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Your opportunity in South Holland to have a say on devolution and an elected mayor for Greater Lincolnshire takes place this weekend. Lincolnshire County Council is teaming up with North and North Lincolnshire councils to create another tier of local government.The authorities say it will bring in £24m a year for 30 years as part of the government’s devolution proposals.The ...

The level of debt at two councils has been revealed. The BBC’s Shared Data Unit says Lincolnshire County Council has just over £460m worth of debt.It relates to borrowing for long term financial projects, the authority’s Andrew Crookham, executive director for resources, told The Voice.“Like all local authorities, the council will often borrow money to fund large-scale projects that benefit ...

The outgoing chief constable of Lincolnshire Police says reducing the number of PCSOs was the hardest thing he’s had to do as he looks back on three years in the role. Chris Haward joined Lincolnshire Police as Chief Constable in December 2020, taking over from Bill Skelly.In that time he has seen COVID-19 lockdown restrictions, public protests, and his officers ...

A bid to get Spalding on a local TV news weather map was part of a bid to improve the town, the lady behind it has said. Following a challenge in the pub district councillor Jan Whitbourn took it on herself to get Spalding on the BBC Look North weather map.She’s been exchanging barbs with its resident weatherman Paul Hudson ...

Change of use planning permission has been granted to open a portion of Moulton Park up to the public. The application unanimously voted through by South Holland District Council’s Planning Committee last week is a step closer to a long-awaited play area for the village.It does not include any play equipment and only relates to change of use for public ...

Bungalows are to be built on a former playing field in Crowland as permission was granted five years after it was first submitted. Five chalet style homes look set for the former grounds of South View Primary School near Chapel Street and Stricklands Drive.Part of the reason for the delay is that under planning laws any playing field lost is ...

The number of children absent from mainstream education in Lincolnshire has been highlighted in a recent report. Almost 2,000 children were logged as CME (children missing education) in 2022/23, a rise of six percent on the previous year.The report to county councillors also shows a total of 3,576 fixed penalty notices for non-attendance were handed out last year. Another rise ...

Lincolnshire County Council is to look at giving £50,000 to its town centres and appointing a person to oversee them. It’s also aiming to set up a Spalding and Holbeach Local Transport Board, one of eight in the county, a report to its Environment and Economy Scrutiny Committee states.County councillors could also be given £3,000 to spend on events in ...

Council tax bills for residents across South Holland will rise by at least five per cent. Members of Lincolnshire County Council are looking to implement a budget of £639.1 million – almost six per cent more than last year, writes Local Democracy Reporter Ellis Karran.A meeting of the council’s executive discussed the budget on Tuesday, with the spending plan for ...

Care Quality Commission reports have been published for a Spalding dentist and a care home. Both Southfield House, Woolram Wygate, and the Smile Orthodontics, Bourne Road, were awarded a rating of ‘good’.Operated by The Order of St John Care Trust, Southfield House is a residential care home for up to 32 people.“There were enough staff to meet people’s needs and ...

A derelict hotel in Sutton Bridge is back on the market a year after it was bought at auction. The landmark building has undergone no refurbishment work and the current owners haven’t registered it with the Land Registry.It was sold for around £100,000 more than the £80,000 guide price and there were high hopes that the new owners would renovate ...

A company is looking to create a special educational needs school for up to 24 pupils just outside Holbeach. Hexagon Care Services, which says it has over 30 children’s homes, has applied for change of use planning permission for the Three Chestnuts on Fen Road.The building is currently one of over 50 the company operates as a residential care home ...

A developer has been criticised for littering around its site. Stinders Homes are currently building The Meadows in Quadring.But residents had been left concerned at the state of the site over Christmas.One resident Stuart Bensberg sent in these pictures (right): “It’s been like this for a month.“It’s totally unacceptable pollution of a beauty spot and public right of way.”Stuart said ...

A transport group is calling for more to be done about speeding in and around Pinchbeck. George Scott, the chair of the Spalding and Peterborough Transport Forum, says not enough is being done in the village, particularly while more young people walk along its roads to Spalding with Two Plank Bridge still closed due to the ongoing Spalding Western Relief ...

Why bollards were removed from a narrow Spalding street is to be looked at amid a complaint vehicles are getting stuck. Measures to stop people driving along a narrow stretch of road between Palin Drive and Green Lane had been in place for around 20 years.That’s because the section is not big enough for two vehicles to pass each other ...

Parking restrictions are to be bought in on part of a Weston Hills road, despite objections from members of the public. Following a request by the local parish council, Lincolnshire County Council is placing 24-hour no waiting measures on Broadgate between the junctions with Carisbrooke Way and St John’s Road.It follows concerns staff are parking there to work for a ...

An appeal has been launched for a man wanted for robbery and recall to prison. Lincolnshire Police say Kamil Dudek is ‘thought to be still in or around the Spalding area’. Anyone with any information is asked to contact the force by calling 101 quoting occurrence 23000722817 (Robbery) / 23000727692 (Recall to prison), or by emailing DC James Wood, james.wood@lincs.police.uk, quoting ...

A car burst into flames after its brakes failed and it hit barrier last night. Spalding Fire Crew were called to London Road in the Little London area of the town shortly before 6pm last night (Tuesday, January 9). It’s not clear if anyone was injured in the incident. A spokesman for Lincolnshire Fire and Rescue said: “There was severe ...

A car went in to a ditch on the A151 at Moulton this morning (Friday, January 5). The road remained passable following the incident which took place shortly before 7am. Nobody was injured in the incident. A spokesman for Lincolnshire Police, said: “This was a single car collision in which a car left the road.”

The Lincolnshire and Nottinghamshire Air Ambulance has experienced its busiest year on record, responding to 1,771 missions in the last 12 months. The charity’s crews of pilots, doctors and paramedics responded to 541 missions in Nottinghamshire, 1,044 in Lincolnshire and the remaining 181in the surrounding counties.  Serious medical injuries accounted for 676 missions, followed by 488 road traffic incidents as ...