them. It’s bought eight affordable homes in Surfleet, a mixture of one, two, and three –bedroomed properties.  They have been allocated to households on the South Holland District Council Housing Register in accordance with the council’s Allocations ...

The owners of the Old Johnson Hospital in Spalding are refusing to engage with council officers as the authority continues to push for them to pay rates. In an update to councillors on its derelict sites policy last week, it was revealed the Valuation Office Agency (VOA) had said no to South Holland District Council’s request for the owners to ...

There are calls for youngsters to be given street art lessons as the district’s policy to encourage it was on the agenda of a recent meeting. And one councillor argued South Holland District Council could even make money on them by selling electronic NFTs (Non-Fungible Tokens).It’s a year since the authority launched its Street Art policy and the Performance Monitoring ...

After years of uncertainty Moulton Park could officially be opened to the public by the spring courtesy of a charity set up by a former miller. The John and Maureen Biggadike Foundation says it is in the process of purchasing 22 acres of the site from South Holland District Council. It was set up a year ago following the death ...

South Holland District Council has moved £300,000 from its reserves to offset a budget shortfall. An emergency meeting of its Cabinet was held on Tuesday to vote through the measure.Leader Coun Nick Worth said he’d called the meeting to be transparent after errors had been identified in the previous budgets including some government funding given that had been ‘duplicated’ in ...