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Highways officers working on improving Spalding’s traffic flow have been urged to consider what the town was like when traffic lights were switched off. Spalding Town Forum chairman George Aley and Spalding Wygate district councillor Roger Gambba-Jones fondly remember when traffic management was suspended during work on the Swan Street area a few years ago. Lincolnshire County Council’s senior project ...

The controversial Bull and Monkie site in Spalding is to be cleaned up after all – but not by the property owner. South Holland District Council says it will pay a contractor to do the work and then recharge the cost to the owner. Notice was served upon Crispen Holdings last month to tidy up the Churchgate site. The 21-day order ...

The latest winners in South Holland District Council’s Green Bag Lottery have been announced. Winning £100 for demonstrating good recycling habits are: Mrs S Townsend (Quadring) Mr B Dixon-Jones (Crowland) Miss P Dawson (Sutton Bridge) Mrs K Marlow (Spalding) The four will go into a draw to win a further £1,000. For details of the scheme visit www.greenbaglottery.co.uk

By South Holland District Council waste and recycling officer Laura Simpkins The first two weeks of my rubbish challenge are going well, although it hasn’t always been easy with waste related decisions proving difficult at times. This fortnight I have focused on reducing food waste. This is something simple that every household can do. Even though I thought I was ...

Firefighters across the country have announced a significant escalation of strike action, with four days of strikes starting on Friday (Oct 31). The strikes will run over the weekend when many people will be holding fireworks celebrations – historically one of the busiest times of the year for fire crews. However, Lincolnshire Fire and Rescue bosses are reassuring the public that emergency ...

Smokers at Spalding’s bingo hall could soon have a covered outside canopy. The proposal is part of a planned makeover of The Regent Club in Westlode Street, including new signage at the front. The 5m long timber decking area would have a polycarbonate roof and two high level electric wall mount heaters. It would be at ground level on the ...

South Holland District Council narrowly missed out on a Spalding town centre yard, when it sold at auction on Tuesday for £875,000. The 1.5 acre site in St Thomas’s Road is currently used by trade counters Plumb Center and Parts Center, and building supplies firm Gibbs and Dandy. The plot adjoins Victoria Street car park, which is owned by the ...

South Holland District Council leader Gary Porter has dismissed suggestions that he is ready to leave his role. Coun Porter (pictured), who is also vice-chairman of the Local Government Association and chairman of the Conservative Councillors’ Association, was rumoured to be lined up for a more advanced political position. However, the leader of the Tory-controlled local authority and St Mary’s ...

Voice readers are broadly split 50/50 on whether new-build or refurbishment is the way forward for Spalding’s Castle Sports Complex, a survey has shown. South Holland district councillors and top officers are considering the leisure centre’s future provision, with the cost of a new-build put at more than £20million by leader Coun Gary Porter. A questionnaire in last week’s edition ...

Gedney might not have too many links to the Middle East but it could soon be supplying birds of prey reared in the village. And if a planning application to South Holland District Council is successful, it’s claimed that it could help reduce the frequency of birds being taken from the wild in Asia. The man behind the plan is ...

Five nights of resurfacing work on roads in Holbeach begin on Monday (October 20). The work will be carried out from 7pm-6am each day. During this time side roads Hurn Road and Foxes Low Road will be closed at the A17, which will have a convoy system in place. Satish Shah, head of Highways at Lincolnshire County Council, said: “We’ve scheduled ...

The UK Independence Party says it will have several candidates going for seats on South Holland District Council next year. It follows news that Spalding pub landlord Pete Williams is hoping to be the first member to represent the party on the council next May. However, the chairman of UKIP South Holland and Deepings cheekily predicted that The Punchbowl owner ...

The bill for Spalding’s proposed relief road is expected to be £100million. The Western Relief Road will run between Spalding Common and Spalding Road in Pinchbeck, bisecting Horseshoe Road and Bourne Road. It is designed to alleviate town centre traffic congestion. The cost of the road includes the construction of three bridges – two crossing the railway line and another over ...

Plans for 50 new homes in Crowland are set for outline approval by district councillors on Wednesday (Oct 22). Ashley King Developments Ltd, of Holbeach, wants to build off Peterborough Road. South Holland’s planning committee will also look again at an application for 39 homes at The Bull Hotel in Long Sutton’s Market Place. Officers recommend that completion of hotel ...

Residents are to be asked for ideas where a further £90million a year can be shaved from council spending. Lincolnshire County Council has warned that the need to make the huge annual saving could start to impact services as operating costs have been cut to the bone. The challenge has arisen after further reductions in the council’s Government funding and ...

Fresh projects that will improve, promote and attract visitors to Spalding town centre have a chance to apply for a slice of £59,500 funding. South Holland District Council has that amount left from a Springfields S106 pot. This was money provided by the developer of Springfields as part of a planning condition when permission was granted more than ten years ...

Top council officers have been tasked with the next stage of a review into the future of Spalding’s Castle Sports Complex. It comes after a leisure task group consisting of eight South Holland district councillors reported to cabinet on Tuesday after visits to five new-build and refurbished centres. One recommendation was £20,500 be provided to enable a full consultation exercise ...

Nick Kendrick works as a health and safety officer for Compass Point Business Services (East Coast) Limited, a back office service of South Holland District Council. Nick says each week brings different challenges – no two weeks are ever the same. “I see it as my duty to dispel the myths of ‘elf and safety’ and make sure that the ...

A new dance studio in Low Fulney is a step closer to receiving planning permission. Spalding School of Dance currently rents a base in Horseshoe Road, and wants to relocate to purpose-built premises in Rangell Gate, next to the home of school principal Claire Patman. The Environment Agency had objected to the original application due to a perceived flood risk ...

Almost a quarter of a million pounds in debts to South Holland District Council has been written off in this financial year alone. The £240,186.29 is made up of council tax and business rates plus former tenant arrears and housing benefit overpayments. However, the total is just a tiny percentage of the overall amount for which the council is responsible ...