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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 ...

A developer proposing homes on the site of empty industrial units in Park Lane, Donington, is to be asked to reconsider the design. South Holland District Council’s planning committee deferred a decision on the Calderdale Homes application over concerns that a proposed rear parking court could attract anti-social behaviour. Chairman Roger Gambba-Jones said: “I have experience of these parking courts and ...

Holbeach Tesco has now handed over a total of £16,500 towards the regeneration of Carter’s Park.   On Tuesday (Jan 10), Holbeach Parish Council was presented with £4,500 collected in store by staff and parish councillors. This added to a £12,000 grant by Tesco from its Bags of Help scheme in which money raised from the government’s 5p carrier bag charge is ...

Councillors have refused planning permission for an unpopular new ‘pod’ for Timpson at Spalding’s Sainsbury’s, branding it a “carbuncle”. A 16-name petition and a further 23 objections were received on the application to South Holland District council, with retailers fearing it would detrimentally impact on the town centre. Coun Chris Brewis said Springfields outlet development had already left the town ...

A boiler breakdown which has left Spalding’s indoor bowls green with no heating for more than a week is expected to be resolved today.(Friday, Jan 6) The problem at the Castle Sports Complex venue occurred on Wednesday, December 27, and the festive period meant the repair has taken longer than some would have liked. 1Life operates the leisure complex on behalf of South ...

A service to celebrate the life of a “gentleman” who lived in and loved Spalding and was a very active member of the community is to be held next week.(January 12) George Hastings died at his home on December 19, aged 88. Mr Hastings – the last mayor of Spalding Urban District Council and the first chairman of South Holland ...

A £150,000 bridge repair project will see motorists facing a 16-mile diversion. Repairs to the B1166 Gravel Causeway bridge over the River Welland, at Crowland, are due to get under way on Wednesday, January 4. Initially the five span concrete bridge, built in 1953, will be open to traffic and managed by temporary traffic lights, but a full closure to ...

A new farm shop and café is planned in Deeping St Nicholas. Vine House Farm owner Nicholas Watts is keen to invest £500,000 and take on more staff to make the business bigger and better. A keen conservationist, Mr Watts has sold goods including bird food and farm products from the premises for more than a decade. Business has steadily increased to ...

Paying for council services in South Holland is about to become quicker, easier, more varied and available at more than 30 new locations. South Holland District Council is providing more ways of paying for services like council tax, planning, licensing, rents and garden waste collections. As part of its ongoing Moving Forward strategy, flexible payment solutions are available now, with ...

A proposal for a 78-home development on Grade One agricultural land seeks to exploit a “loophole” in legislation, it has been said. Woodgate Farms Ltd has submitted the outline proposal to South Holland District Council for a field south of Roman Road in Moulton Chapel, a village of around 900 residents. The field is behind Moulton Chapel Motors, which would ...

A new scheme aimed at cracking down on street drinking and other anti-social behaviours in Spalding town centre has been launched.   A Public Spaces Protection Order (PSPO) has been set up by South Holland District Council and signs promoting the initiative are going up within the designated area.   The order has been introduced to improve the quality of ...

South Holland District Council has “no firm plans” for the two large plots of land it acquired in exchange for developing new gypsy and traveller sites.   Sites at Rose View Drive in Holbeach and Evergreen Close (off Drain Bank North)  in Spalding were both built to replace longstanding unauthorised encampments made by travellers. The cost was met by taxpayers ...

A £1.7million redevelopment of the site of the derelict Bridge Hotel at Sutton Bridge will “complement” the new marina development, a planning application states. Proposals have been put forward to build 21 flats on the site in Bridge Road, which are likely to sell for around £82,000 each, the plan said. Demolition of the existing fire-damaged building, “plagued by vandalism ...

A Spalding homeowner has hit out at a planning decision which she says has a devastating effect on her retirement property. Karen LeBoeuf was hoping the application to South Holland District Council for a single-storey rear extension and two-storey side extension next to her property in Cross Street would be turned down. However, it was approved, much to the chagrin ...

Allowing development of an agricultural field with 80 homes would be a “betrayal” of nearby residents, it has been said. Residents opposed to the proposals for land next to York Gardens, Gosberton, spoke at a parish council meeting on Monday.(Dec 12) Among them was the Rev Steve Weatherly-Barton, of nearby Welby Drive, who has submitted an objection directly to South ...

A new online campaign has been launched by South Holland District Council in an attempt to encourage people not to smoke in areas where children play. The council’s Smoke Free Code has already been supported by many schools, nurseries and play areas with dozens displaying signs designed by youngsters. Now in a bid to increase awareness the council is starting ...