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A controversial mobile home may be allowed to remain in use if it is raised six feet off the ground in the same way as 12 others already accepted nearby. Applicant Sarah Smith has been embroiled in a long-running dispute with South Holland District Council over the home in Akita Place, Clay Lake, Spalding. She told a meeting of the ...

Planning permission has been granted for 188 new homes in Holbeach. After an hour-long debate by South Holland District Council’s planning committee on Wednesday (May 31), members agreed 12-2 in favour of King Bros (Butchers) Ltd’s proposal for an 8.4 hectare site off the town end of Damgate. Councillors were generally pleased with the plan in terms of layout, density and ...

Five months after the introduction of an order to crack down on anti-social behaviour in Spalding town centre not a single ticket has been issued – but officials say that’s a positive sign.   Lincolnshire Police and South Holland District Council have said people are complying on request with the Public Spaces Protection Order (PSPO) launched in December.   New ...

A controversial planning application for 188 homes on greenfield land in Damgate, Holbeach, is recommended for approval next week.   South Holland’s planning committee has been advised any adverse impacts of the King Bros (Butchers) Ltd plan would not outweigh the benefits of delivering homes at the site, which will lead to contributions of £1.048m towards education and £83,472 for ...

Eddy Poll capped his return to Lincolnshire County Council by being reappointed to the executive. Coun Poll, who won the Spalding East seat earlier this month, has been named portfolio holder for commercial and environmental management. He was deputy leader of the council when he lost his seat in 2013 to UKIP candidate Richard Fairman, who was soundly beaten into second ...

The owners of a Spalding care home have appeared in court accused of breaching health and safety regulations following alleged incidents involving residents.     Apex Care Ltd face three charges of failing to carry out the provision of residential care in a way that ensured the safety of residents was not put at risk.     The charges, brought ...

South Holland’s towns and villages will become a “weed-infested wilderness” if Lincolnshire County Council doesn’t backtrack on a money-saving decision to stop cutting grass verges. The council announced last year it was to end routine cutting of verges in built-up areas from this April and with summer growth now in full swing the result is starting to become clear. Retired ...

Long Sutton Parish Council has expressed its “extreme disappointment” at the lack of progress on The Bull Hotel project and its “sorry state”. It’s understood that Korvin Developments Ltd has insufficient funds for further work but director Jan Von Draczek has given permission for tidying of the site by others. Last week The Voice reported on a community effort spearheaded ...

Spalding’s Pinchbeck Road has reopened to motorists after an emergency closure to repair dips in the road – but the biggest of them remains. A section of the road outside Taylors Vauxhall is still cordoned off with barriers, whilst dips further up the road have been filled in by Lincolnshire County Council. Anglian Water has carried out a further sewer ...

A £4.8million highways improvement scheme at Peppermint Junction in Holbeach is under way. British construction firm Eurovia UK is installing a new, three-arm roundabout at the current A17/A151 junction, as well as a new four-arm roundabout on the A151. Work is expected to complete by spring 2018. Narrowed lane widths and reduced speed limits to 30mph on the A17 and ...

Residents in South Holland have until 5pm on Monday (May 22) to have their say on the publication version of the South East Lincolnshire Local Plan. The new Local Plan for South East Lincolnshire (the areas of Boston Borough Council and South Holland District Council) has been prepared to guide development and use of land in the area up until ...

The Long Sutton community is pulling together to make improvements to The Bull Hotel site. It comes after communications between South Holland District Council and the owner dried up with no improvements to concerns raised over safety and security. Now district councillor Laura Eldridge has launched a £5,000 appeal to fund the tidy-up and Long Sutton and District Civic Society ...

Crowland Cranes wants to extend its site into an adjoining field in a move expected to create six jobs. The new area, to be used as a crane storage and demonstration area, will be accessed via the existing entrance to the Crease Drove business. A design and access statement, submitted with a planning application to South Holland District Council, said: ...

Councillors have resolved to use whatever means they can to recover £20,000 invested in cleaning up the Bull and Monkie site in Spalding. South Holland District Council’s cabinet discussed the issue in private on Tuesday (May 9). After the meeting, Coun Roger Gambba-Jones said: “Fellow cabinet members endorsed our proposal to continue to pursue the recovery of monies that have ...

Spalding Volunteer Centre has moved to Tonic Health’s premises in Westlode Street (behind Job CentrePlus). The centre, run by Lincolnshire Community and Voluntary Service (LCVS), provides help and advice regarding all aspects of volunteering – including help to find opportunities across South Holland. It was previously based at South Holland District Council’s offices in Priory Road. LCVS chief executive David Fannin said: ...

New roles for up to six apprentices with South Holland District Council look set to be created following a push from Government. Government guidance is that local authorities should have 2.3 per cent of their workforce as apprentices and South Holland District Council is working to develop a scheme. An apprenticeship levy will be imposed from the end of the ...

Gedney Parish Council insists that grant funding for its new children’s play was obtained lawfully and the vast majority of villagers are pleased with the facility. It comes after a parishioner complained to The Voice about the process by which the equipment was bought for the village green. They claimed that as the land was not registered, the £7,000 funding ...

The local UKIP branch says its General Election campaign for the South Holland and The Deepings constituency will be “very nominal”.   Just two years after its candidate David Parsons came second to Conservative Eurosceptic John Hayes, only a “paper” candidate will be fielded on Thursday, June 8. Instead, the local branch will lend its support to UKIP leader Paul ...

The Conservative Party now have seven of the nine South Holland seats on Lincolnshire County Council.   Thursday’s (May 4) elections saw the Tories take two further divisions in the district.   The other two seats at County Hall were retained by Chris Brewis (The Suttons) and Angela Newton (Spalding West), who scraped home by 50 votes ahead of Tory ...

“We are not prepared to tolerate the current situation,” a councillor has insisted ten years after the closure of a pub that has become an eyesore and drain on public funds. South Holland District Council’s cabinet is to discuss in private what has been achieved to date regarding the Bull and Monkie site, in Churchgate, Spalding, and possible next steps, ...