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The premises licence for The Chequers Hotel in Holbeach has been revoked by South Holland District Council. A panel of councillors presented with evidence of fraud and smuggling came to the conclusion that “those running the premises have little or no regard for the authorities”. The premises licence has been held by The Chequers Hotel Ltd since June 2009. Neither of the ...

Council tax looks set to rise by at least £50 on average in South Holland from April. Lincolnshire County Council is recommending to push forward with plans for a 3.95 per cent increase in  its portion of the bill, equivalent to a £45 increase for a band D property. South Holland District Council has planned a £5 annual increase in ...

Photographs taken at Castle Sports Complex swimming pool show that it is in urgent need of a deep clean, says an angry user and Voice reader. The pictures, which show mould and grime in changing room and shower areas, are said to have been taken four weeks ago. South Holland District Council says 1Life, which manages the leisure centre on behalf ...

Residents in Spalding are to be surveyed on whether they would like a town council. Spalding is not parished and, therefore, does not have a town council, but South Holland District Council’s transformation programme, Moving Forward, includes a pledge to investigate if there is an appetite to have one. Spalding Town Forum has district councillors and representatives of community bodies ...

A petition launched in Spalding calling for streetlights to be switched back on across Lincolnshire has more than 200 signatures. Signatories are stating they feel vulnerable and anxious and fear for the safety of road users, cyclists and the frail. The roll-out of a countywide money-saving programme to switch off streetlights in many areas between midnight and 6am recently reached ...

Residents in Lincolnshire will be asked for their views on adopting a unitary system of local governance – potentially saving £150million in the first five years. The two-tier system that currently exists in Lincolnshire comprises one county council and seven district councils. All eight would be abolished under the proposal and a new, single one formed. Leader of Lincolnshire County ...

A huge Spalding landmark is finally to be repainted later this year. Anglian Water has confirmed it will soon start work on sprucing up Chatterton Tower. Repainting of the building in Winfrey Avenue was the subject of a 2,000-signature petition in 2010, in a campaign spearheaded by Spalding Castle district councillor Gary Taylor and clean-up campaigner Sandra White, who has since left the town. ...

The premises licence for The Chequers Hotel in Holbeach has been revoked by South Holland District Council. A panel holding a hearing on Thursday (Jan 19), which was presented with evidence of fraud and smuggling, came to the conclusion that “those running the premises have little or no regard for the authorities”. The premises licence has been held by The Chequers Hotel Ltd ...

Trustees at Holbeach Hospital are pressing ahead with plans for an eight-bed expansion of the site. An application for planning permission has been submitted to South Holland District Council and, if approved, there is a hope the extension could be in use by the beginning of next year. The extension is expected to cost £600,000 to £700,000 and may create ...

More than a quarter of a million pounds in uncollected debts has been written off by South Holland District Council. The council’s cabinet agreed to write off debts totalling £264,994.37, which have “no realistic prospects of recovery,” at a meeting on January 10. A council spokesman said: “The council is responsible for the collection of over £85million in revenue in ...

Concerns have been raised since a roll-out in South Holland of a scheme to turn streetlights off between midnight and 6am, but no u-turns are imminent. There has been significant comment, especially on social media, from people who fear crime may increase due to the Lincolnshire County Council money-saving changes. And calls have been made for streetlights to come on ...

South Holland District Council has received very little feedback on its draft budget ahead of the public consultation period finishing on Sunday.(Jan 22) The council says it wants to hear views on its 2017/18 spending and income plans from as many residents and businesses as possible. As reported in The Voice (January 19), the budget includes £2.7million earmarked to transform the ...

South Holland District Council has earmarked £2.7million to create a community hub at its Spalding headquarters. The figure is the maximum amount for the possible redevelopment of the Priory Road offices, starting as soon as this year. The council released no information on the scheme before launching a public consultation on its 2017/18 budget last Friday (Jan 13), asking residents ...

Lincolnshire County Council says it has no specific plans for the current library building in Church Street when it becomes vacant in February 2017. A spokesman said: “We will look at alternative uses by other council services. If it’s not needed by the council, we will explore other options such as selling or leasing the building.” The library will move ...

A new executive director of commercialisation for South Holland District Council will start on Monday.(Jan 23) Christine Marshall joins the shared management team for South Holland and Breckland district councils. She trained and qualified as a chartered accountant at Peterborough City Council, specialising in housing and systems accounting. Christine has also been head of finance and IT at Boston Borough Council ...

Residents are being asked to have their say on a proposal to prepare a neighbourhood plan for Surfleet. Surfleet Parish Council has applied to South Holland District Council to designate its parish area as a neighbourhood area. The district council said: “Neighbourhood planning offers communities the opportunity to shape future development by creating new policies which are used in determining ...

Moves that will reduce the amount of discount available to those who get help to pay their council tax look set to go ahead. Following a public consultation, South Holland District Council’s cabinet agreed to push ahead with a range of measures that could see a reduction in council tax support expenditure of around £187,000. A report before last Tuesday’s ...

The future of a plan for another anaerobic digestion (AD) plant in South Holland is now in the hands of Sajid Javid MP, Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government. Planning committee councillors granted permission for Andrew Branton’s application for land south of Counter Drain Drove in Tongue End, but it is now subject to a call-in procedure. The ...

Permission has been granted for a new care home on the site of the former Goodfellow’s School in Spalding. Country Court Care made adjustments to plans for a three-storey building on the Spalding Common site, reducing it from 61 bedrooms to 60 after South Holland District Council refused permission in June last year. Coun Roger Gambba-Jones, chairman of the planning ...

Spalding’s cycle action group fears that a proposed housing development on council land could scupper hopes for future improvements to a footbridge. Pedals wants Steppingstone Bridge, which crosses the railway line and links Kings Road with Park Road, to become step-free so that a wider range of people could benefit from it. The applicant is Welland Homes, South Holland District ...