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A haulage yard in Long Sutton could be used for a housing development. Nene Transport (Lincs) Ltd wants permission to use its Station Road site for 40 new homes. The idea is to build 36 two-storey homes and change its office block into four one-bedroom flats. A design and access statement accompanying the planning application to South Holland District Council ...

The contract to handle Spalding town centre’s festive lighting is about to go out to tender – just seven weeks before this year’s switch-on. The lights will be switched on on Friday, November 18, but as previously reported there will be no special event this year. A council spokesman said: “South Holland District Council will be looking for suppliers to ...

South Holland District Council is still trying to force the sale of the Bull and Monkie site in Spalding. The press and public were excluded from a meeting last week as councillors discussed the latest picture. Information requested by The Voice after the meeting shows that three times this year the council has sought legal advice on forcing a sale ...

Aldi has put its expansion plan for the Spalding store on show. As The Voice reported last April, the German discounter supermarket wants to extend its Winsover Road store and provide more parking spaces. Three units neighbouring the store would be demolished to make way for the extension. The expansion plan has been driven by great trading figures and increasing demand by ...

Unwanted household items found dumped in Crowland have cost the owner a £315 court bill. Kevin Cosgrove employed a man with a van to take away items including a fridge and mattresses, which were later found in Low Road (pictured). South Holland District Council’s environmental investigations officer was able to trace them to Cosgrove’s address in Whittlesey. Cosgrove appeared at ...

A rundown building in a prominent town-centre position is the subject of a conversion plan. A proposal has been put forward to turn The Bell Hotel in Holbeach’s High Street into a licensed restaurant and six apartments (three each on the first and second floors). The property, which is not listed but is in the Holbeach Conservation Area, has been bought ...

Independent shopkeepers in South Holland are invited to a special workshop aimed at helping to increase their profits. Organised by the district council in association with the Federation of Small Businesses, the free event is open to owners and staff members of independents. Subjects include ways of attracting and retaining customers by utilising shop fronts, window displays and merchandising. A ...

South Holland District Council has launched new self-service pods in the reception area of its offices in Priory Road, Spalding. They allow access to the council’s website, enabling residents to complete services including paying council tax and reporting a range of community issues. The pods have access for disabled people and can be used at any time during office opening ...

The potential level of nuisance by a heavy industrial site to a proposed housing development in Crowland is to be investigated. South Holland District Council planning members voted on August 31 to defer Wheatley Homes’ application for upto 100 homes on land either side of Harvester Way, which abuts Crowland Cranes’ site. Coun Pete Williams said the firm had chosen ...

A proposed development of 86 homes was recommended to be built 1.5 metres above the existing ground level to counter the risk of them flooding. And South Holland District Council’s planning committee has been told to expect many more similar recommendations by the Environment Agency in the future. At a meeting on August 31, some members had reservations about the eventual ...

A key council job post has been deleted from the management structure – because no one could be recruited to it on the lucrative salary being offered. The role of executive manager for commercialisation – vacant for 15 months – was one of two posts which South Holland District Council has struggled to fill, along with planning and building control ...

A mum who lost 16 babies before having a “miracle daughter” has been jailed for three years after she used two of her dead children’s identities to claim benefits. Former nurse Maria Pridmore (36) suffered 14 miscarriages, a stillbirth and the death of an infant son over a heartbreaking 13-year period until she successfully gave birth in 2012. Lincoln Crown Court heard ...

A new car sales site could be built on an “important gateway site” in Pinchbeck. EMG Motor Group wants to relocate from St John’s Road in Spalding to a more prominent position in Elsoms Way, just off the Wardentree Lane/West Marsh Road roundabout. One side of the road would be the car showroom and outdoor display area, the other would ...

A Spalding trader has again dropped an appeal against the revocation of a premises licence at the last minute. Karwan Ahmad waited until just hours before the scheduled hearing at Lincoln Magistrates’ Court on Wednesday (August 17) before stopping his action in respect of Winsover off-licence. It meant from 10am on Wednesday, the revocation came into effect and alcohol could not ...

A proposal to bring Holbeach’s two medical centres under one roof has been dropped. The “super-surgery” plan for a brownfield site in Church Street has been replaced with a proposal for homes. The original plan, which would have led to GPs from Holbeach Medical Centre in Park Road and Littlebury Medical Centre in Fishpond Lane amalgamating, was granted outline planning ...

Residents and traders are being urged to keep giving their view on controversial trial changes under way at a Holbeach car park. South Holland District Council wants to hear, by late September, all feedback on Boston Road car park hosting the town’s market and on closing one of its two entrances. The plea follows a busy public meeting in the ...

An angry driver has appealed a £50 fine issued for her car being “six inches” outside a parking zone in Spalding. Christine Hardy believes the ticket, issued in Sheep Market on August 11, was issued pettily and such behaviour is doing little to encourage people to shop in the town centre. Mrs Hardy had been shopping in Heron for about 15 ...

Residents are being given the chance to have their say over controversial trial changes at a Holbeach car park – and hear the arguments for making them from a South Holland District Council officer. Holbeach Parish Council has called a public meeting to consider the effects of relocating the market from High Street to the car park and of closing ...

Differing views by The Planning Inspectorate on a pair of new fences on opposite sides of the road are to be queried by South Holland District Council. The fences were put up last year by neighbours in Osier Road and Rutland Close in Spalding. The council rejected retrospective planning applications, telling both applicants that their fence was “an incongruous form of ...

Legislation on appealing the loss of a premises licence is again under the spotlight after a criminal shopowner abused the system to his financial advantage. Karwan Ahmad withdrew an appeal against the revocation of his licence for Baltic in Winsover Road, Spalding, less than 24 hours before it was due to be heard in court. But he had succeeded in ...