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Building the Spalding Western Relief Road is more important than contributions for health and education, some councillors have argued as they passed plans for 400 associated homes last week. Others raised concerns that the road will never be completed as South Holland District Council’s Planning Committee voted through final plans for 100 homes and outline plans for 300 more to ...

Councillors say they have a glimmer of hope in their request for central government to offset the large cost of drainage boards on the area. The latest draft of South Holland District Council’s budget for the 2023/24 financial year states the internal drainage boards in the area have asked for between nine and 26 percent more than last year amid ...

A senior Lincolnshire County Councillor has said plans for new power pylons across Lincolnshire including through South Holland would “devastate the landscape”. Portfolio holder for economy and environment, Councillor Colin Davie, has backed a national campaign against the construction of 50-metre high pylons across countryside writes local democracy reporter Daniel Jaines. National Grid’s proposed £54 billion plans for Lincolnshire include plans for ...

The newly appointed ‘enviro-crime’ team will give a council’s new fly-tipping policy teeth, it’s been claimed. South Holland District Council is to adopt the Litter and Fly-Tipping Strategy along with the other two councils in the South and East Lincolnshire Councils Partnership. It was discussed by the authority’s Cabinet on Tuesday when Coun Bryan Alcock said he had concerns it ...

Plans for an already started housing development will need to go back to the drawing board after they were turned down last week. Allison Homes was asked to stop building north of Roman Road by South Holland District Council due to conditions having not been agreed. Numerous objections had been submitted over the proposal for 86 homes passed in 2021. ...

A war memorial and visitor centre will be built in Fleet after planners went against council officer recommendations and passed plans. Harold Payne has been given the go-ahead to build the memorial next to his Anglia Motel on the A17 for soldiers who have died in all conflicts. Planning officers had recommended it be refused due to the plans including ...

Parking restrictions on a South Holland trading estate are going to be implemented by the county council. Members of Lincolnshire County Council’s planning and regulation committee have backed the proposal at a meeting this week. The plan for yellow lines and restricted waiting areas on Edison Court, Pinchbeck, were first mooted by the authority in October 2021. The proposal went ...

A 43-year-old man has been jailed for a year after burgling a Pinchbeck business. Shane Boyton, of no fixed address, pleaded guilty to burglary with intent at Carpets 2 U in Creswell Close on January 29. A laptop was taken from the business along with keys to a van. The van, which contained a satnav and tools, was also stolen. ...

Three fire crews have rescued a horse out from out of Blue Gowt Lane. Firefighters from Spalding, Donington and Boston were called to Clay Drove at 1.15pm on Sunday, February 12 after the horse was spotted in water. A spokesman for Lincolnshire Fire and Rescue said: “The crews used animal rescue equipment and a farmer’s manitou to release the horse ...

Plans for a new 48MW solar farm in Holbeach Bank have been submitted to South Holland District Council. AUK PE12 Ltd wants to build the 65.5 hectare facility on land north of Roman Bank and East of Middle Marsh Road at Red House Farm. The rest of the 80 acre site would be retrained for agricultural use, writes Local Democracy ...

A suspected drink-driver didn’t stop after colliding with a lorry on an A16 roundabout, a court heard. And when police pulled over the vehicle, driver Harry Dye (34) assaulted an officer as he was beingarrested. A member of the public had dialled 999 as she followed Dye from Spalding to Sutterton on January23, witnessing near misses with oncoming traffic and ...

A repeat Holbeach drink-driver has been banned for three years after crashing in Gedney Dyke last month. A Land Rover left Roman Bank and careered through two fences before coming to rest on the driveway of a house. Prosecutor Shelley Wilson told Boston Magistrates’ Court on Wednesday that driver Joshua Swepstone (26) told police at the scene that he was ...

Lincolnshire Police is set to lose almost half its PCSOs to keep its budget balanced. Chief Constable Chris Haward outlined the changes which included ‘difficult decisions’ being taken. The force’s current cohort of 91 PCSOs will be cut to 50 and its Council Tax precept rises by £14.94. “We had planned our budget around a number of possible options, and ...

Parking restrictions on a South Holland industrial estate look set to be approved almost a year after the plan was postponed. Members of Lincolnshire County Council’s planning and regulation committee are discussing the move on Edison Court, Pinchbeck, at a meeting on Monday. The plan was first mooted in October 2021 and consultation letters were sent out in May last ...

A Holbeach residential home is putting people at risk due to poor management, unsafe medicine practices and a lack of infection prevention and control. An inspector from the Care Quality Commission returned to the Nutten Stoven Residential Home in November after concerns were outlined in a report published in September. The home can cater for up to 30 older people ...

Tributes have been paid to three members of a Gedney family who died in a road traffic collision last month. Inquests into the deaths of Paul James Carter (41), Lisa Jayne Carter (49), and Jade Channelle Mace (25), of Gedney, were opened last week by Norfolk Coroner’s Court. Norfolk Police said all three died in a collision between a white ...

Spalding bus station was branded ‘disgraceful and shameful’ as calls were made to improve it. Resident David Jones argued the least the facility off Winfrey Avenue should have was complete and up to date time tables of buses at last week’s meeting of Spalding Town Forum. “I was thinking what it’s like if you arrive in Spalding on a bus ...

A Spalding man who played a huge role in the horticulture industry locally has died aged 90. Keith Butters, who set up Butters Factory Shop on Kellett Gate, first started as a young boy grading bulbs at Van Geest Nurseries and ended up spending 27 years working with them. At the age of 21 he helped with the new banana ...

A councillor has called on everyone using Spalding’s council-owned facilities to be careful with energy usage as the share of council tax town residents pay has increased. The Spalding Special Expense is to go up for a band D property by 90p a year from £24.57 to £25.47. The rise, with more households, is projected to bring in £240,279 for ...

A Spalding group is to look at creating a permanent way to mark the coronation of King Charles III. The town forum wants to green light the release of money from South Holland District Council towards a lasting monument to the event on Saturday, May 6. And members are open to suggestions as to what it should be. At its ...