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Moving a “problem” footbridge a short way up the railway line could ease congestion at a Spalding level crossing. The suggestion to relocate the footbridge to Winsover Road was made at a Spalding Town Forum meeting (June 17). The structure, which runs between St John’s Road and Green Lane, and its surroundings have consistently been plagued with litter, fly-tipping and other ...

A decision will be made next month on whether plans to cut county library services will be subjected to a second judicial review. A judge will consider an application by campaigners for a judicial review on July 21 and 22. It will be the second time the plans to close a number of libraries, cut hours at others and hand ...

Stretches of the A17 and A16 will be closed in July for overnight surface dressing work. Lincolnshire County Council will carry out a programme of maintenance between 7pm and 7am from Sunday, July 12 to Tuesday, July 28. Convoy working will take place from July 18 to July 24 at: A17 – Holbeach – between Holbeach roundabout and Foxes Low Road ...

War veterans, councillors and other dignitaries gathered at South Holland District Council’s headquarters on Monday (June 22) for a special flag-raising ceremony in support of Armed Forces Day. Council chairman Francis Biggadike raised a flag at 10.30am. Watching were members of Spalding branch of the Royal British Legion, South Holland councillors and members of the public. Coun Biggadike made a short speech and urged everyone to ...

Lincolnshire County Council’s executive member for highways, transport and IT is the guest speaker at Spalding and District Area Chamber of Commerce’s members’ annual meeting. Coun Richard Davies will give an update to ongoing improvements to infrastructure in Spalding and South Holland, including road networks and superfast broadband. He is also chairman of the Lincolnshire Strategic Transport Board, which seeks to ...

by Jess Horn, Community development officer at South Holland District Council Would you like to learn something new by improving your cooking skills or growing your own food? If so, then you may be interested in programme run by The South Holland Community Development team called the Kitchen Garden Project. We organise cooking classes and provide community growing spaces with ...

A new campaign has been launched to rid South Holland streets of dog fouling. South Holland District Council has joined up with national environmental charity Keep Britain Tidy to launch the new “We’re watching you” campaign aimed at dog walkers who don’t pick up after their dogs. Officers will soon roll out a small number of signs at carefully selected ...

A clear message emerged from the second annual Spalding Cycling Forum – little improvements can be achieved without funding being channelled here. Delegates at the event organised by cycling action group Pedals agreed that it was all very well there being national strategies, but money was required to put them into action. Furthermore, places like Spalding which demonstrate a willing ...

A Spalding district councillor is demanding that Network Rail managers come to town to explain persistent problems with the line through South Holland. Coun George Aley says the public deserves to hear first-hand what the issues are and what the company responsible for the rail network is doing about it. Instances of the barriers at Mill Green, Park Road and ...

A 15-year-old girl accused of murder later admitted to striking the victim over the head with a metal pole, a jury was told on Tuesday (June 16). The girl – one of six teenagers on trial accused of the murder of Spalding man Warren Free – allegedly made the admission to her own sister shortly before she handed herself in to police. ...

Children’s play areas across the district have been spruced up by council workers in time for summer. As part of  the district council’s Pride in South Holland campaign, play equipment at nine sites has been given a fresh coat of paint. The newly-painted play areas in Spalding include Goodfellows playing field, Park Close playing field, Thames Road and Fern Park. ...

Long Sutton and Sutton Bridge are not included in the upgraded CCTV scheme going live across South Holland shortly. Neither town will have coverage from South Holland District Council’s £108,475 scheme, but there is the ability to join at a later stage. Both parish councils say they are yet to receive the assurances they require to make a commitment. It ...

Three serious collisions on the A16 between Spalding and Crowland in recent days were not linked to any issues with the road, it has been claimed. John Siddle, of Lincolnshire Road Safety Partnership, revealed there were “very different reasons” behind the incidents – and none involved the road itself. “People are linking them together because they happened fairly close to ...

Three recently-built council housing developments have been nominated for prestigious awards. Homes in Wrights Lane in Sutton Bridge, Stonegate in Cowbit and Millfield Gardens in Crowland are in the running to win accolades in this year’s Local Authority Building Control (LABC) Building Excellence Awards for the East Midlands. The homes, which were all built recently by South Holland District Council ...

Better images, better results – that’s the pledge coming with South Holland’s £108,475 upgraded CCTV system. The first camera in Spalding has completed testing and the other 16 cameras in the town will be rolled out from Monday (June 15). They are all due to be operational by the end of this month, at which point four new cameras in ...

These flags depicting images of Spalding and Sutton Bridge have been created to be part of the Magna Carta 800 celebrations. The flags will take part in events to mark the anniversary before being paraded at Lincoln Castle on Saturday (June 13), where they will be displayed on the castle walls. Twenty flags have been created by two artists working ...

Three organisations are being invited to bid to take on the running of Lincolnshire’s library services. Lincolnshire County Council is currently looking for an external organisation to potentially deliver library services on its behalf. Six initial applications were received last month, and, following assessment, three organisations have now been invited to submit a detailed bid. The organisations are: Greenwich Leisure ...

A Cowbit couple have successfully appealed a decision to refuse planning permission for an extension. South Holland District Council told Mr and Mrs D Starr, of 16 Barrier Bank, that the proposed first-floor extension and alterations to a chalet bungalow was “tantamount to a new dwelling” and “represented an excessively large form of overdevelopment”. However, a planning inspector ruled that ...

Volunteers turned out in droves to protest against funding cuts that could see 560 vulnerable families lose vital support services. Lincolnshire County Council has announced that it will be cutting all of its £435,000 funding to eight Home-Start schemes across the county from October 1. Volunteers and supporters of the charities demonstrated outside the council offices on Friday. Mary Hutson, ...

South Holland District Council leader Gary Porter has been made chairman of Local Government Association. Coun Porter, who is the Conservative Group leader on the association, was unopposed for the coveted role. The leadership board provides direction and oversees the work of the LGA, which is a politically-led, cross-party organisation that works on behalf of councils to ensure local government ...