The Voice of Spalding and South Holland
I believe that there are times when people find it difficult to face up to what they are doing and they use mealy-mouthed euphemisms to cover the truth.
A few years ago I saw a sign as I was on my way to Morrisons.
The sign said “Pinchbeck Fields”. It was quite right. It was standing in a field in Pinchbeck.
The field was then destroyed and turned into a housing estate. It wasn’t a Pinchbeck field any longer.
Recently the sign re-appeared on the other side of the road. I read in your paper (February 24) that Phil Standen from a firm called Bellway says that his plans will transform a disused former nurseries site into an attractive new residential community.
It will be called “Pinchbeck Fields”. How ridiculous. It should be called “Pinchbeck Destruction of Fields”.
The article says there will be 96 houses, of which 24 will be designated as “affordable homes”. That leaves 72 unaffordable ones, so why build them in the first place?
What else could be done with the site? Well, after the glasshouses came down, could it not have been ploughed up and used as a field, yes, a field, with a 10ft high hawthorn hedge around it? Now, there would have been some sensitivity to the area.
Recently, you published a grumbling letter from a man who moved here from “vibrant Essex”.
He wrote a similar letter to your paper in the autumn of 2020. In both he sneered at this area.
I don’t know whether or not he moved to South Lincolnshire just to use the area to make a buck from buying and selling houses but if he did he won’t be the first to use the area that way.
Oh joy, perhaps another 96 of his type are on their way.
Frances Richardson
Surfleet
